Software Engineer

Software Engineer at Kohl's

As a Software Engineer, you will collaborate closely with design, product, and engineering experts to tackle real-world challenges and deliver innovative solutions that elevate Kohl’s retail offerings.

What You’ll Do

• Develop high-quality applications using extreme programming (XP) practices and a user-centric approach.
• Participate in the entire application lifecycle in collaboration with designers, product managers, and other engineers on the product team.
• Leverage critical thinking, experimentation, data, and industry best practices to achieve desired business outcomes.
• Contribute to product engineering and software standards.
• Influence the team to reduce the toil received from production, advocate for product reliability, and influence the benefits of tech debt reduction with matrices.
• Develop self and support the development of others through accountability and continuous learning.
• Adapt to constant change and model that for the rest of the team.
• Evaluate a user story for technical context, feasibility, acceptance criteria, testability, and estimation.
• Additional tasks may be assigned.

Specializations

BACKEND SOFTWARE ENGINEER

• Experience in Java and JEE development, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Batch, Spring Security.
• Knowledge of build management tools such as Gradle or Maven.
• Demonstrated understanding of source control systems such as GIT.
• Database design and implementation experience in either SQL or NoSQL databases.
• Experience working with distributed caching technologies such as Redis.
• Knowledge of full SDLC requirements gathering, planning, estimation, development, testing, and deployment.

BIG DATA SOFTWARE ENGINEER

• Experience in SQL, Python, Spark, Kafka, and Airflow.
• Experience in build management and DevOps using Gitlab, Docker, Linux scripting.
• Data modeling and design experience, including Bigquery, SQL, or PL/SQL.
• Good understanding of data as a product or data mesh topologies using cloud data lakes like Google Big Query, Amazon Redshift, or Snowflake.
• Experience designing and implementing data pipelines using Apache Airflow, Spark, Python/Scala.
• Knowledge of real-time streaming technologies like Kafkaconnect, and Flume for messaging and streaming pipelines.
• Knowledge of handling PCI/PII data adhering to compliance standards like GDPR, PCI DSS, SOX, CCPA.
• Experience in the design and integration of GenAI tools and technologies like OpenAI, Gemini, and Llama LLMs.

UI SOFTWARE ENGINEER

• A passion for stellar user experience and design.
• Proficient in NodeJS and ECMAScript standards.
• Deep understanding of CSS patterns and HTML.
• Understanding of responsive design.
• Proficient in React and one other modern UI framework like Angular, Ember, or Vue.js.
• Consume reusable component libraries.
• Can compose CSS on the fly.

SOFTWARE ENGINEER (ANDROID)

• Knowledge of Java and Kotlin for Android.
• Experience working with notifications and background tasks in apps.
• Collaborate with iOS, Android, and Server engineers to ship features.
• Experience with making REST calls over the network.
• Experience with JavaScript, either in a browser or server-side environment such as NodeJS.
• Have designed and developed a complete Android app from top to bottom.

SOFTWARE ENGINEER (iOS)

• Experience building UI/UX with the use of Storyboards and Nibs/Xibs.
• Experience with making REST calls over the network.
• Comfortable working with Xcode, Interface Builder, Objective-C/C++, and Swift.
• Collaborate with iOS, Android, and Server engineers to ship features.
• Experience with JavaScript, either in a browser or server-side environment such as NodeJS, React.
• Knowledge of the roles that tools such as clang, swiftc, ld, actool, ibtool, codesign play in the process of generating build/test artifacts.

SaaS SOFTWARE ENGINEER

• Hybrid Cloud Architecture Experience.
• Experience with integration platforms or frameworks.
• Experience integrating with large SaaS systems.
• Experience migrating on-prem systems to cloud solutions.
• Experience developing integration frameworks.
• Experience executing integration testing strategies.

APP MODERNIZATION SOFTWARE ENGINEER

• Confident in Spring Boot, Kotlin, and Java.
• Proven experience in frontend development and frameworks ReactJS, NextJS.
• Proven experience in MS SQL Server and PostgreSQL.
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and orchestration platforms like Kubernetes.
• Experience in large scale migrations - Kafka and Postgres Connectors.
• Experience in Android, React, and .NET.

Required Skills

• 2+ years of experience in software development.
• Knowledge of application design patterns, event-driven architecture, database schemas, and testing strategies.
• Knowledge and experience with continuous integration, continuous deployment, and test-driven development.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in MIS, Computer Science or related field.
• Experience with large-scale application troubleshooting and performance tuning.
• Exposure to working with major cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, or Azure).
• Familiarity and experience with XP (Extreme Programming).

Key skills/competency

• Software Development
• Java/Kotlin
• React/NodeJS
• Spring Boot
• SQL/NoSQL
• Cloud Platforms (GCP/AWS/Azure)
• CI/CD
• Extreme Programming (XP)
• Data Pipelines
• Microservices