Senior Engineer, Supply Chain Systems (Remote)

A&F Management Co.•Columbus, OH

8d•Remote

About The Position

We are looking for a Senior Developer / Technical Lead with deep experience building and supporting Kafka-based, high-volume integration services. You will lead the design, development, and operational support of event-driven services that maintain and evolve integrations between Abercrombie & Fitch and 3rd party partners. This role emphasizes technical leadership, building standardized ways of working, and strong documentation practices to improve reliability, consistency, and long-term maintainability. You will partner cross-functionally to shape integration patterns, mentor developers, drive engineering standards, and ensure observability and production readiness across the platform. This key role helps to stabilize and improve post-modernized integrations to ensure business-critical messaging is working with high availability.

Requirements

BA/BS Degree in Computer Science, related field, or equivalent experience
5+ years of hands-on Apache Kafka experience in production (high-volume streaming, topics/partitions, consumer groups, offsets, retries, DLQ patterns, and performance troubleshooting)
8+ years of Java (Java 8+) backend development
2+ years building services using Spring Boot (REST APIs, configuration, testing, deployments)
2+ years using a performance testing tool such as Neoload or K6
2+ years working on the supply chain / distribution / warehousing space
Experience with centralized logging/analysis tools (e.g., Splunk/Kibana/Datadog/Grafana) and debugging production issues using logs and metrics
Familiarity w/ observability and basic server/service health review using tools such as Dynatrace
Familiarity with Kafka tooling such as Lens for inspecting topics, consumers, lag, and message flows and KafkaUI
Test driven development using JUnit or other testing frameworks
Experience with Continuous Integration and Automated test execution and building tools (CI/CD)
Experience in all phases of the software development life cycle, including analysis, design, unit test, system test, deployment, and production support
Expertise in object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem solving, complexity analysis, and debugging
Experience with AI tooling and AI coding assistants (Cursor/Copilot/Other ide coding assistant)
Strong experience building integration services using Kafka (preferred) and/or JMS/MQ, plus REST/JSON APIs and partner-facing integration patterns
SQL query skills and knowledge of relational databases (e.g., MySQL) or similar database management systems
OpenShift/Kubernetes/Docker container experience preferred
Familiarity with basic Linux or related platform concepts and commands
Experience with architecture and IT security best practices
Ability to rapidly learn new software and maintain competency with technologies
Excellent communication skills, work ethic, and the ability to work well individually as well as in a team environment
Must possess understanding of business processes and ability to solve complex problems
Critical thinker with the ability to develop new problem-solving approaches and formulate innovative solutions
Ability to think and react in a high-energy, fast-paced environment
Attention to detail and flexibility in work assignments

Nice To Haves

Strong experience building integration services using Kafka
OpenShift/Kubernetes/Docker container experience

Responsibilities

Lead ownership, design, and delivery of Kafka-centric integrations for external/3rd-party partners, including topic strategy, message contracts, schema evolution, reliability patterns, logging strategy, and peak support preparation
Improve end-to-end, high-throughput event-driven process flows (partitioning strategy, consumer groups, offsets, retry strategy, error handling, ordering, and DLQ patterns)
Build and maintain technical documentation (architecture, flow diagrams, runbooks, integration guides, and operational playbooks)
Drive standardization efforts across messaging/integration patterns, error handling, observability, and release practices
Support production operations and troubleshooting using centralized logging and monitoring tools (Splunk, Dynatrace) and Kafka tooling (Lens)
Work with the scrum team to break down requirements, deliver iteratively, and ensure solutions meet engineering standards
Deliver across the software life cycle (design, build, test, deploy, release, and support) with a strong focus on quality and automation
Coordinate and lead incident and severe incident response across stakeholders and downstream system
Mentor developers to follow best practices, utilize AI tools effectively, and follow the team’s coding patterns
Drive operational readiness for the peak retail holiday season by employing comprehensive performance testing and targeted application optimization to ensure system resilience and minimize production disruptions

Benefits

Incentive bonus program
401(K) savings plan with company match
Annual companywide review process
Flexible spending accounts
Medical, dental and vision insurance
Life and disability insurance
Associate assistance program
Paid parental and adoption leave
Access to fertility and adoption benefits through Carrot
Access to mental health and wellness app, Headspace
Paid Caregiver Leave
Mobile Stipend
Paid time off
One paid volunteer day per year
Work from anywhere (Mondays and Fridays are “work from anywhere” days for most roles and six work from anywhere weeks per year)
Seven associate wellness half days per year
Merchandise discount on all of our brands
Opportunities for career advancement, we believe in promoting from within
Access to multiple Associate Resource Groups
Global team of people who will celebrate you for being YOU!