application developer senior- ST; Nashville, TN

About the role

As an Application Developer, you’ll deliver and support technology solutions that establish key business capabilities and platform features—enabling strategic initiatives and operational improvements. You’ll collaborate across IT and the business to shape solution design, build secure and scalable software, and improve platform health through strong engineering practices and operational excellence.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery – drive requirements/backlog refinement, technical design and development, and deployment planning/execution (including transition to operations) across Agile and/or waterfall delivery.
• Build high-quality, production-ready solutions – leverage established design patterns and coding standards; automate test coverage and support continuous build/integration practices to reduce defects and production issues.
• Strengthen platform reliability – participate in on-call support, troubleshoot and remediate incidents, lead root-cause analysis, report operational KPIs, and improve patterns/standards/shared libraries to reduce technical debt.

Requirements

• 4–10 years of professional industry experience with software development
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
• Preferred qualifications include:
  • 2+ years leading teams of four or more software developers (or equivalent technical leadership scope)
  • Advanced experience with relevant platforms/applications, including established APIs and key system components (e.g., workflows, process flows, data models, batch jobs, UI components, configuration)
  • Strong experience with integration and data transport patterns (synchronous/asynchronous, bulk data, tightly/loosely coupled)
  • Experience building on or extending commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) applications to deliver differentiated business capabilities
  • Demonstrated ability to mentor other developers and influence cross-functional partners through complex, ambiguous decisions

Qualifications

• Preferred qualifications include:
  • 2+ years leading teams of four or more software developers (or equivalent technical leadership scope)
  • Advanced experience with relevant platforms/applications, including established APIs and key system components (e.g., workflows, process flows, data models, batch jobs, UI components, configuration)
  • Strong experience with integration and data transport patterns (synchronous/asynchronous, bulk data, tightly/loosely coupled)
  • Experience building on or extending commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) applications to deliver differentiated business capabilities
  • Demonstrated ability to mentor other developers and influence cross-functional partners through complex, ambiguous decisions

Skills

• Leverage established design patterns and coding standards
• Automate test coverage and support continuous build/integration practices
• Participate in on-call support, troubleshoot and remediate incidents
• Lead root-cause analysis
• Report operational KPIs
• Improve patterns/standards/shared libraries to reduce technical debt

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability
• Paid parental leave
• Family expansion reimbursement
• Paid vacation from date of hire*
• Sick time (accrued at 1 hour for every 25 hours worked)
• Eight paid holidays
• Two personal days per year
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
• Discounted company stock program (S.I.P.)
• Starbucks equity program (Bean Stock)
• Incentivized emergency savings
• Financial well-being tools
• Access to educational opportunities through the Starbucks College Achievement Plan
• Access to backup care
• DACA reimbursement

Pay

The actual base pay offered to the successful candidate will be based on multiple factors, including but not limited to job-related knowledge/skills, experience, geographical location, and internal equity. At Starbucks, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at the high end of the range for their role, and compensation decisions are dependent upon the facts and circumstances of each position and candidate.

Schedule

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