Best Buy is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to play a key role in shaping the future of Best Buy's Process Automation capabilities. The Process Automation team is an integral part of the quickly growing Best Buy Automation program which has aggressive goals of transforming the way we work by reducing manual processes across the enterprise. This is a unique opportunity to build a new team in a highly strategic, highly visible area.

In your role as the Staff Software Engineer, Process Automation you will be responsible for working across the RPA, BPM, and broader Best Buy engineering teams to design high-quality automation solutions. Unlike traditional engineering teams, your team will work across the entire enterprise to deliver automation solutions that enable our most strategic priorities. Accountabilities for this position span across software delivery, user interface design, engineering practices, development frameworks, stakeholder delight, team and organizational design, and pioneering new ways of working.

We Are Excited About You Because...

• You are enthusiastic about outcomes. You will collaborate and enable your teams to create the best possible outcomes along with their stakeholders. You embrace a culture of experimentation and help us to adopt new technologies and practices. You'll learn from us, and we'll learn from you. You care deeply about the experience you are delivering.


• You have deep respect for your craft. We are dedicated to building software sustainably, using modern techniques. You're always looking for ways to raise the bar for engineering culture on your teams.


• You are respectful, empathetic, and humble. We want you to take your work seriously and be open to personal and professional growth. You communicate technical concepts well and care about how others perceive your ideas. You create an environment on your team that is inclusive and open by default, and you know that this leads to an engaged team, which leads to better outcomes. Successful leaders show everyone respect and consideration.


• You care about your community. You are active in, give back, and receive from your engineering community. You understand that mentoring and learning from others make us all better. You are committed to inclusive ways of working and honoring your team members and stakeholders as people.

• Develop and architect products to solve the challenges of delivering enterprise-level Process Automation (RPA and BPM) solutions


• Build and drive partnerships with other technical teams across Best Buy


• Lead the overall design for Process Automation solutions


• Continuously improve our product from a technical perspective


• Work across multiple engineering squads to ensure that our technical solutions are aligned


• Influence the overall enterprise architecture when it comes to automation solutions


• Work with engineering squads to create and modify our processes


• Participate in performance analysis and optimization


• Mentor developers in a non-management capacity


• Work directly with technical leads, engineers, product managers, architects, and business stakeholders


• Be able to jump in and help teams get over technical hurdles


• Demonstrate a creative and innovation-driven ability to articulate engineering design patterns related to scale, performance, security, and usability


• You will find this role challenging and most of all fun - bringing solutions to the market at Best Buy is awesome, fast-paced, and changing the face of retail!

• You are a problem solver


• You work well with people and can make tradeoffs to come to a solution that works for everybody


• You understand the challenges teams face in large organizations in getting things done


• You love talking tech with people and helping them learn


• You want to be an influential voice in a large engineering organization


• You’re open to changing at any time to meet the needs of our customers


• You want to make a huge impact by driving the adoption of automation solutions


• You are a self-starter who wants to be empowered

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.


• 5 or more years of progressive responsibilities in one or more of the following areas: software/web development, application delivery, design, or architecture for web or service-oriented environments.


• Experience delivering automation, workflow, or integration solutions

• 8 or more years of hands-on experience implementing and deploying complex technical solutions


• 1 or more years of experience leading development teams (technical leadership, work direction, coaching, and mentoring)


• Knowledge of and working experience with key automation technologies (Blue Prism, Automation Anywhere, UiPath, Pega, Appian, etc); developer or architect certification in one or more of these technologies.


• Knowledge and experience with integration solutions and technologies (Zuul, Spring Cloud Gateway, Layer7, Apigee, etc.)


• Agile development practical experience


• Experience working with internal teams as a customer while creating products


• Test-driven development, refactoring, automated unit test, integration test, functional test, and continuous integration/deployment.


• Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills