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Job Description:

We are looking for a Senior Developer / Technical Lead with deep experience building and supporting Kafka-based, high-volume integration services. You will lead the design, development, and operational support of event-driven services that maintain and evolve integrations between Abercrombie & Fitch and 3rd party partners. This role emphasizes technical leadership, building standardized ways of working, and strong documentation practices to improve reliability, consistency, and long-term maintainability. You will partner cross-functionally to shape integration patterns, mentor developers, drive engineering standards, and ensure observability and production readiness across the platform. This key role helps to stabilize and improve post-modernized integrations to ensure business-critical messaging is working with high availability.

What will you be doing?

• Lead ownership, design, and delivery of Kafka-centric integrations for external/3rd-party partners, including topic strategy, message contracts, schema evolution, reliability patterns, logging strategy, and peak support preparation
• Improve end-to-end, high-throughput event-driven process flows (partitioning strategy, consumer groups, offsets, retry strategy, error handling, ordering, and DLQ patterns)
• Build and maintain technical documentation (architecture, flow diagrams, runbooks, integration guides, and operational playbooks)
• Drive standardization efforts across messaging/integration patterns, error handling, observability, and release practices
• Support production operations and troubleshooting using centralized logging and monitoring tools (Splunk, Dynatrace) and Kafka tooling (Lens)
• Work with the scrum team to break down requirements, deliver iteratively, and ensure solutions meet engineering standards
• Deliver across the software life cycle (design, build, test, deploy, release, and support) with a strong focus on quality and automation
• Coordinate and lead incident and severe incident response across stakeholders and downstream system
• Mentor developers to follow best practices, utilize AI tools effectively, and follow the team's coding patterns
• Drive operational readiness for the peak retail holiday season by employing comprehensive performance testing and targeted application optimization to ensure system resilience and minimize production disruptions

What do you need to bring?

• BA/BS Degree in Computer Science, related field, or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of hands-on Apache Kafka experience in production (high-volume streaming, topics/partitions, consumer groups, offsets, retries, DLQ patterns, and performance troubleshooting)
• 8+ years of Java (Java 8+) backend development
• 2+ years building services using Spring Boot (REST APIs, configuration, testing, deployments)
• 2+ years using a performance testing tool such as Neoload or K6
• 2+ years working on the supply chain / distribution / warehousing space
• Experience with centralized logging/analysis tools (e.g., Splunk/Kibana/Datadog/Grafana) and debugging production issues using logs and metrics
• Familiarity w/ observability and basic server/service health review using tools such as Dynatrace
• Familiarity with Kafka tooling such as Lens for inspecting topics, consumers, lag, and message flows and KafkaUI
• Test driven development using JUnit or other testing frameworks
• Experience with Continuous Integration and Automated test execution and building tools (CI/CD)
• Experience in all phases of the software development life cycle, including analysis, design, unit test, system test, deployment, and production support
• Expertise in object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem solving, complexity analysis, and debugging
• Experience with AI tooling and AI coding assistants (Cursor/Copilot/Other ide coding assistant)
• Strong experience building integration services using Kafka (preferred) and/or JMS/MQ, plus REST/JSON APIs and partner-facing integration patterns
• SQL query skills and knowledge of relational databases (e.g., MySQL) or similar database management systems
• OpenShift/Kubernetes/Docker container experience preferred
• Familiarity with basic Linux or related platform concepts and commands
• Experience with architecture and IT security best practices
• Ability to rapidly learn new software and maintain competency with technologies
• Excellent communication skills, work ethic, and the ability to work well individually as well as in a team environment
• Must possess understanding of business processes and ability to solve complex problems
• Critical thinker with the ability to develop new problem-solving approaches and formulate innovative solutions
• Ability to think and react in a high-energy, fast-paced environment
• Attention to detail and flexibility in work assignments

Our Company

Abercrombie & Fitch Co. is a global, digitally led omnichannel specialty retailer of apparel and accessories catering to kids through millennials with assortments curated for their specific lifestyle needs.

The company operates a family of brands, including Abercrombie & Fitch, YPB, abercrombie kids, Hollister and Gilly Hicks, each sharing a commitment to offer products of enduring quality and exceptional comfort that support global customers on their journey to being and becoming who they are. Abercrombie & Fitch Co. operates over 750 stores under these brands across North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East, as well as the e-commerce sitesabercrombie.com,abercrombiekids.com, andhollisterco.com.

At Abercrombie & Fitch Co., we lead with purpose and always put our people first. We're proud to offer equitable compensation and benefits, including flexibility and competitive Paid Time Off, as well as education and engagement events, including various Associate Resource Groups, volunteer opportunities and additional time off to give back to our global communities.

Benefits & Perks

As an Abercrombie & Fitch Co. (A&F Co.) associate, you'll be eligible to participate in a variety of benefit programs designed to fit you and your lifestyle. A&F Co. is committed to providing competitive and comprehensive benefits that align with our company's culture and values, but most importantly - with you! We also provide competitive incentives to reward the commitment our associates have for moving our global business forward:

• Incentive bonus program
• 401(K) savings plan with company match
• Annual companywide review process
• Flexible spending accounts
• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• Life and disability insurance
• Associate assistance program
• Paid parental and adoption leave
• Access to fertility and adoption benefits through Carrot
• Access to mental health and wellness app, Headspace
• Paid Caregiver Leave
• Mobile Stipend
• Paid time off and one paid volunteer day per year, allowing you to give back to your community
• Work from anywhere (Mondays and Fridays are "work from anywhere" days for most roles and six work from anywhere weeks per year)
• Seven associate wellness half days per year
• Merchandise discount on all of our brands
• Opportunities for career advancement, we believe in promoting from within
• Access to multiple Associate Resource Groups
• Global team of people who will celebrate you for being YOU!

ABERCROMBIE & FITCH CO. IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

This role allows for remote work across the U.S.. Therefore, in states and cities that require the hourly or salary compensation or pay range to be included in a job posting, the recruiting pay range for this position is $121,000 - $142,000. Factors that may be used to determine your actual salary may include your specific skills, your years of experience, your work location, comparison to other employees in similar or related roles, or market demands. The range may be modified in the future.

Company Description

Abercrombie & Fitch Co. (A&F Co.) is a global, digitally led omnichannel specialty retailer of apparel and accessories catering to kids through millennials with assortments curated for their specific lifestyle needs.

The company operates a family of brands, including Abercrombie brands and Hollister brands, each sharing a commitment to offer products of enduring quality and exceptional comfort that support global customers on their journey to being and becoming who they are. Abercrombie & Fitch Co. operates stores under these brands across North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East, as well as the e-commerce sites abercrombie.com, abercrombiekids.com and hollisterco.com.

Learn more about A&F Co. by visiting our corporate website here.

ABERCROMBIE & FITCH CO. IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER.