Software Engineer 2a - C# / .Net Core [T500-20142]

About Costco Wholesale

Costco Wholesale is a multi-billion-dollar global retailer with warehouse club operations in fourteen countries. They provide a wide selection of quality merchandise, plus the convenience of specialty departments and exclusive member services, all designed to make shopping a pleasurable treasure hunt experience for their members.

About Costco Wholesale India

At Costco Wholesale India, we foster a collaborative space, working to support Costco Wholesale in developing innovative solutions that improve members’ experiences and make employees’ jobs easier. Our employees play a key role in driving and delivering innovation to establish IT as a core competitive advantage for Costco Wholesale.

Position Title: Software Engineer 2a

Role Summary:

The Costco GDX Order Management Platform team is looking for a talented individual to design, develop, and maintain the critical services that power Costco’s multi-billion-dollar eCommerce business.

This role will be instrumental in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, focusing heavily on back-end microservices development with an opportunity to make a tangible impact on millions of members globally within a rapidly expanding eCommerce landscape.

This role will have direct responsibility for:

• Delivering innovative capabilities that enhance the customer experience across various digital touchpoints.
• Building microservice components from the ground up.
• Ensuring the longevity, scalability and quality of our systems through continuous improvement, comprehensive documentation, meticulous profiling, and significant performance enhancements.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Supports Senior Engineers in designing the Order Management Platform’s overall architecture, applying principles that promote availability, reusability, interoperability, and security into the design framework
• Performs development, optimization, and automation activities to support the implementation of the Order Management platform
• Adopts engineering best practices to deliver higher quality, scalable solutions
• Uses test-driven development practices to assist with the detection of defects early in the development process
• Collaborates with Senior Engineers to establish and maintain coding standards, architectural patterns, and development processes
• Conducts peer code reviews for the changes made by other engineers within the team
• Works with the product team on feature/story grooming
• Participates in scrum ceremonies (sprint planning, retrospective, business demos, stand-ups, backlog refinement, etc.)
• Collaborates with the team to define specifications and documentation across all phases of the product development cycle, from design to implementation
• Regular and reliable workplace attendance at your assigned location

Experience Required:

Minimum Qualifications:

• 4 – 6 years of experience
• 5+ years of experience with C#, TypeScript, REST, JSON, XML, YAML, Microservices, Rest API and Swagger.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience in designing and developing containerized (Docker/Kubernetes) services based on the .NET Core framework
• 5+ years of experience developing and writing unit tests using NUnit or similar framework
• 3+ years of experience with CI/CD tools: GitHub, Jenkins
• 3+ years of experience with API development, with an emphasis on security and performance
• 3+ years of experience with microservice-based debugging and performance testing
• 5+ years of experience developing within an agile methodology
• Solid knowledge of database application development in relational and NoSQL platforms
• Strong verbal and written communication skills and ability to communicate to both technical and business audiences
• Ability to work under pressure in crisis with a strong sense of urgency
• Responsible, conscientious, organized, self-motivated and able to work with limited supervision
• Detail-oriented with strong problem-solving skills and ability to analyze potential future issues
• Able to support off-hours work as required, including weekends, holidays, and 24/7 on-call responsibilities on a rotational basis
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working in a retail ecommerce environment
• Familiarity with design patterns and microservices-based architecture patterns.
• Redis and GraphQL are preferred
• Experience with deploying and configuring Google Cloud Platform resources e.g. GKE, Pub/Sub, Spanner, BigQuery
• Experience with MemoryStore, Redis or similar technologies

Must Have Skills:

• C# OR .Net Core
• CI/CD OR Jenkins OR Github Actions
• Cloud : AWS OR GCP OR Azure
• NUnit or Unit Testing
• Dockers OR Kubernetes
• SQL Server OR Spanner OR PostgreSQL

Nice to Have Skills:

• Experience working in a retail ecommerce environment.
• Terraform OR Ansible
• TypeScript OR Angular OR React