Software Engineer II [T500-18013]

Key Responsibilities

• Contribute to the delivery of complex solutions, breaking down big problems into smaller pieces
• Actively participate in team planning activities
• Ensure the quality and integrity of the SDLC for their team and identify opportunities for improvement in how the team works, through usage of recommended tools and practices
• Able to triage complex issues independently
• Aware of the technology landscape, help to plan delivery of coarse-grained business needs spanning multiple applications
• Set a consistent example of agile development practices and coach other engineers to work as a team with Product and Experience Design
• Help new hires and junior engineers to improve their skills and be more effective
• Contribute to and improve internal libraries and tools
• Understand the business supported by your applications
• Proactively communicate status and issues to their manager
• Identify problems and risks of their own work and the work of others
• Collaborate with other teams to find creative solutions to customer issues
• Show a commitment to delivery deadlines, in particular seasonal and vendor partner deadlines that are critical to Best Buy’s continued success

Requirements

• 4+ years of relevant professional experience with a bachelor's degree OR equivalent. Including:
• 2+ years of experience with Java and Spring Boot frameworks
• 2+ years of experience designing and utilizing relational database concepts & technologies

Preferred

• 1+ year experience utilizing data streaming technologies, including Kafka
• 1+ year experience with NoSQL databases