Base Salary
$142k - $221k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and evolve microservices for product catalog management, hierarchical classification, and organizational master data.
- Develop React and TypeScript internal tools for merchants, buyers, data stewards, and other business users.
- Create validation, canonicalization, and entity-resolution capabilities to improve product data quality at scale.
- Integrate services with Kafka-based ingestion pipelines, Temporal workflow orchestration, and downstream enterprise consumers.
- Operate owned services through on-call rotations, observability, runbooks, alerting, and incident response.
- Contribute to architecture decisions and design reviews while mentoring engineers and influencing technical direction.
Requirements
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant delivery of backend services and frontend applications.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems Engineering, or Data Engineering.
- Proficiency in more than one programming language and strong backend experience with Java or Kotlin, microservices, PostgreSQL, and Kafka.
- Production experience building React applications with TypeScript, with attention to usability and accessibility.
- Experience with containerized deployments, Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD pipeline configuration.
- Understanding of distributed-systems tradeoffs including eventual consistency, failure modes, idempotency, schema evolution, and data partitioning.
- Strong verbal, written, and diagramming communication skills and the ability to explain technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience with agentic development and using agents during the software development lifecycle.
- Preferred qualifications include experience with Temporal.io or similar durable execution frameworks, product information management or retail/e-commerce, entity resolution, canonicalization, data quality systems, engineering standards, shared libraries, or developer experience tooling.
Benefits
- Hybrid position in Seattle, Washington, requiring at least four days per week at Nordstrom’s corporate headquarters.
- Medical, vision, dental, retirement, paid time away, life insurance, disability coverage, merchandise discount, and EAP resources.
- 401(k), PTO accruals, holidays, and other benefits subject to eligibility requirements.
- 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.