Software Engineer - Merchandising Solutions at Costco in Issaquah, WA

Costco IT is responsible for the technical future of Costco Wholesale, the third largest retailer in the world with wholesale operations in fourteen countries. Despite our size and explosive international expansion, we continue to provide a family, employee centric atmosphere in which our employees thrive and succeed. As proof, Costco ranks eighth in Forbes “World’s Best Employers”.

This is an environment unlike anything in the high-tech world and the secret of Costco’s success is its culture. The value Costco puts on its employees is well documented in articles from a variety of publishers including Bloomberg and Forbes. Our employees and our members come FIRST. Costco is well known for its generosity and community service and has won many awards for its philanthropy. The company joins with its employees to take an active role in volunteering by sponsoring many opportunities to help others.

Come join the Costco Wholesale IT family. Costco IT is a dynamic, fast-paced environment, working through exciting transformation efforts. We are building the next generation retail environment where you will be surrounded by dedicated and highly professional employees.

Software Engineers perform development work across the technology stack (both front-end/back-end expertise). They are versatile in how they can add value, demonstrating the ability to manage the completion of projects that involve databases, backend services, or the development of front-end applications. They should be able to demonstrate a strong understanding of emerging technologies to support the development of new solutions. Software Engineers understand the full technology stack and underlying applications, services, and databases in order to ensure optimal performance.

Costco is seeking a dedicated and experienced Software Developer to join our Merchandising Solutions team. The selected candidate will be responsible for analysis, solution design, development, successful deployment and support of Merchandising applications on iSeries. This position will involve working with Database, Data Development, warehouse application, transportation, ecommerce and several other teams. This role will also work closely with Business end-users in the Buying Department, Solution Architects, Product Owners, Product Managers and Business Analysts. Responsibilities will include coordinating, mentoring, incident ticket management, on-call production support, collaborating and leading others on development and delivery of solutions following Costco’s change management policies, procedures and SDLC.

If you want to be a part of one of the worldwide BEST companies “to work for”, simply apply and let your career be reimagined.

ROLE

● Identifies high level requirements to support the definition and refinement of a robust testing strategy.

● Supports the Product Owner with the identification and definition of enablers / work items to support the architectural runway of a given product/application.

● Defines the non-functional requirements (e.g., performance, security, resiliency, etc.) which support the development of epics and user stories aligned to a value stream.

● Identifies technical dependencies across several product / application teams to support the implementation of new or enhanced functionality.

● 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.

● Drives engineering best practices to deliver higher quality and scalable solutions.

● Provides the team with the development strategy, solution recommendations, and estimates for a given product/application.

● Participates in scrum ceremonies (sprint planning, retrospective, showcases/demos, stand-ups, backlog refinement, etc.).

● Creates and executes unit tests which validate the code changes made to support the implementation of a user story.

● Uses test driven development (TDD) practices to assist with the detection/recognition of software defects early in the development process.

● Estimates, plans, and manages all implementation tasks and reports on development progress.

● Designs, builds, debugs, optimizes and implements solutions in approved tool sets and databases.

● Develops high quality, efficient and fault tolerant software.

● Supports, extends and builds automated CI and CD pipelines.

● Designs and delivers DevSecOps automation for app deployment and testing.

● Uses APM/monitoring tools such as Dynatrace/Splunk and browser tools to perform request purepath/waterfall analysis to identify bottlenecks and suggest improvements.

● Participates in the development and documentation of department standards and best practices, and mentors’ junior engineers.

● Provides the team with solution recommendations and estimates for a given product/application.

● Identifies deficiencies within a product/application’s code base and identifies opportunities to improve overall code quality.

● Conducts peer code reviews for the software changes made by other engineers within a team.

● Analyzes, Designs and develops iSeries code that supports Merchandising applications, including any interfaces with external systems that communicate with the iSeries system.

● Determines programs, objects, and files that need to be changed in order to deliver enhancements or new functionality to the business.

● Creates functional specifications for applications supported using our standard practices, processes and procedures.

● Performs design reviews, code reviews, unit testing, coordinates with development team members on development and QA tasks.

● Develops technical specifications documentation.

● Adheres to IT division development standards and deployment processes and procedures.

● Collaborates with Business Owners, Product Owners, Product Managers, team members and QA to ensure requirements are clearly defined, understood and documented.

● Participates in development estimation, deployment and release planning to ensure delivery of solutions.

● Oversees 2nd level support, resolution of daily incident tickets, creation of KB articles for 1st level support and provides on-call support.

REQUIRED

● 10 years’ functional and technical design experience.

● 10 years’ programming experience with IBM iSeries, CL, RPG (including IV and Free-Format), ILE, MQ and SQL

● Experience with iSeries DB2/400, Turnover, X Analysis, IBM ACS.

● Experience designing, developing, and maintaining real-time large-scale business applications.

● Strong Data analysis skills, particularly with iSeries Database files and fields.

● Experience with software development lifecycle methodologies.

● Responsible for continued personal growth in areas of technology, business knowledge, and Costco policies.

● Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to effectively negotiate with other teams to create a mutually beneficial solution.

● Ability to manage and prioritize multiple requests.

● Experience with iSeries development and a commitment to/passion for delivering quality solutions is a must.

● Scheduling flexibility to meet the needs of the business including weekends, holidays, and 24/7 on call responsibilities on a rotational basis.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, health benefits - medical/dental/vision/hearing aid/pharmacy/behavioral health/employee assistance, health care reimbursement account, dependent care assistance plan, short-term disability and long-term disability insurance, AD&D insurance, life insurance, 401(k), stock purchase plan to eligible employees.

Costco is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Costco is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to IT-Recruiting@costco.com

If hired, you will be required to provide proof of authorization to work in the United States.

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