Software Engineer (Oracle Xstore)

Belk; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Belk is seeking a Software Engineer in Charlotte, NC to write and maintain code across applications, improving performance and reducing technical debt in alignment with roadmaps. You will participate in Agile planning, design viable solutions, and guide less experienced engineers.

The role covers product development across retail platforms, intricate POS integrations, and ongoing support for deployed products. Strong Java, SQL, and Oracle experience are essential for success.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's in CS or equivalent experience.
• 2-5 years hands-on Oracle Retail Xstore POS development and Oracle DBs.
• 2-5 years experience with deal and promotion engines.
• 3-5 years Java 11/J2EE, SQL (Oracle, PostgreSQL).
• 2-5 years Spring and related frameworks; POS peripherals experience.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Product Management to understand customer challenges and design viable solutions.
• Advise on processes, technology, and interfaces to reduce technical debt.
• Forecast capacity for component usage and guide story sizing and backlog planning.
• Contribute to product designs to address critical issues and complex problems.
• Build software across multiple platforms and write tests aligned with standards.
• Provide ongoing support, monitoring, and maintenance of deployed products.
• Mentor less experienced engineers with technical guidance.
• Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and share insights.

Skills

Java

SQL databases

Agile methods

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS

Tools

Oracle Xstore POS

Xenvironment

Verifone

Worldpay

ACI

Android

Git

Job description

The Software Engineer writes and maintains code within applications and systems to implement capabilities and features, improve performance and maintainability, while reducing technical debt in alignment with product and technology roadmaps. Plays a role in Agile planning, providing advice and guidance, and monitoring emerging trends.

Essential Functions

• Agile Planning: Works with Product Management / Business Partners to understand the challenges that customers and end users face in teir day-to-day work and partner with them to design viable solutions
• Advises viable solutions to processes, technology, and interfaces that improve the effectiveness of the team and reduce technical debt
• Foresees capacity requirements for component usage and identifies limitations
• Provides input into story sizing, backlog grooming, and release planning
• Product Development: Contributes to product and solution designs to address critical issues and complex problems
• Builds software applications across multiple platforms in response to the needs of stakeholders
• Understands technical architecture and writes software and automated tests that are aligned with agreed upon standards: Performs trouble-shooting efforts and investigations when necessary
• Application Support: Provides ongoing support, monitoring, and maintenance of deployed products
• Advice and Guidance: Actively works with less experienced software engineers providing technical guidance and oversight
• Emerging Technology Monitoring: Actively participates in the engineering community, staying up to date on new software technologies and best practices and shares insights with others in the organization

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Masters Degree in Computer Science or related field; equivalent combination of industry related professional experience and education
• 2-5 years hands-on Oracle Retail Xstore POS development, Oracle databases, Oracle EFTLink, and knowledge ofRTLoggenerator and Xenvironment.
• 2-5 years experiencewithdeal and promotionengines.
• 2-5 years deep expertise in Java 11/J2EE, SQL databases (Oracle, PostgreSQL)
• 3-5 years Spring and related frameworks, and/or peripheral integrations likereceiptprinters,scanners, and PIN padsin Xstore POS.
• 2-5 years proven experience with payment integrations (e.g., Verifone, ACI, Adyen, Worldpay,etc.).
• 2-3 years experience withOracle XmobileandThin Clientarchitectures, along withAndroid developmentexperience in a retail domain.
• Experience realizing applications from conception and design, to implementation and support
• Experience with relational and dimensional data modeling
• Experience with application lifecycle methodologies (e.g. agile, iterative)
• Experience in analysis, design and programming
• Experience with appropriate database technology

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficiency with source code management tools (e.g., Git), Jira, and Confluence
• Experience in Data Integration projects or hands-on experience with ETLdata points.
• Understanding ofDevSecOpspractices, CI/CD pipelines, and Agile/Scrum methodologies.
• Exposure to test automation frameworks and performance tuning in high-volume retail systems.

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

• Advanced knowledge in requirements gathering, solution architecture, system design, development, implementation, and post-production support for highly scalable, high-volume retail software.
• Advanced knowledge of SQL with relational databases (e.g.,Oracle 19c, PostgreSQL)
• Payment & Core Retail Engines:Strong engineering background in retail-specific logic, including custom Deal & Promotion engines, loyalty programs, and direct payment integrations (e.g., ACI, Verifone, Worldpay).
• Hands-on development and configuration expertise in Oracle Retail Xstore POS, Xenvironment, ACI, andRTLoggenerator, with a proven ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex POS application issues.
• Ability to understand and communicate the business impact of technical issues.
• Collaborates with project teams on application and module design that achieves the quality attributes of performance, scalability, and availability.

Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future. Belk will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work visa status for this opportunity (no sponsorship is available for H-1B, L-1, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, F-1, J-1, OPT, CPT or any other employment-based visa).