Senior Backend Engineer - Spring Boot & Azure

Big Lots, Inc.; 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

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.