Software Engineer II

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the delivery of complex solutions, breaking down big problems into smaller pieces.
• Actively participate in team planning activities.
• Help ensure the quality and integrity of the SDLC for their team and identify opportunities for improvement in how the team works through the use 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 UX.
• 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.
• In-depth knowledge of Java frameworks (Spring MVC, Spring Boot) and architecture.
• Hands-on experience in designing and developing RESTful APIs and a good understanding of RESTful web service standards.
• Hands-on experience working with Google Cloud services like Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, Cloud Build, etc.
• Working knowledge of microservice architecture and cloud services (AWS, GCP).
• Hands-on experience in using Splunk, Kibana, or similar tools for troubleshooting issues.
• Proficiency in RDBMS or NoSQL Databases.
• Ability to write unit test cases that cover all use cases using unit test frameworks like Junit or Spoc.
• Experience in using messaging systems, preferably Kafka.
• Familiarity with version control systems (e. g., GitHub).
• Ability to triage and manage complex performance and production issues.
• In-depth knowledge of code versioning tools like Git.
• Expertise in continuous integration and writing CI/CD pipelines using either Jenkins or GitHub actions.
• Ability to write Splunk and Kibana queries, analyze logs in Splunk or Kibana, and write build scripts in Maven, Gradle, etc.
• Problem-solving and analytical thinking.

Preferred:

• Experience in programming languages such as SQL and Python.
• Familiarity with AI/ML technologies and frameworks.
• Ability to work and adapt to new technologies and tools.
• Excellent communication skills.