Senior Engineer - Asset Protection (Hybrid - Seattle)

Achieve Impact

The Asset Protection team in Nordstrom’s Store Experience Technology organization is dedicated to reducing shrink, detecting fraud, and enhancing store safety.

What You'll Do

• Write production code as a core part of your week
• Lead the design, development, and operation of complex distributed systems
• Build using strong development practices
• Perform thoughtful code reviews
• Work through design problems alongside the team
• Partner with engineers, product managers, business stakeholders, and vendors
• Mentor other engineers and help the team raise its bar on quality, automation, and delivery speed
• Operate with a DevOps mindset
• Develop practices for delivering high-quality code with the help of AI coding assistants

Qualify Yourself

• 4+ years of professional experience writing, shipping, and supporting production-quality software
• Strong proficiency in Java and the Spring Boot framework
• Familiarity with RESTful microservices and the tools used to work with them (Postman, curl, OpenAPI/Swagger)
• Experience with a major public cloud (AWS or GCP) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience with event streaming and messaging (Kafka, Confluent, SQS) and the patterns that go with them
• Comfort with modern infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD tooling (GitLab CI/CD, Terraform)
• Familiarity with observability tools (New Relic, Splunk, Grafana) and a habit of instrumenting what you ship
• A solid testing discipline across unit, integration, regression, and load testing
• Experience with relational and/or NoSQL data stores
• A track record of leading the design of complex systems and features, supported by clear technical specs and diagrams
• Strong written and verbal communication; able to propose, evaluate, and defend technical designs on their merits and tradeoffs
• Energized by building solutions with a team — you do your best work in collaboration, not in isolation
• A willingness to question existing patterns and assumptions when it improves security, performance, maintainability, or business fit
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or a related engineering discipline, or equivalent practical experience

What We Offer

• Medical/Vision, Dental, Retirement and Paid Time Away
• Life Insurance and Disability
• Merchandise Discount and EAP Resources

Location Specific Information

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This position may be eligible for performance-based incentives/bonuses. Benefits include 401k, medical/vision/dental/life/disability insurance options, PTO accruals, Holidays, and more. Eligibility requirements may apply based on location, job level, classification, and length of employment.

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