Full Stack Developer

Position: Full Stack Developer IV

Location: Richfield, MN

Duration: 12+ Months (Extendable)

JOB DESCRIPTION:

We are looking for local candidates\Manager prefers local candidates so they can attend team meetings.

Tell us about your department:

This is a Software Engineering position on a team in Best Buy's 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 we ll 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 aren't 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, we ll 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.