Senior Full Stack Software Engineer (Hybrid, Seattle)

Nordstrom, Inc.; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 142,000 - 221,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Vision/Dental benefits

Retirement options

Paid Time Away

Job summary

Nordstrom, Inc. is seeking a Senior Full Stack Engineer in Seattle for a hybrid role. You will design, build, and operate core platform services and internal tools that manage millions of product records daily, balancing backend scale with usable internal interfaces.

You will drive data integrity, participate in on-call rotations, and influence architecture while mentoring engineers across the team. The role emphasizes reliability, observability, and cross-functional collaboration.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience including backend services and frontend apps
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in CS/IS/Data Engineering
• Strong communication, both written and verbal
• Proficient in multiple programming languages and agentic development
• Experience designing microservices in Java with PostgreSQL and Kafka
• Frontend production React apps with TypeScript and good usability
• Infrastructure fluency: Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD
• Distributed systems thinking with data-driven perspectives
• Ownership mentality and cross-functional collaboration
• Bias toward simplifying complex systems

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve core platform services powering product data systems
• Design delightful internal tools and dashboards for merchants, data stewards, and admins
• Drive data quality, canonicalization, and entity resolution at scale
• Own what you ship: participate in on-call, observability, runbooks, and incident response
• Influence architectural decisions and mentor engineers in the team

Skills

Backend engineering

Frontend engineering

Distributed systems

Observability

Collaboration

System design

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/IS/Data Eng

Tools

Java

Spring Boot

REST APIs

Kafka

Temporal

PostgreSQL

DynamoDB

Redis

React

TypeScript

Next.js

AWS

Terraform

GitHub

New Relic

Job description

Job Description

NOTE: This position is offered as a hybrid role in the Seattle, WA area. You must be willing to work onsite at the Nordstrom Seattle office a minimum of 4 days/week in order to be considered for this position.

This is a rare opportunity to work at the intersection of large-scale data architecture and customer-facing impact. Every product page a customer sees, every filter they apply, and every category they navigate depends on the systems you will build and evolve.

At Nordstrom, product data is the backbone of the customer experience — from the moment a product is listed to the moment it ships. The PIM Egress team owns Product Core Service (PCS), the authoritative API and Kafka interface that delivers product data to every corner of the business. PCS is mission-critical infrastructure. It serves 100+ downstream teams — spanning Checkout, Warehouse Management, Data Analytics, and beyond — at 600 requests per second with a 50ms latency target and the reliability those teams depend on to run the business.

As a Senior Full Stack Engineer on this team, you'll work at the intersection of scale, reliability, and data integrity — designing and evolving the systems that ensure every team at Nordstrom gets accurate, timely product data when they need it. You'll design, build, and operate services and user interfaces that are central to Nordstrom's product data ecosystem, working across the entire stack — from React-based internal tools used by merchants and data stewards to Java microservices that process millions of product records daily. While this role is Full Stack, the responsibilities tend to lean more toward Backend Engineering. Our UI surfaces are also internal tools built for the people who manage Nordstrom’s product data — think operational dashboards, workflow monitors, and admin interfaces that give teams real-time visibility into how millions of items move through our systems.

A day in the life...

• Build and evolve core platform services. You'll own microservices that power product information management. These services integrate with upstream ingestion pipelines (including Kafka-based event streaming and Temporal workflow orchestration) and serve downstream consumers across the company.
• Design delightful internal tools. Merchants, buyers, and data stewards rely on the UIs your team builds to manage catalogs, assign hierarchy nodes, and govern organizational entities. You'll create React-based applications that make complex data operations intuitive and efficient.
• Drive data quality at scale. You'll build validation, canonicalization, and entity resolution capabilities that ensure data consistency across Nordstrom's product ecosystem — spanning wholesale, marketplace, and direct-to-consumer channels.
• Own what you ship. You'll participate in on-call rotations, build observability into every service (New Relic, structured logging, custom dashboards), and drive operational excellence through runbooks, alerting, and incident response.
• Influence technical direction. You'll contribute to architecture decisions, participate in design reviews, and mentor engineers on the team. Your designs will consider upstream and downstream integration points and balance short-term delivery with long-term platform health.

You own this if you have…

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant delivery of both backend services and frontend applications.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems Engineering, or Data Engineering.
• Communication skills. Strong verbal, written, and diagramming communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Programming skills. Proficient in more than one programming language. Experience with agentic development and a perspective on how to get the most from agents during the software development lifecycle.
• Strong backend fundamentals. You're comfortable designing and building microservices in Java, working with relational databases (PostgreSQL), and integrating with event-driven architectures (Kafka). Experience with workflow orchestration tools like Temporal is a strong plus.
• Modern frontend skills. You've built production React applications with TypeScript. You care about usability, accessibility, and creating tools that people enjoy.
• Infrastructure fluency. You're comfortable working with containerized deployments (Docker, Kubernetes), defining infrastructure as code with Terraform, and configuring CI/CD pipelines. You don't need to be a platform engineer, but you can provision what your services need and troubleshoot deployment issues without waiting on someone else.
• Distributed systems thinking. You understand the tradeoffs of eventual consistency, can reason about failure modes in a service-oriented architecture, and have data-driven perspectives on topics like idempotency, schema evolution, and data partitioning.
• Ownership mentality. You do more than write code — you own outcomes. You think about observability from the start, you write runbooks, and you show up when your systems need you.
• Collaborative and communicative. You thrive in cross-functional environments. You can explain a technical tradeoff to a product manager, pair with a junior engineer on a complex problem, and contribute to architectural discussions with clarity and conviction.
• Bias toward simplification. You actively seek ways to reduce complexity, remove bottlenecks, and make systems easier to operate and evolve.

Technology stack…

• Backend: Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, Kafka (event streaming and CDC), Temporal.io (workflow orchestration), PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Redis
• Frontend: React, TypeScript, Next.js
• Infrastructure & Cloud: AWS (ECS/EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS, MSK), Terraform, GitHub
• Data & Integration: Kafka topics (Avro schemas), REST and webhook service-to-service communication, batch and real-time data pipelines
• Observability: New Relic (APM, dashboards, alerting), structured logging, distributed tracing

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Pay Range Details

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.

$142,000.00 - $220,500.00 Annual

We’ve got you covered…

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

This position may be eligible for performance-based incentives/bonuses. Benefits include 401k, medical/vision/dental/life/disability insurance options, PTO accruals, Holidays, and more. Eligibility requirements may apply based on location, job level, classification, and length of employment. Learn more in the Nordstrom Benefits Overview by copying and pasting the following URL into your browser: https://careers.nordstrom.com/pdfs/Ben_Overview_17-19.pdf

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