Base Salary
$142k - $221k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and evolve Java microservices that provide product information management services and integrate with Kafka-based ingestion pipelines and Temporal workflows.
- Develop React-based internal tools for merchants, buyers, and data stewards, including operational dashboards, workflow monitors, and administrative interfaces.
- Build validation, canonicalization, and entity-resolution capabilities to improve product-data consistency across wholesale, marketplace, and direct-to-consumer channels.
- Participate in on-call rotations, implement observability, maintain runbooks and alerting, and respond to incidents.
- Contribute to architecture decisions and design reviews while considering upstream and downstream integrations and long-term platform health.
- Mentor engineers and collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders on complex system and product decisions.
Requirements
- At least 7 years of professional software engineering experience, including substantial backend and frontend application delivery.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems Engineering, or Data Engineering.
- Proficiency in more than one programming language and experience with agentic development in the software development lifecycle.
- Experience designing and building Java microservices with PostgreSQL and Kafka-based event-driven architectures.
- Experience building production React applications with TypeScript, with attention to usability and accessibility.
- Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD pipeline configuration.
- Understanding of distributed-systems tradeoffs including eventual consistency, failure modes, idempotency, schema evolution, and data partitioning.
- Strong written, verbal, and diagramming communication skills and the ability to explain technical concepts clearly.
- Experience with workflow orchestration tools such as Temporal is preferred.
Benefits
- Medical, vision, dental, retirement, paid time away, life insurance, and disability benefits.
- Merchandise discount and EAP resources.
- 401(k), PTO accruals, holidays, and additional benefits subject to eligibility requirements.
- The role is hybrid in Seattle, Washington, with at least four onsite days per week required.
- The position may be eligible for performance-based incentives or bonuses.
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About Nordstrom
At Nordstrom, we empower our employees to set their sights high and blaze their own trails. This is a place where your success and growth are truly a result of your own efforts and achievements. Our teams are made up of motivated people who work hard to become leaders within the company, at all levels of the organization. These well-traveled paths show how hard work, loyalty, a competitive spirit and your unwavering commitment to the customer can take you and your career to new places. In addition to being a great place to have a career, we’re also committed to respecting the environment and supporting our communities. To learn more, check out NordstromCares.com. Interested in joining the Nordstrom team? See some of our current opportunities under our Careers tab or visit careers.nordstrom.com to apply today.