Sr Engineer

American Eagle Outfitters • Pittsburgh, PA

2d • Remote

About The Position

Senior Engineer at AEO Employment Services CO LLC, developing and deploying code across the company’s eCommerce platform and backend retail applications. This is a fully remote position open to employees anywhere in the United States. Periodic in-person attendance is required at a Pittsburgh or NYC headquarters, distribution center, or field location for interviews, orientation, and quarterly meetups.

The role includes developing and maintaining Java-based services and applications in a retail production environment; building data pipelines to integrate systems, support business intelligence, and apply business logic; and monitoring, maintaining, and optimizing cloud-native services for performance and reliability. The engineer also provides after-hours on-call support for business-critical issues.

Candidates must have a bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a directly related field, plus five years of post-baccalaureate, progressively responsible experience in a related position. Required experience includes three years in a consumer-facing retail environment and three years in each of the specified retail systems, release coordination, and testing areas. Experience may be concurrent.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a directly related field.
• Five years of post-baccalaureate, progressively responsible experience in a related position.
• Three years of experience working in a consumer-facing retail environment.
• Three years developing and maintaining Java-based services and applications in a retail production environment.
• Three years working with enterprise retail systems, including Inventory & Sourcing, Order Management Systems (OMS), and carrier-based Delivery Tracking systems.
• Three years coordinating large-scale releases for critical retail systems, including deployments during peak sales periods and maintaining system availability and rollback readiness.
• Three years facilitating and supporting unit, functional, end-to-end, and performance testing for customer-facing and operational retail systems, and addressing defects to maintain production integrity.
• Experience requirements may be fulfilled concurrently.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain Java-based services and applications in a retail production environment.
• Build data pipelines to integrate systems, enable business intelligence, and apply business logic.
• Monitor, maintain, and optimize cloud-native services for performance and reliability.
• Provide after-hours on-call support for business-critical issues.
• Work with Inventory & Sourcing, Order Management Systems (OMS), and carrier-based Delivery Tracking systems to support order routing, fulfillment visibility, and post-purchase experiences.
• Coordinate large-scale releases for critical retail systems, including deployments across peak sales periods, while ensuring system availability and rollback readiness.
• Facilitate and support unit, functional, end-to-end, and performance testing for customer-facing and operational retail systems, and address defects to maintain production integrity.

Benefits

• Health care benefits, including medical, vision, and dental, subject to eligibility requirements.
• Wellness benefits, subject to eligibility requirements.
• 401(k) retirement benefits, subject to eligibility requirements.
• Life and disability insurance, subject to eligibility requirements.
• Employee stock purchase program, subject to eligibility requirements.
• Paid time off, paid sick leave, and holiday pay; availability varies by job level and type, location, employment classification, and years of service.
• Parental leave and benefits, subject to eligibility requirements.
• Discretionary bonuses and other incentives may be provided at the company’s discretion.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior