About the position
Costco IT is responsible for the technical future of Costco Wholesale, the third largest retailer in the world with wholesale operations in fourteen countries. Despite our size and explosive international expansion, we continue to provide a family, employee centric atmosphere in which our employees thrive and succeed. This is an environment unlike anything in the high-tech world and the secret of Costco's success is its culture. The value Costco puts on its employees is well documented in articles from a variety of publishers including Bloomberg and Forbes. Our employees and our members come FIRST. Costco is well known for its generosity and community service and has won many awards for its philanthropy. The company joins with its employees to take an active role in volunteering by sponsoring many opportunities to help others. Come join the Costco Wholesale IT family. Costco IT is a dynamic, fast-paced environment, working through exciting transformation efforts. We are building the next generation retail environment where you will be surrounded by dedicated and highly professional employees. Software Engineers perform development work across the technology stack (both front-end/back-end expertise). They are versatile in how they can add value, demonstrating the ability to manage the completion of projects that involve databases, backend services, or the development of front-end applications. They should be able to demonstrate a strong understanding of emerging technologies to support the development of new solutions. Software Engineers understand the full technology stack and underlying applications, services, and databases in order to ensure optimal performance. The Software Engineering SRE team responsibilities include ensuring the availability, scalability, and performance of our critical systems. The Software Engineer manages the development principles, methodologies, and tools to design, implement, and maintain reliable infrastructure and automation solutions. The successful candidate will have the ability to bridge the gap between development and operations and will be instrumental in driving continuous improvement and innovation. The Software Engineer SRE Global Digital Experience team understands the full technology stack and underlying applications, services, and databases in order to ensure optimal performance. This role will also be directly responsible for designing and building modern user interface components to enhance our member experience over a wide variety of digital touchpoints delivering SRE capabilities, creating delightful user experiences for our members, and maintaining them through functional improvement, documentation, profiling, and front-end performance enhancements.
Responsibilities
- Develops the conceptual systems architecture design and the supporting technologies needed to enable new and/or enhanced functionality within a given product/application.
- Supports release planning activities in conjunction with Product Owners and teams.
- Identifies high level requirements to support the definition and refinement of a robust testing strategy.
- Supports the Product Owner with the identification and definition of enablers/work items to support the architectural runway of a given product/application.
- Defines the non-functional requirements (e.g., performance, security, resiliency, etc.) which support the development of epics and user stories aligned to a value stream.
- Identifies technical dependencies across several product/application teams to support the implementation of new or enhanced functionality.
- Performs development, optimization, and automation activities to support the implementation of a product/application.
- Develops and implements front-end architecture to support user interface concepts.
- Increases proficiency and understanding of relational and non-relational databases, distributed application architectures, user interfaces and user experience, quality assurance, security concerns, and business value creation.
- Drives engineering best practices to deliver higher quality and scalable solutions.
- Provides the team with the development strategy, solution recommendations, and estimates for a given product/application.
- Participates in scrum ceremonies (sprint planning, retrospective, showcases/demos, stand-ups, backlog refinement, etc.).
- Creates and executes unit tests which validate the code changes made to support the implementation of a user story.
- Uses test driven development (TDD) practices to assist with the detection/recognition of software defects early in the development process.
- Estimates, plans, and manages all implementation tasks and reports on development progress.
- Designs, builds, debugs, optimizes and implements solutions in approved tool sets and databases.
- Develops high quality, efficient and fault tolerant software.
- Supports, extends and builds automated CI and CD pipelines.
- Designs and delivers DevSecOps automation for app deployment and testing.
- Uses APM/monitoring tools such as Dynatrace/Splunk and browser tools to perform request purepath/waterfall analysis to identify bottlenecks and suggest improvements.
- Participates in the development and documentation of department standards and best practices, and mentors' junior engineers.
- Identifies deficiencies within a product/application's code base and identifies opportunities to improve overall code quality.
- Collaborates with team members (e.g., Systems Architects, Systems Analysts) to define project specifications and release documentation for all phases of the product development cycle from product definition to design, through implementation.
