iOS Developer

Big Lots; Thornton (CO); On-site; USD 91,000 - 127,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hands-on mentorship

Job summary

Big Lots, Inc. in Thornton, CO is hiring a backend developer to build scalable Spring Boot services. You will own performance engineering, automate Ansible tasks, and optimize billing-related TypeScript pathways. This role emphasizes on-call readiness and end-to-end project leadership in a fast-moving team.

The position offers hands-on mentorship, a strong benefits package, and meaningful ownership of high-throughput systems right here in Colorado.

Qualifications

• Familiarity with React and related tools or frameworks.
• The discipline to document while it's fresh, not after it's forgotten.
• Demonstrated knack for making the metrics-driven feel manageable.
• 3 or more years steering technology projects end to end.
• Demonstrated wins in technology work somewhere near Thornton, CO.
• A knack for Microsoft Azure that colleagues quietly come to rely on.
• An instinct for prioritization when everything is labeled urgent.

Responsibilities

• Hand off Work-Life Balance runbooks so the next on-call at Big Lots sleeps better
• Shave milliseconds off the technology hot path that Big Lots users feel every click
• Read the Spring Boot stack traces others skim past, and trace bugs to their root
• Automate the manual Ansible chores that quietly drain Thornton, CO engineering hours
• Own the proudly-nerdy edge cases in Big Lots's TypeScript billing nobody else wants to touch
• Tune database queries and schemas for high-throughput Big Lots workloads

Skills

React

Documentation

Metrics-driven

Project leadership

Azure

Prioritization

3+ years experience

Tools

Spring Boot

Ansible

Job description

Come build the backend that powers our fast-moving products, writing Spring Boot that holds up under serious load. This Thornton opening trades 5 years and Spring Boot for $91,000 - $127,000, then layers on the ownership most listings only hint at.

Key Responsibilities

• Hand off Work-Life Balance runbooks so the next on-call at Big Lots sleeps better
• Shave milliseconds off the technology hot path that Big Lots users feel every click
• Read the Spring Boot stack traces others skim past, and trace bugs to their root
• Automate the manual Ansible chores that quietly drain Thornton, CO engineering hours
• Own the proudly-nerdy edge cases in Big Lots's TypeScript billing nobody else wants to touch
• Tune database queries and schemas for high-throughput Big Lots workloads

What You'll Bring

• Familiarity with React and related tools or frameworks
• The discipline to document while it's fresh, not after it's forgotten
• Demonstrated knack for making the metrics-driven feel manageable
• 3 or more years steering technology projects end to end
• Demonstrated wins in technology work somewhere near Thornton, CO
• A knack for Microsoft Azure that colleagues quietly come to rely on
• An instinct for prioritization when everything is labeled urgent

Big Lots is the metrics-driven Thornton, CO company that technology insiders recommend but rarely the one that advertises. Recognition here is specific and frequent, not saved up for some annual Thornton, CO ceremony.

You get $91,000 - $127,000, a robust benefits suite, and hands-on mentorship aimed at making you a stronger technology professional.

Our Thornton team is currently shortlisting candidates for this position.