Senior Applications Developer

Description
At Bath & Body Works, everyone belongs. We are committed to creating a culture of belonging focused on delivering exceptional fragrances and experiences to our customers. We focus on recruiting, retaining, and advancing top talent. In addition, we work to improve our communities and our planet to help the world live more fully.
We are seeking an experienced Java Cloud Microservices Senior Developer to join our dynamic development team. You will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining distributed, service-oriented applications in a cloud environment, including both microservices and federated GraphQL architectures. Your experience with cloud technologies, service-based design, and performance monitoring will be essential to building scalable, efficient, and secure systems. Additionally, familiarity with Agile methodologies and experience in producing high-quality documentation will play a critical role in ensuring the team's success!
Responsibilities

• Act as a delivery lead on projects, and participate in discovery sessions, design workshops, project delivery, user acceptance testing, and cutover planning.
• Collaborate with third party vendors for system integration, to drive resolution of incidents, introduction of new capabilities, and system upgrades.
• Apply knowledge of application architecture, industry trends and standard methodologies to recommend process or technology changes.
• Solid understanding and experience in developing Java microservice applications, RESTful APIs and event-driven architectures.
• Experience in developing efficient resolvers and unified schemas via stitching/Federation while considering GraphQL security standard methodologies.
• Enhance application performance and resolve issues in a timely manner.
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code following standard methodologies.
• Testing and quality assurance: Write unit and integration tests to ensure the quality and stability of the shared code.
• Monitoring and Maintenance - Experience setup of dashboard and monitor tools to track performance, availability, and outages on Datadog, Dynatrace or any performance monitoring tools.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years' experience with Java and Springboot Development in an enterprise, high performing echosystem
• Solid understanding of development activities, such as, code branching strategies, code reviews, and team mentoring throughout the SDLC.
• Knowledge on GraphQL Schema Definition Language (SDL), Type systems, and designing intuitive, forward-compatible schemas.
• Version Control & CI/CD - Solid experience with CI/CD pipelines.
• Containerization & Orchestration - Understanding of Docker and Kubernetes for container orchestration.
• Documentation skills - Ability to write clear and accurate technical documentation for code, system flow and process.
• Database Skills - Experience working with GigaSpaces, MySQL, PostgreSQL. Experience with GigaSpaces Pluggable Connector framework a plus.
• Technical analysis skills, including root cause analysis of highly urgent, critical production issues.
• High familiarity with technical investigation strategies, including review of logs, database, configuration, Control-M jobs.
• 5-7 years' working in the IT industry completing both projects and production support/issue resolution.
• Good interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills vital to interact with BBW technology team, BBW brand partners, and third-party vendors.
• Outstanding problem solving and decision-making skills.
• Ability to communicate technical issues and solutions in a concise and understandable manner.
• Experience with Node.js and Typescript.
• Knowledge on Apollo Federation.
• Experience in delivery methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, Iterative).
• Experience with Delivery tools: Atlassian suite (Jira, Confluence, Stash, Git), MS Azure, Jenkins.
• Experience creating supporting application documentation (system context diagrams, API sequence diagrams, etc.).

Education

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant area; or equivalent combination or relevant education and experience.

Core Competencies

• Lead with Curiosity & Humility
• Build High Performing Teams for Today & Tomorrow
• Influence & Inspire with Vision & Purpose
• Observe, Engage & Connect
• Strive to Achieve Operational Excellence
• Deliver Business Results

Benefits
Bath & Body Works associates are the heart of our business. That's why we're proud to offer benefits that empower you to Dream Bigger & Live Brighter. Benefits for eligible associates include:

• Robust medical, pharmacy, dental and vision coverage. Plus, access to our onsite wellness center and pharmacy located at the Columbus, OH home office.
• 401k with company match and Associate Stock Purchase with discount
• No-cost mental health and wellbeing support through our Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Opportunity for paid time off and paid parental leave. Plus, access to family and lifestyle programs including a family building benefit, childcare discounts, and home, auto and pet insurance.
• Tuition reimbursement and scholarship opportunities for post-secondary education programs
• 40% merchandise discount and gratis that encourages you to come back to your senses!

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The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required.
We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest records, conviction records, or other criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of any applicable state and local laws. Please see links: Los Angeles Fair Chance In Hiring Ordinance, Philadelphia Fair Chance Law, San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not make employment decisions based on an individual's race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, genetic information, protected veteran status or any other legally protected status, and we comply with all laws concerning nondiscriminatory employment practices. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for associates and job applicants with disabilities. Our management team is dedicated to ensuring fulfillment of this policy with respect to recruitment, hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, training, compensation, benefits, associate activities and general treatment during employment. We only hire individuals authorized for employment in the United States.
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