Software Engineer - Retail Media Network (MarTech | Ad Tech)
Costco Wholesale - Issaquah, WA
posted 16 days ago
About the position
Costco IT is responsible for the technical future of Costco Wholesale, the third largest retailer in the world with wholesale operations in fourteen countries. Despite our size and explosive international expansion, we continue to provide a family, employee centric atmosphere in which our employees thrive and succeed. As proof, Costco ranks eighth in Forbes "World's Best Employers". This is an environment unlike anything in the high-tech world and the secret of Costco's success is its culture. The value Costco puts on its employees is well documented in articles from a variety of publishers including Bloomberg and Forbes. Our employees and our members come FIRST. Costco is well known for its generosity and community service and has won many awards for its philanthropy. The company joins with its employees to take an active role in volunteering by sponsoring many opportunities to help others. Come join the Costco Wholesale IT family. Costco IT is a dynamic, fast-paced environment, working through exciting transformation efforts. We are building the next generation retail environment where you will be surrounded by dedicated and highly professional employees.
Responsibilities
- Develop, build, and maintain high-performance APIs and software services for a large-scale Retail Media Network.
- Plan and implement enhancements to application components to boost functionality, resiliency, usability, and security.
- Understand and translate business and technical requirements, assisting in the refinement of broader solutions.
- Define and refine high-level requirements, non-functional requirements, and robust testing strategies.
- Actively participate in Agile Scrum ceremonies, including sprint planning, retrospectives, showcases/demos, daily stand-ups, and backlog refinement.
- Collaborate with project managers, stakeholders, and team members to conceptualize, design, test, and release products.
- Increase proficiency and understanding of relational and non-relational databases, distributed application architectures, user interfaces and user experience.
- Engage in continuous learning and knowledge sharing, influencing the adoption of new technologies and methodologies.
Requirements
- Experience in Retail Media Network - advertising domain (AdTech)
- Experience in retail, manufacturing, ecommerce, supply chain.
- Computer science fundamentals (object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis).
- Experience developing software features to streamline and scale streaming and batch jobs for data intensive applications.
- Experience working with ISV/IT APIs and developing integrating them with big data platforms.
- Experience integrating ISV/IT code bases into front end experiences.
- Experience in internet-scale distributed technologies (e.g. Solr, Kafka, Mem Cache, etc.).
- Experience in enhancing or implementing new features using Spark with Scala/Java, Spark or Kafka streaming.
- Experience in maintaining and improving existing codebases and peer review code changes.
- Experience documenting and demonstrating solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments, and clear code.
Nice-to-haves
- Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science, Informatics, Data science or related technical discipline.
- Relevant industry certifications are a plus.
- Experience with Azure/GCP/ Databricks.
- Experience with Java.
- Experience with Hadoop/ PIG/ HIVE / Spark.
- Experience with Criteo/ Kevel/ Skai.
- Experience with LiveRamp/ Transunion.
- Experience with Ember/ React for Dashboarding (optional).
- Experience with Adobe Experience Platform (AEP) and other Adobe products.
Benefits
- Paid time off
- Health benefits - medical/dental/vision/hearing aid/pharmacy/behavioral health/employee assistance
- Health care reimbursement account
- Dependent care assistance plan
- Short-term disability and long-term disability insurance
- AD&D insurance
- Life insurance
- 401(k)
- Stock purchase plan to eligible employees