- Conducts peer code reviews for the software changes made by other engineers within a team.
- Promotes and supports a culture of compliance, risk avoidance/mitigation, and corporate accountability throughout the organization through technical leadership.
- Provides leadership/mentoring to team members; implements development efficiencies; creates appropriate documentation; drives operational efficiencies and technical growth within the team; and supports the release model.
- Optimizes team efficiency and performance through high level technical direction.
- Provides technical leadership in implementation of applications, strategic planning sessions, documentation of requirements, tool implementation, database query languages, and programming languages.
- Assists in management and operation of site reliability functions related to Costco's SAP Commerce Solution.
- Develops, establishes, and enforces policies, standards, and guidelines for site reliability.
- Identifies, designs, develops, and deploys tools and processes to monitor, maintain, and report site performance and availability.
- Tracks system performance, capacity, and use experience to create effective strategies for maintaining and improving system performance and availability.
- Uses communication and documentation tools (Jira, BitBucket, Bamboo, Jenkins, etc.) to communicate and coordinate with other team members.
- Applies technical expertise to lead the resolution of system issues related to system performance, availability, and capacity.
- Contributes to and maintains an in-depth understanding of the Non-Production and Production architectures, including the hosted server environments, deployed applications, integrated packages, and 3rd party operational tools.
- Works with the design, development, QA, technical operations teams, as well as other stakeholders, to maintain the performance, availability, and integrity of Costco's SAP Commerce solution.
- Communicates effectively with project teams and other participants in ongoing system development to identify and resolve issues, explain solutions, and provide technical expertise.
Requirements
- 7+ years' previous experience working as a React.js developer.
- 7+ years' experience in React.js, HTML, CSS3.
- Vast experience in JavaScript and React concepts, advanced front-end coding skills, and an expert level understanding of progressive web applications.
- Extensive experience on front-end development and demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
- Passion for supporting, collaborating, and coaching engineering teams.
- Comfortable driving code reviews and operating as anointed approver.
- Proficiency with building responsive layouts using CSS and CSS-precompilation.
- Strong understanding of cross-browser compatibility.
- Ability to integrate 3rd party APIs and a strong understanding of REST and GraphQL patterns.
- Proficiency with state and side effect management within client-side applications (Redux and Redux Sagas preferred).
- Knowledge in JavaScript ES6+ features, such as classes, arrow functions, template literals, rest/spread operators, promises, and async/await.
- Proficiency with client-side application bundling and optimization.
- Strong understanding of CSS fundamentals, accessible patterns, component design and functional programming, and data structures.
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills; strong interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills; strong relationship builder in cross-functional teams.
- Experience with browser-based debugging and performance testing software.
- Experience refactoring code and algorithms for improved performance and robustness.
- Self-motivated with a positive, can-do attitude.
- Scheduling flexibility to meet the needs of the business, including weekends, holidays, and a rotational on call basis as required.
Nice-to-haves
- Degree or equivalent education (Computer Science or related field).
- Experience working in a retail ecommerce environment.
- Understanding of WCAG 2.1 AA principles, patterns, and screen reader testing.
- Experience working on design systems building highly composable, reusable components.
- Driven performance analysis, and understanding of large-scale application infrastructure and dependencies.
- Experience translating Figma design mockups and prototypes into working applications.
- Knowledge of unit testing frameworks, including Jest and React Testing Library.
- Experience working with serverless platforms on Azure or GCP.
- Familiarity with design patterns and microservices-based architecture patterns.
- Experience with writing complex Graphql, Redis, MongoDB or similar database queries.
- Experience with MUI v5 components.
- Experience working with Storybook.js and Chromatic.
- Experience with Gatsby.js.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Proficient in Google Workspace applications, including Sheets, Docs, Slides, and Gmail.
Benefits
- Paid time off
- Health benefits - medical/dental/vision/hearing aid/pharmacy/behavioral health/employee assistance
- Health care reimbursement account
- Dependent care assistance plan
- Short-term disability and long-term disability insurance
- AD&D insurance
- Life insurance
- 401(k)
- Stock purchase plan to eligible employees
