Staff Engineer - In-Home Order Fulfillment

Best Buy; Minneapolis (MN); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Employee discount

Financial savings and retirement

Job summary

Best Buy is seeking a Staff Engineer for the In-Home Order Fulfillment team, a hands-on technical leader guiding design through production. The role focuses on secure, reliable cloud services powering scheduling for in-home delivery, installation and repair, with a strong emphasis on AI and emerging tech.

The position is hybrid: on-site Monday–Thursday at the Richfield, Minnesota corporate office, with Friday remote work.

Qualifications

• 5 years of relevant experience with a bachelor’s degree, or equivalent relevant professional experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in IT, computer science, engineering or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 5 years experience with modern Java-based frameworks for building enterprise applications and services.
• 5 years experience with event-driven and asynchronous architecture patterns, including messaging, event processing, idempotency, failure handling, and recovery.
• 3 years experience designing highly available, scalable, fault-tolerant, and resilient production systems.
• 1 year using AI-assisted or agentic engineering practices to improve software development, testing, troubleshooting, automation, and developer productivity.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test and support production Java applications, microservices and distributed systems.
• Lead technical design across applications, including APIs, events, data ownership, integrations and failure handling.
• Build for scale and reliability using patterns such as retries, circuit breakers, idempotency and recovery.
• Solve complex production, performance and integration issues while improving observability and operational readiness.
• Strengthen engineering practices across code quality, automated testing, security, CI/CD and production support.
• Mentor engineers and turn useful experiments in AI, automation and emerging technology into reusable practices.

Skills

Java

Microservices

Event-driven architecture

AI experimentation

Mentoring engineers

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT/CS/Engineering

Job description

Full time

Regular

Job Description

As a Staff Engineer on the In-Home Order Fulfillment team, you’ll help build the cloud services that power scheduling for in-home delivery, installation and repair. You’ll be a hands-on technical leader who turns complex needs into secure, reliable solutions and stays involved from design through production. You’ll guide technical direction across teams, simplify systems and help other engineers grow while exploring practical ways to use AI and emerging technology.

This role is hybrid, which means you will be required to work on site Monday through Thursday at the Best Buy corporate office in Richfield, Minnesota. You can work virtually from home or another non Best Buy location on Friday. The recruiter or hiring manager will provide more details during the hiring process.

What you’ll do

• Design, build, test and support production Java applications, microservices and distributed systems.
• Lead technical design across applications, including APIs, events, data ownership, integrations and failure handling.
• Build for scale and reliability using patterns such as retries, circuit breakers, idempotency and recovery.
• Solve complex production, performance and integration issues while improving observability and operational readiness.
• Strengthen engineering practices across code quality, automated testing, security, CI/CD and production support.
• Mentor engineers and turn useful experiments in AI, automation and emerging technology into reusable practices.

Basic Qualifications

• 5 years of relevant experience with a bachelor’s degree, or equivalent relevant professional experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in IT, computer science, engineering or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 5 years experience with modern Java-based frameworks for building enterprise applications and services.
• 5 years experience with event-driven and asynchronous architecture patterns, including messaging, event processing, idempotency, failure handling, and recovery.
• 3 years experience designing highly available, scalable, fault-tolerant, and resilient production systems.
• 1 year using AI-assisted or agentic engineering practices to improve software development, testing, troubleshooting, automation, and developer productivity.

Preferred Qualifications

• 7 or more years of relevant professional experience.
• Bachelor's degree in IT, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• Experience developing applications using JavaScript and React, or other modern JavaScript frameworks such as Angular, Vue.js, or Next.js.
• Experience designing and operating scalable microservices, APIs and event-driven distributed systems.
• Experience building highly available, fault-tolerant systems with strong testing, security, CI/CD and observability

What’s in it for you

We’re committed to helping our people thrive at work and at home. Best Buy offers a range of benefits to support your overall well-being and provide support as you need it, especially at key moments in your life.

Our benefits include:

• Competitive pay
• Great employee discount
• Financial savings and retirement resources
• Support for your physical and mental well-being

Best Buy provides different types of leaves of absence (LOA) and potential pay sources to employees based on eligibility. The length of your LOA depends on your situation, where you live, your full-time or part-time employment status, and federal and state regulations. Intermittent or reduced-schedule leave is also available for certain medical or family care leaves. Paid time off (vacation or PTO) is offered to full-time and part-time employees based on work location, employment status, salary or hourly status (exempt/non-exempt), and years of continued or bridged service.

Certain roles, where market norms demand it, are eligible for various forms of incentive pay to drive performance and offer recognition for achieving financial and strategic results. For more information about our incentive pay plans, including eligibility, please refer to our Incentive Programs Summary .

For more information about benefits, LOA and paid time off, please refer to our Benefits Guide .

About us

As part of the Best Buy team, you’ll help us fulfill our purpose to enrich lives through technology. We bring that to life every day by humanizing and personalizing tech solutions for every stage of life — in our stores, online and in customers’ homes.

Our culture is built on deeply supporting and valuing our amazing employees who make it all possible. We’re committed to being a great place to work, where you can unlock unique career possibilities. Above all, we aim to provide a place where you can bring your full, authentic self to work now and into the future. Tomorrow works here.™

Best Buy is an equal opportunity employer.

Application deadline:

Minimum of 5 days from the posting date. You can find that date above the job title at the top of the page.

1054891BR

Brand

Best Buy

Job Category

DAT Group

Job Level

121,050.00

216,650.00

Store Number or Department

900010 Corporate 1 MN

Address Line 1

City

State

Search Categories

Corporate, Digital and Technology

55423-8500

Best Buy offers a range of benefits to support your overall well-being, as outlined in the Benefits Guide . Eligibility may vary.