Senior Software Engineer

About the Role

As Senior Software Engineer, you will collaborate closely with design, product and engineering experts to tackle real-world challenges and deliver innovative solutions that elevate Kohl's retail offerings.

What You'll Do

• Lead the development of high-quality applications that are robust, observable and measurable using extreme programming (XP) practices and a user-centric approach
• Participate in the entire application lifecycle in collaboration with designers, product managers, and other engineers on the product team
• Leverage critical thinking, experimentation, data, and industry best practices to implement desired business outcomes
• Facilitate group discussions and team ceremonies and develop a shared context
• Give and receive feedback that's empathetic, actionable and specific
• Practice emergent architecture with sane defaults and build software that is easy to use and easy to modify
• Establish and lead product engineering and software standards
• Ideate a new product from a user perspective, starting with one or more problem spaces and ending with a stack-ranked list of feasible solutions to test
• Research and stay up to date on tech market trends and practices
• Lead technical initiatives not only on the team but also across the department
• Additional tasks may be assigned

• Expert in Java and JEE development, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Batch, Spring Security
• Experience with build management tools such as Gradle or Maven
• Demonstrate understanding of source control systems such as GIT
• Database design and implementation experience in either SQL or NoSQL databases
• Experience designing and implementing distributed caching technologies such as Redis
• Experience driving requirements refinement, planning, estimation, development, testing, and deployment

• Experience in SQL and NOSQL data modeling for cloud data lakes.
• Understanding of data as a product or data mesh topologies using cloud data lakes like Google Big Query, Amazon Redshift or Snowflake
• Experience building and performance tuning ETL pipelines using Technologies like Apache Airflow, spark, python/scala.
• Preferred experience working with GCP data stack and infrastructure, including GCS, Dataproc, Pubsub, IAM, VPC Network.
• Knowledge of real-time streaming technologies like Kafkaconnect, and Flume for messaging and streaming pipelines.
• Experience handling PCI/PII data adhering to compliance standards like GDPR, PCI DSS, SOX, CCPA
• Experience in designing and integrating GenAI tools and technologies like OpenAI, Gemini and Llama LLMs

• A passion for stellar user experience and design
• Proficient in NodeJS and ECMAScript standards
• Deep understanding of CSS patterns and HTML
• Understanding of responsive design
• Proficient in one or more modern UI frameworks like React, Angular, Ember, or Vue.js
• Consume reusable component libraries
• Can compose CSS on the fly
• Create and evangelize reusable user interface component libraries
• Contribute to open-source front-end libraries
• Enforce style guide standards through code reviews
• Participate early and actively in the product design process

• Knowledge of Java and Kotlin for Android
• Experience working with notifications and background tasks in apps
• Collaborate with iOS, Android, and Server engineers to ship features
• Experience with making REST calls over the network
• Experience with JavaScript, either in a browser or server-side environment such as NodeJS, React
• A deep understanding of design patterns and experience working in a layered architecture (MVVM, MVP etc.)
• Strong understanding and experience with Test frameworks
• Espresso , UIAutomator

• Experience building UI/UX with the use of Storyboards and Nibs/Xibs, UIKit & Auto Layout
• Experience with making REST calls over the network
• Comfortable working with Xcode, Interface Builder, Objective-C/C++ and Swift
• Collaborate with iOS, Android, and Server engineers to ship features
• Experience with JavaScript, either in a browser or server-side environment such as NodeJS, React
• Knowledge of the roles that tools such as clang, swiftc, ld, actool, ibtool, codesign play in the process of generating build/test artifacts
• A deep understanding of design patterns and experience working in a layered architecture (VIPER, MVVM etc.)

• Experience with integration process optimizations
• Building and maintaining long-lasting vendor relationships
• Hybrid Cloud Architecture Experience
• Experience with integration platforms or frameworks
• Experience integrating with large SaaS systems
• Experience migrating on-prem systems to cloud solutions
• Experience designing integration frameworks
• Experience conducting vendor engagements
• Experience developing integration testing strategies

• Expert knowledge of application design patterns, event-driven architecture, database schemas, and testing strategies
• Expert knowledge and experience with continuous integration, continuous deployment, and test driven development
• Expert in Spring Boot, Kotlin, and Java
• Expert in frontend development and frameworks ReactJS, NextJS
• Expert in MS SQL Server and PostgreSQL
• Proven experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and orchestration platforms like Kubernetes
• Proven experience with large scale application troubleshooting and performance tuning
• Proven experience in large scale migrations - Kafka, Debezium, and Postgres Connector
• Experience in Android and .NET

• 4+ years of experience in software development
• Understanding of application design patterns, event-driven architecture, database, schemas and testing strategies
• In-depth knowledge and experience with continuous integration, continuous deployment and test-driven development

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in MIS, Computer Science or related field
• Experience with large-scale application troubleshooting and performance tuning
• Exposure working with major cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, or Azure)
• Familiarity and experience with XP (Extreme Programming)