Developer IV

Submission deadline for interview selection is 03/23 @3PM CT.
We would like to start with candidates local to the MN Richfield Corp Office. Resources will work from home, but there will be some on site meetings.


- Initial 12 months contract to start - Very likely to be longer-termed/ongoing

Business Overview:

Tell us about your department:
Best Buy's Customer Relationship and Engagement Technology department consists of several teams supporting various customer experience aspects (e.g. user account, browse, search, cart, checkout).

Project Description:
This specific role will be part of the Personalization Services (Psychic) Team. The Personalization Services (Psychic) Team at Best Buy is responsible for leveraging user data and to build ML or rule-based models that are utilized to personalize the online user experience on the dotcom systems. This team builds and manages highly scalable and performant API's and pipelines that are deployed to two different public cloud data centers. The team follows Agile methodology to manage delivery of application features.

Position Summary/Job Description:
In this role, you will be part of a high-performance engineering team that partners with various domain teams at Best Buy to deliver innovative solutions that improve the customer dotcom experience. You will partner with BSAs, Product Managers and Engineers to validate the system against the requirements. You will be expected to maintain the thoroughness needed to be able to rapidly deliver functionality with a dev-ops slant.

How much time will the resource spend pair programming?
No specific pair programming, but you will be required to pair with other engineers to determine the optimal solution for your various feature or task.

Skills Overview:
What are the top five skills and number of years of experience required to perform this job?
At least 8 years of experience for all the following
Experience building highly scalable and performing applications (candidate understands considerations for state, session management, caching, consistency, concurrency, threading, messaging, and inter-system dependencies)
Highly proficient in industry current software development techniques (patterns, principles, and processes)
Advanced expertise in developing REST web services using Groovy, Java, Jersey, and Spring.
Candidate must be prepared to pair program in a TDD and Agile environment with senior level engineers.
BS/MS in computer science or engineering (or equivalent professional experience)

What are some preferred/nice to have skills the manager is looking for?
Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) products like Data Flow, CloudSQL, BigQuery, AI Platform, etc. is highly desirable
Experience with Machine Learning libraries is a plus
Proficient in Mac OS and/or IntelliJ for development
Any level of experience with NoSQL data stores (Riak, Cassandra, etc.) and/or Splunk is a plus.
Knowledge of and working experience with open source software (e.g. Apache, Tomcat, etc.).
Experience performance testing and subsequent tuning of web services including caches, web servers and data stores.
Experience with Cloud Computing platforms (e.g. Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google App Engine, Hadoop, etc.)
DevOps infrastructure experience (chef, puppet, open stack)

Interview Process Overview:
Up to 2 video-conferencing interviews with one coding test