Senior Developer

We inspire purpose-filled living that brings beauty and quality to the modern home. Together, we achieve. Associates across our business drive results, innovate, and inspire. Drawn together by our shared values and passion for our customers and our brands, we deliver home furnishings that are expertly designed, responsibly sourced, and bring timeless style and function to people’s homes. From the day we opened our first store in Chicago in 1962 to the digital innovations that engage millions of customers today, our iconic brand is over 60 years in the making—and our story is still unfolding.

We’re here for it. We think you should be too. We’re looking for a driven professional with an inclusive mindset to join our team as a Senior Developer.

As a Senior Developer on our POS API Solutions team you will deliver services developed based on API and microservices concepts using RESTful principles for our rapidly evolving POS Integration. You will develop solutions built for sustainability and performance, and will improve the architecture to handle our growing number of API or microservices based POS integrations. You will collaborate closely with product managers, testers and other developers to design, test, code, deliver and support software within an Agile Scrum environment via an architecture built on a cloud infrastructure and show a readiness to guide team members. These APIs support the POS that provides the in-store shopping experience for Crate and Barrel and CB2 customers.

This position is fully remote.

A day in the life as a Senior Developer...

• Post-installation support: Monitor system and coordinate user service requests
• Participate and/or lead technical design meetings and assist defining system architecture
• Provide excellent customer service to users of Crate and Barrel POS and its integrations
• Design, develop and maintain scalable APIs and microservices for middleware and partner applications .NET, node.js, bash/shell script, JSON/XML data formats
• Implement industry best practices for API security, policies and versioning strategy
• Design, develop and maintain auxiliary programs and jobs that build caching or data storage strategies for the APIs and microservices
• Prepare and plan test environments, execute system tests, and assist with execution of user acceptance tests
• Ability to understand the complete service architecture landscape including on-premise and cloud infrastructure, and plan to automate processes
• Create and/or modify documentation for programs, process flow, test scripts or other software application needs, with the supervision and technical direction of the API development team lead
• Develop detailed design, technical design and unit test plan; functional program design; and technical program design, as needed
  
  

What You’ll Bring To The Table…

• Ability to develop a technical software solution to a business problem utilized by the POS integrations that need access to services supplied by an API
• Object Oriented Programming experience (C# and .NET experience is preferred)
• Experience and understanding of various databases (SQL, NoSQL)
• Experience in in-memory storages like Redis, Memcached
• Experience in Cloud based PaaS and IaaS offerings such as AWS, GCP, and Azure. AWS experience is preferred
• Experience in modern API technologies and API authentication, throttling, and rate limiting
• Experience in using or understanding the containerization of services, its orchestration, deployment, and the toolsets like Docker, Mesos, etc.
• Experience in version control tools such as Git, Bitbucket, etc.
• Experience in Continuous Integration/Delivery technologies and tools set (Jenkins, Bamboo, Concourse, Travis)
• Passion for defining industry standard best practices for API Management
  
  

We’d love to hear from you if you have…

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field, or comparable work experience; Master’s degree preferred
• Minimum 5 years of software application development experience, including 1-2 years developer experience.
• Ability to organize and prioritize workload to meet deadlines
• Excellent knowledge of the software application technologies utilized
  
  

Minimum Starting Rate: $105,800.00 Annually

Up to: $132,250.00 Annually

Pay ranges will be adjusted upward as needed to comply with applicable state and local law. In addition to your salary, based on your role, associates may be eligible for other compensation including bonuses, sales incentives, and long term incentives.

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