Costco IT is looking to solve the technical future of Costco Wholesale by building the next generation retail environment and enhancing member experience over a wide variety of digital touchpoints.
Requirements
- Demonstrate a strong understanding of emerging technologies to support the development of new solutions.
- Understand the full technology stack and underlying applications, services, and databases in order to ensure optimal performance.
- Increases proficiency and understanding of relational and non-relational databases, distributed application architectures, user interfaces and user experience, quality assurance, security concerns, and business value creation.
- Uses test driven development (TDD) practices to assist with the detection/recognition of software defects early in the development process.
- Designs, builds, debugs, optimizes, and implements solutions in approved tool sets and databases.
- Uses APM/monitoring tools such as Dynatrace/Splunk and browser tools to perform request purepath/waterfall analysis to identify bottlenecks and suggest improvements.
- Oversees the development of new, highly-responsive, web-based user interfaces, using React.js concepts and workflows, such as Redux, Server-Side Rendering, Styled Components, and Storybook; using a test driven SDL C.
Responsibilities
- Develops the conceptual systems architecture design and the supporting technologies needed to enable new and/or enhanced functionality within a given product/application, applying principles that promote availability, reusability, interoperability, and security into the design framework.
- Performs development, optimization, and automation activities to support the implementation of a product/application.
- Develops and implements front-end architecture to support user interface concepts.
- Drives engineering best practices to deliver higher quality and scalable solutions.
- Supports, extends, and builds automated CI and CD pipelines.
- Designs and delivers DevSecOps automation for app deployment and testing.
- Conducts peer code reviews for the software changes made by other Engineers within a team.
Other
- Costco IT is a dynamic, fast-paced environment, working through exciting transformation efforts.
- Participates in scrum ceremonies (sprint planning, retrospective, showcases/demos, stand-ups, backlog refinement, etc.).
- Mentors’ Junior Engineers.
- Collaborates with team members (e.g., Systems Architects, Systems Analysts) to define project specifications and release documentation for all phases of the product development cycle from product definition to design, through implementation.
- Meets with the Development and Business teams to discuss user interface ideas and applications.
