Engineer 2 - Supply Chain

Relha LLC; Seattle, Northern (WA, KY); Hybrid; USD 122,000 - 189,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Vision, Dental

Retirement Plan

Paid Time Off

Merchandise Discount

EAP Resources

Job summary

Nordstrom seeks an Engineer 2 to join the MISC team within the Supply Chain organization, supporting the integration layer between the WMS and Material Handling Equipment. This hybrid role is based in Seattle, WA, with onsite presence required at Nordstrom headquarters a minimum of four days per week.

You will design and develop scalable software solutions, contribute to CI/CD, cloud migration, and TDD while collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable production systems.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software development experience.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS, Engineering or equivalent degree.
• Experience analyzing, designing, coding, testing, installing and maintaining complex software programs.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tooling and agents to accelerate design, coding, and testing workflows.
• A strong desire to automate everything.
• Strong grasp of multiple tech stacks.
• Experience with Backend Database (Spanner, NoSQL, Postgres).
• Experience with RESTful architecture and Microservices.
• Experience with AWS/GCP is required.
• Familiarity with containerization technologies (Kubernetes, Docker) and modern development practices and lifecycle using Scrum, Kanban or other agile methodologies.
• Familiarity with CI/CD and testing tools.
• Familiarity with messaging middleware (Kafka, SQS).
• Experience with writing services as well as consuming services using REST, SOAP, XML, JSON or any combination.
• Strong communication skills and ability to explain technical information to non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Design & develop innovative solutions to drive Nordstrom business.
• Have a passion for writing clean, consistent, and elegant code to create scalable and reliable systems.
• Contribute towards moving the team forward in leading edge processes like CI, CD, cloud migration and TDD.
• Work with defect tracking, source code control and software release systems to ensure high-quality software releases over time.
• Assist in peer code reviews and provide constructive feedback.
• Contribute to the design and development process as part of a SCRUM team.
• Transition from application development to support as needed to ensure timely production support.
• Drive build and release plans and implement actions to deploy applications to production.
• Assist Software Development Manager with planning, analysis and high-level software strategies.
• Keep current with industry trends and apply trends to architectural needs.
• Ensure corporate policies and industry best practices are observed.
• Work with business, infrastructure and security teams on delivering enhancements and bug fixes for production systems.
• Communicate effectively across cross-functional teams.

Skills

Software development

MultStack experience

RESTful & Microservices

AWS/GCP

Kubernetes & Docker

CI/CD

Messaging (Kafka, SQS)

Agile (Scrum/Kanban)

Communication

Cloud migration

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS/Engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Kafka

SQS

REST APIs

Postgres/NoSQL

Spanner (Database)

Job description

Are you ready to help build and expand a rapidly growing business within the Nordstrom family? Do you enjoy working on complex routing, shortest path and optimization problems? Are you looking for a team of high performers to help expand your skills and experience? Nordstrom is seeking an Engineer 2 to join our Merchandising, Inventory, Supply Chain, Shared Services, and Platform Technology (MISC) team! This role will specifically sit within the Supply Chain org and supports the integration layer between the WMS (Warehouse Management System) and the physical Material Handling Equipment (MHE).

This role is offered as hybrid in Seattle, WA. Candidates must be available to work in office at the Nordstrom corporate headquarters a minimum of 4 days/week to be considered for this position.

A day in the life...

Design & develop innovative solutions to drive Nordstrom business.

Have a passion for writing clean, consistent, and elegant code to create scalable and reliable systems

Contribute towards moving the team forward in leading edge processes like continuous integration, continuous delivery, cloud migrationand test-driven development

Work with defect tracking, source code control and software release systems to ensure high-quality software releases over time

Assist in peer code reviews and provide constructive feedback

Contribute to the design and development process as part of a SCRUM team.

Transition from application development to support as needed to ensure that appropriate support is available in a timely and efficient manner.

Drive build and release plans and implementation of all actions required to deploy applications to production environment.

Assist Software Development Manager with planning, analysis and definition of high-level software strategies and solutions through functional knowledge and an understanding of the enterprise business systems and industry.

Have a passion for keeping yourself current with industry trends and new technologies and ability to apply trends to architectural needs

Ensure corporate policies and industry best practices are observed and followed in developed applications.

Work with business, infrastructure and security teams on delivering any enhancements and bug fixes for production systems

You own this if you have...

3+ years of professional software development experience

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS, Engineering or equivalent degree required

Experience analyzing, designing, coding, testing, installing and maintaining complex software programs

Familiarity with AI-assisted development tooling and a strong point of view on how agents can accelerate design, coding, and testing workflows.

A strong desire to automate everything

Strong grasp of multiple tech stacks

Experience with Backend Database (preferably Spanner) or NoSQL or Postgres databases

Experience with RESTful architecture and Microservices.

Experience with Amazon AWS/GCP is required

Familiarity with containerization technologies (Kubernetes, Docker) and modern development practices and development lifecycle using Scrum, Kanban or other agile methodologies

Familiarity with CI/CD and testing tools

Familiarity with messaging middleware (Kafka, SQS)

Experience with writing services as well as consuming services using REST, SOAP, XML, JSON or any combination

Emphasis on building metrics into the system and providing visibility on uptime and performance via real time alerting, reporting, and dashboards

Experience working with diverse, collaborative, cross-functional teams

Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to persuade inspire and motivate others. This includes communicating technical information to non-technical audiences

You dislike hearing the words “It has always been done this way” and are curious about why things are done the way they are today.

Have your stylistic preferences when it comes to code but understand the discipline it takes to keep the source code maintainable.

You love troubleshooting issues and know what it takes to get your code to Production if the Zombie apocalypse hits and the rest of the team is unavailable.

The pay range(s) below has been provided in compliance with state specific laws. Pay ranges may be different for other locations.

Pay offers are dependent on the location, as well as job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

$121,500.00 - $188,500.00 Annual

Our employees are our most important asset and that’s reflected in our benefits. Nordstrom is proud to offer a variety of benefits to support employees and their families, including:

Medical/Vision, Dental, Retirement and Paid Time Away

Life Insurance and Disability

Merchandise Discount and EAP Resources

A few more important points...

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