Junior Java Software Engineer Jobs in Wisconsin (NOW HIRING)

About the Role

As 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

Addendum

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

What Skills You Have

Required

• 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

• 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)