engineer II , Connect Program- ST, Seattle WA

Starbucks Coffee Company•Seattle, WA

4d•$111,000 - $185,000•Hybrid

About The Position

We are seeking an Engineer II to collaborate on the design, development, support, and modernization of enterprise retail integration platforms. This role is responsible for cloud-native applications, retail pricing and product management tools, system integrations, observability initiatives, CI/CD automation, and production support across multiple retail partners. The ideal candidate combines deep software engineering expertise with cloud architecture knowledge, DevOps practices, and experience integrating complex enterprise systems.

Requirements

4 years of professional industry experience with software development
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
Languages: C#, SQL, XAML
Required: C#, .NET Framework, Modern .NET (8/9/10+), ASP.NET Core, REST APIs, SQL Server
Development Framework |Tools: WPF, MVVM, .net [core|full], GIThub, ASP.net, Splunk, Jira, Confluence
DevOps - Required:GitHub, GitHub Actions, CI/CD Pipelines
Operation Systems: Windows 10, Windows Server 2016 – 2019
Required: REST APIs, OAuth/JWT Authentication, Certificates and key management, Event-driven architecture
Platforms: Azure & AWS
Required: Microsoft Azure, Azure Functions, Azure Storage, Azure Event Hub, Azure Key Vault
Experience in iterative Programming and Prototyping
Strong debugging and problem solving skills
Ability to analyze, diagnose and propose solutions to user problems.
Knowledge of data structures, algorithms and computer science concepts relative to the platform.
Ability to incorporate best practices and established design and implementation choices toward building secure, scalable, durable, flexible, accessible solutions.
Ability to write and value high quality, reusable software with minimal defects.
Ability to learn and incorporate new technologies, concepts and development languages.
Understanding of relevant data transport mechanisms and integrations including synchronous, asynchronous, bulk data, tightly and loosely coupled methods.
Ability to learn new concepts and technical implementation of application architecture, infrastructure and security.
Basic understanding of relevant platform and applications, including established API’s, system activity components, process flows, the underlying data model, implementation specifics of important business rules, batch jobs, user interface components, and application configuration.
Ability to design and develop relevant enhancements on top of industry COTS (Commercial Off the Shelf) applications that differentiate and/or provide competitive advantage.
Familiarity with business context and trends, as well as the business customers’ opportunities. Awareness of the functional aspects of the solution.
Ability to work with process owners to identify information technology solutions that enable business process improvements
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Ability to negotiate priorities, approach, designs and ideas with team members and customers
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Ability to balance multiple priorities and meet deadlines
Ability to use business knowledge, sound judgment, and resourcefulness to proactively move efforts forward

Nice To Haves

Blazor, Azure SDKs
Infrastructure as Code, Automated Testing Frameworks
AWS, Terraform / OpenTofu

Responsibilities

Participates in planning, decomposing, estimating, scheduling, prioritization and resource allocation exercises.
Assists in prototypes for complex problems as appropriate, earning to build incrementally, with an eye toward vision of the final product. Provides transparency in approach and progress, throughout the process.
Engages in the solution design process. Participates in requirements gathering and backlog refinement, assists with systems approach, helps with project initiation, contributes to functional design, and delivers technical design and development.
Develops software solutions to business problems. Leverages established design patterns and coding standards. Builds solutions that are secure, durable, scalable, flexible, and accessible and proactively mitigate against production support issues.
Automates test coverage per platform capabilities and requirements. Assists with manual system and integration testing efforts.
Contributes to the deployment approach, including planning and execution, data conversion approach, script development and execution, warranty period and transition of the solution to the platform's operational context.
Learns to operate effectively in both waterfall and Agile Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) processes and methodologies.
Participates in the Platform Stewardship portfolio. Contributes to the vision, roadmap, and platform investments needed to take our business solutions to the next level. Helps to identify, influence, sell and prioritize innovative platform opportunities, as well as technical debt.
Partners with cross functional teams, such as Infrastructure, Security, Architecture, QA and key Development teams, to strengthen and elevate the platform from a technology perspective. Successfully contributes to designs and solutions through enterprise processes and governance to ensure compliant, secure and supportable solutions.
Contributes to the platform development community by providing input, content and feedback on design patterns, coding standards, and shared libraries.
Initiates and facilitates team meetings to socialize technical ideas, encourages a culture of technical excellence among peers, and identifies good opportunities for adopting innovation.
Consults in the IT planning process by providing application and platform expertise for new business capabilities under consideration.
Fulfills responsibilities for on call support, including potential coverage of pager rotation.
Collaboratively and effectively diagnoses, troubleshoots and remediates incidents and problems to support the end user community. Participates in root cause analysis efforts to identify and implement solutions to operational issues.
Maintains and reports operational Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) on items such as performance, service incidents and tickets set forth by the organization leadership.
Creates and maintains documentation supporting training, system administration, deployment, and operational processes and procedures.

Benefits

medical
dental
vision
basic and supplemental life insurance
other voluntary insurance benefits
short-term and long-term disability
paid parental leave
family expansion reimbursement
paid vacation from date of hire
sick time (accrued at 1 hour for every 25 hours worked)
eight paid holidays
two personal days per year
401(k) retirement plan with employer match
discounted company stock program (S.I.P.)
Starbucks equity program (Bean Stock)
incentivized emergency savings
financial well-being tools
100% upfront tuition coverage for a first-time bachelor’s degree through Arizona State University’s online program via the Starbucks College Achievement Plan
student loan management resources
access to other educational opportunities
backup care
DACA reimbursement