Our mission is to revolutionize the way people shop at Best Buy. We are building Retail Cloud Services, a suite of microservices on Azure that drive the next generation of retail transacting experiences, including the Point of Sale App and Self-checkout. As a member of this high-innovation, fast-paced, engineering-driven team, you will be working with modern tech in a startup-like environment to rapidly develop new microservices and capabilities, perform in-house/in the field testing, and scale our apps and services to Best Buy stores nationwide. Join us on an exceptionally challenging, high impact, and rewarding journey!
Who You Are:
You are positive and optimistic. Setbacks and constraints motivate you to work harder.
You are a driver—you see what needs to be done and take action.
You’re not just a developer, you’re an engineer.
You tend to ask for forgiveness, rather than permission.
You are enthusiastic and excited about technology and learning.
You have opinions, but enjoy discussions and collaboration more.
You understand the human aspects of building great software.
You are easily adaptable to change.
You strive to constantly improve yourself and your team.
What you'll do as a Lead Engineer:
Develop features built in a Distributed CQRS, Event Sourced, Microservice Architecture using NodeJS, Typescript, GraphQL and Docker
Support a growing federated GraphQL environment used across the organization
Deploy and release code through Azure Pipelines
Drive discussion about broader architecture
Understands and makes well-reasoned design decisions and tradeoffs around scaling, reliability, and maintenance in their area
Create and maintain documentation of technical designs
Lead technical direction and planning
Work in other areas of the codebase and provide guidance to other developers
Continuously maintain and improve quality across our code stack
Actively learn and effectively communicate those findings to the team
Build and drive partnerships with other technical teams across Best Buy
Participate in production support
Participate in performance analysis and optimization
Minimum Requirements:
6+ years of related work experience as a Software Engineer or Software Developer
4+ years of experience Microservice Patterns.
3+ years of experience with JavaScript
2+ years of experience with NodeJS
2+ years of experience with cloud services (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud)
Ability to document requirements and specifications