Software Engineer - Cloud Services
COMPANY OVERVIEW
For over a century, Neiman Marcus Group has served the unique needs of our discerning customers by staying true to the principles of our founders: to be the premier omni-channel retailer of luxury and fashion merchandise dedicated to providing superior service and a distinctive shopping experience in our stores and on our websites. Neiman Marcus Group is comprised of the Specialty Retail Stores division, which includes Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman, and our international brand, mytheresa.com. Our portfolio of brands offers the finest luxury and fashion apparel, accessories, jewelry, beauty, and home décor. The Company operates more than 40 Neiman Marcus full-line stores in the most affluent markets across the United States, including U.S. gateway cities that draw an international clientele. In addition, we operate 2 Bergdorf Goodman stores in landmark locations on Fifth Avenue in New York City. We also operate more than 40 Last Call by Neiman Marcus off-price stores that cater to a value oriented, yet fashion minded customer. Our upscale eCommerce and direct-to-consumer division includes NeimanMarcus.com, BergdorfGoodman.com Horchow.com, LastCall.com, and CUSP.com. Every day each of our 15,000 NMG associates works towards the goal of enabling our customer to shop any of our brands "anytime, anywhere, and on any device." Whether the merchandise we sell, the customer service we offer, or our investments in technology, everything we do is to enhance the customer experience across all channels and brands.
DESCRIPTION
Position Overview: Neiman Marcus is looking for a Software Engineer to join our Search & Navigation team. This position will help build, evolve, and maintain a world class online product discovery platform. This is a hands on position that will require writing code to support weekly production releases. However, the ideal candidate will also be able to thrive in a collaborative, fast paced, product team environment. This is a great opportunity to work with a modern tech stack including: microservices, AWS, containerization (Docker), Spring/Spring Boot, Netflix OSS, lambdas/serverless, NoSQL (ElasticSearch), CI pipelines (Jenkins), NodeJS, React/Redux, Splunk, and many third party integrations as well. And the best part is that the tech stack is ever evolving. We emphasize and promote a culture of learning and innovation
QUALIFICATIONS
Key Responsibilities
- Partner with Product Owners to define solutions for business problems.
- Deliver stories on time, that are functionally correct, performant, and operationally ready.
- Actively contribute to the Agile process and associated ceremonies.
- Proactively identify blockers to development and discuss with team.
- Follow best practices for secure web development. Adhere to internal best practices and processes with respect to coding standards, unit test coverage, test automation, and continuous integration.
- Partner with operations to troubleshoot production problems as needed.
- Maintain a product team mindset. If you have a good idea, share it. Always be thinking about how we can improve whether it be from a functional, performance, operational, tech stack, or other perspective.
- 5+ years hands on development experience with Java, J2EE and/or Spring.
- Experience with Spring Boot or other rapid application development frameworks.
- Understanding of UI technologies such as CSS, Javascript, NodeJS, React, and Redux.
- Experience with continuous integration and related tools (Jenkins, Maven, Gradle, etc.)
- Ability to present technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Good communication skills and desire to help others.
- A desire to learn and invest in self improvement.
- Experience building microservice/cloud native applications.
- Experience with ElasticSearch or other NoSQL data stores.
- Experience working in a DevOps environment using continuous deployment pipelines.
- Hands on development experience with UI technologies such as CSS, Javascript, NodeJS, React, and Redux.