Full Stack Developer IV

Role - Full Stack Developer IV

Location - Richfield - MN. Onsite. We are looking for local candidates. Manager prefers local candidates so they can attend team meetings

Must have recent local project from MN only.

Tell us about your department:

This is a Software Engineering position on a team in Best Buys Product Domain. We are an eXtreme Programming (XP) development team that uses TDD pair programming JVM based languages and Spring. We are highly collaborative and are committed to agility code simplicity and consistent high quality. Cross-functional team members contribute to all aspects of software development and delivery.

Project Description:

The team creates and maintains a services platform and data services ingesting enriching and presenting product data for use by Best Buy website mobile app and many enterprise systems.

Position Summary/Job Description :

This role is generally a backend role but we do have a frontend and having additional frontend engineers provides us more flexibility. But frontend is not required for this role.

Skills Overview:
What are the top five skills and number of years of experience required to perform this job

• Fluent in a JVM based language (Java Groovy etc.)
• Fluent in Test Driven Development
• Strong willingness to pair program

Experience
Years of experience is generally not a good measure of experience but well say the candidates should have 5 years of experience or more.

What are some preferred/nice to have skills the manager is looking for
Nice-to-Have technical skills:

• Service development (REST HTTP JSON)
• Spring Framework
• NoSQL data stores (Cassandra Redis etc.)
• RabbitMq Kafka
• Linux/bash proficiency
• Open source software (Apache Tomcat Memcache etc.)
• React (or other Javascript single page app frameworks)
• GraphQL
• BigQuery

Also you may be the ideal candidate for our team if:

• You are enthusiastic and excited about technology.
• You are flexible dependable and know how to have fun while getting a lot done.
• You are open and honest and willing to share and accept feedback and ideas.
• You are positive and optimistic. Setbacks and constraints motivate you to work harder.
• You arent afraid to roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty with the rest of the team.
• You have strong opinions about what works while respecting and listening to others (stubborn on vision but flexible on details).
• You strive to constantly improve yourself and your team.

Interview Process Overview:

Usually well go straight to a 90 minute onsite interview that includes a coding exercise. We will sometimes request a 15-30 minute call before scheduling an interview. Depending on the number of candidates we get we may do more of those short calls for screening purposes.