About the Role

As 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
• Develop high-quality applications 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 achieve desired business outcomes
• Contribute to product engineering and software standards
• Influence the team to reduce the toil received from production, advocate for product reliability and influence the benefits of tech debt reduction with matrices
• Develop self and support the development of others through accountability and continuous learning
• Adapt to constant change and model that for the rest of the team
• Evaluate a user story for technical context, feasibility, acceptance criteria, testability and estimation
• Additional tasks may be assigned

Addendum

BACKEND SOFTWARE ENGINEER:

• Experience in Java and JEE development, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Batch, Spring Security
• Knowledge of build management tools such as Gradle or Maven
• Demonstrated understanding of source control systems such as GIT
• Database design and implementation experience in either SQL or NoSQL databases
• Experience working with distributed caching technologies such as Redis
• Knowledge of full SDLC requirements gathering, planning, estimation, development, testing, and deployment

BIG DATA SOFTWARE ENGINEER:

• Experience in SQL, Python, Spark, Kafka and Airflow
• Experience in build management and DevOps using Gitlab, docker, linux scripting
• Data modeling and design experience, including Bigquery, SQL or PL/SQL
• Good understanding of data as a product or data mesh topologies using cloud data lakes like Google Big Query, Amazon Redshift or Snowflake
• Experience designing and implementing data pipelines using Apache Airflow, Spark, Python/Scala
• Knowledge of real-time streaming technologies like Kafkaconnect, and Flume for messaging and streaming pipelines
• Knowledge of handling PCI/PII data adhering to compliance standards like GDPR, PCI DSS, SOX, CCPA
• Experience in the design and integration of GenAI tools and technologies like OpenAI, Gemini and Llama LLMs

UI SOFTWARE ENGINEER:

• A passion for stellar user experience and design
• Proficient in Node

JS and ECMAScript standards:

• Deep understanding of CSS patterns and HTML
• Understanding of responsive design
• Proficient in React and one other modern UI framework like Angular, Ember, or Vue.js
• Consume reusable component libraries
• Can compose CSS on the fly

Saa

S SOFTWARE ENGINEER:

• 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 developing integration frameworks
• Experience executing integration testing strategies

APP MODERNIZATION SOFTWARE ENGINEER:

• Confident in Spring Boot, Kotlin, and Java
• Proven experience in frontend development and frameworks ReactJS, NextJS
• Proven experience in MS SQL Server and PostgreSQL
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and orchestration platforms like Kubernetes
• Experience in large scale migrations
• Kafka and Postgres Connectors
• Experience in Android, React, and .NET

What Skills You Have:

Required

• 2+ years of experience in software development
• Knowledge of application design patterns, event-driven architecture, database schemas and testing strategies
• Knowledge and experience with continuous integration, continuous deployment and test-driven development

Preferred

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