Senior Full Stack Software Engineer

About the role

This is a rare opportunity to work at the intersection of large-scale data architecture and customer-facing impact. Every product page a customer sees, every filter they apply, and every category they navigate depends on the systems you will build and evolve.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve core platform services. You’ll own microservices that power catalog management, hierarchical classification, and organizational master data. These services integrate with upstream ingestion pipelines (including Kafka-based event streaming and Temporal workflow orchestration) and serve downstream consumers across the company.
• Design delightful internal tools. Merchants, buyers, and data stewards rely on the UIs your team builds to manage catalogs, assign hierarchy nodes, and govern organizational entities. You’ll create React-based applications that make complex data operations intuitive and efficient.
• Drive data quality at scale. You’ll build validation, canonicalization, and entity resolution capabilities that ensure data consistency across Nordstrom's product ecosystem — spanning wholesale, marketplace, and direct-to-consumer channels.
• Own what you ship. You’ll participate in on-call rotations, build observability into every service (New Relic, structured logging, custom dashboards), and drive operational excellence through runbooks, alerting, and incident response.
• Influence technical direction. You’ll contribute to architecture decisions, participate in design reviews, and mentor engineers on the team. Your designs will consider upstream and downstream integration points and balance short-term delivery with long-term platform health.

Requirements

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant delivery of both backend services and frontend applications.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems Engineering, Data Engineering.
• Communication Skills. Strong verbal, written and diagramming communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Programming Skills. Proficient in more than one Programming Language. Experience with agentic development and perspective on how to get the most from agents during the Software Development Lifecycle.
• Strong backend fundamentals. You’re comfortable designing and building microservices in Java or Kotlin, working with relational databases (PostgreSQL), and integrating with event-driven architectures (Kafka).
• Modern frontend skills. You’ve built production React applications with TypeScript. You care about usability, accessibility, and creating tools that people enjoy.
• Infrastructure fluency. You’re comfortable working with containerized deployments (Docker, Kubernetes), defining infrastructure as code with Terraform, and configuring CI/CD pipelines. You don’t need to be a platform engineer, but you can provision what your services need and troubleshoot deployment issues without waiting on someone else.
• Distributed systems thinking. You understand the tradeoffs of eventual consistency, can reason about failure modes in a service-oriented architecture, and have data driven perspectives on topics like idempotency, schema evolution, and data partitioning.
• Ownership mentality. You do more than write code — you own outcomes. You think about observability from the start, you write runbooks, and you show up when your systems need you.
• Collaborative and communicative. You thrive in cross-functional environments. You can explain a technical tradeoff to a product manager, pair with a junior engineer on a complex problem, and contribute to architectural discussions with clarity and conviction.
• Bias toward simplification. You actively seek ways to reduce complexity, remove bottlenecks, and make systems easier to operate and evolve.

Qualifications

• Familiarity with product information management or retail/e-commerce domains
• Background in entity resolution, canonicalization, or data quality systems
• Experience with Temporal.io or similar durable execution frameworks
• Contributions to engineering standards, shared libraries, or developer experience tooling

Benefits

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Our employees are our most important asset and that’s reflected in our benefits. Nordstrom is proud to offer a variety of benefits to support employees and their families, including:
- Medical/Vision, Dental, Retirement and Paid Time Away
- Life Insurance and Disability
- Merchandise Discount and EAP Resources
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. Learn more in the Nordstrom Benefits Overview by copying and pasting the following URL into your browser: https://careers.nordstrom.com/pdfs/Ben_Overview_17-19.pdf.