Staff, Software Engineer

Lead the development of strategy and technical design for large projects, including defining timelines and project plans and analyzing and estimating feasibility, cost, time, and compatibility with hardware and other programs. Ensure that expected application performance levels are achieved. Commit to overall deliverables with customers and/or management. Recommend vendors for projects, negotiate terms/conditions with vendors, and support evaluation of new technical direction and approach with recommendations to Macy’s Technology senior management. Lead the coding/configuration, testing, implementation, and documentation of solutions, and develop detailed design specifications. Perform complex applications programming activities, including coding, testing, debugging, documentation, maintenance, and modification of complex application programs. Monitor and establish the operating efficiency of existing application systems, and provide (or arrange for) proactive maintenance. Lead the resolution of customer inquiries. Serve as a coach and mentor to more junior developers, including delegating and managing tasks as appropriate. Act as a technical expert on existing applications and other interrelated/adjacent systems and applications. Design systems/applications with a high level of complexity, such as those with many interfaces or multiple packages and platforms. Evaluate the applicability of leading-edge technologies and use this information to significantly influence future business strategies. Generate technical and/or business systems knowledge and ideas from external sources, and incorporate those ideas into IT work.

May telecommute.

Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field and 8 years of experience in job offered or in a Software Engineer-related occupation.

Position requires:
1. Java Enterprise, Java application servers, including WebSphere, WebLogic, or JBOSS, and relational databases, including Oracle, DB2, or SQL Server;
2. Web services and messaging layer using SOAP, REST, JAXB, and JMS;
3. Event-driven architecture (EDA) and service-oriented architecture (SOA);
4. Enterprise systems technologies, including Java/J2EE, Spring, Hibernate, EMS, Kafka, JBoss, RDBMS, Cloud/Microservices, Caching, Secure Development Lifecycle, and Distributed Processing;
5. Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD), DevOps processes and tools, and Containerization;
6. Cloud-based infrastructure, services, and technologies like Google Cloud Platform or equivalent (e.g. Bluemix, Cloud Foundry, Azure, AWS);
7. Experience collaborating with distributed and overseas teams to execute IT project(s) and lead development of project plans for information technology projects; and
8. Reviewing business requirements and proposing technical implementation roadmaps.