Senior Software Developer (E-Commerce)

Spencer's and Spirit Halloween•Egg Harbor Township, NJ

18h•Hybrid

About The Position

We are authentic, professional providers of fun, focused on building a Great Place To Work For All by staying true to our mission: “Life’s a Party, We’re Makin’ It Fun!” and “So Much Fun It’s Scary!” At Spencer’s and Spirit, we do the right thing always-integrity, fairness, respect, and transparency are our foundation. You will find our culture to be inclusive, passionate, resilient, and one that values differences and embraces all. One Team / One Goal We are leaders and owners of our business success. Whether it’s developing new and exclusive costumes, quality testing products, or implementing technology solutions, our teams understand the value of working collaboratively to embrace change through innovation, curiosity, and thoughtfulness. We offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes: Flexible work environment Career advancement Competitive base salary Bonus opportunity Vacation, Personal, Sick and Holiday pay Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability, Life and AD&D insurance 401k with a company match 30% merchandise discount

Requirements

A Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Information Systems, Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Applications, or closely related field and five (5) years of progressive experience as a Software Engineer, Developer, Technical or Team Lead, or similar IT occupation.
The required occupational experience must include five (5) years of experience with Java/J2ee based technologies and eCommerce frameworks, and five years of Retail direct to customer eCommerce industry experience.
experience using Agile methodologies, system architecture and object-oriented software design, REST, SOAP Web Services, and SOA architecture, Java, Spring framework, Struts framework, JavaScript, jQuery, Spring, RDBMS (Oracle, SQL), JPA/Hibernate and Java EE.
Experience with SQL, including Stored Procedures, and data analysis.
Experience with cloud-based architecture.
Experience with build tools such as Ant, Maven, and Gradle.

Responsibilities

Collaborates with internal and vendor's technical teams across the full software development life cycle understanding platform architecture and roadmap.
Ensures optimal processes are in place to support software development and support activities.
Optimizes processes, SLA's and other metrics that are in place to monitor and measure software development projects, ongoing support & Maintenance activities.
Provides feedback regarding technical requirements, timelines and software concerns.
Designs, develops and maintains applications using Java and relational databases in a distributed multi-tier and service-oriented environment.
Coordinates development activity and works directly with subject matter experts, project stakeholders and executive leadership.
Automates Change Control Process related to software builds, test executions and deployments.
Works with hosting partners and infrastructure to troubleshoot diagnose and resolve production issues.
Participates in evolving the Agile/Scrum based SDLC, ensuring that the SDLC meets the needs of the Development Team, as well as fitting within the larger organizational processes, personnel and culture.
Monitors development activities to ensure data security and audit compliance.
Partners with the Quality Assurance Team and subject matter experts to ensure that testing is complete, and that ongoing testing is addressed via an automated test suite.
Provides thought leadership and technical direction for development team.
Understands the existing system landscape and prepares conceptual, logical and physical data models.
Utilizes problem-solving to debug and troubleshoot complex software orchestrations, and identify solutions and/or alternatives.
Scopes and estimates project tasks, as well as managing multiple tasks with minimal supervision.
Leads e-commerce and multichannel/Unified Commerce initiatives, including digital development, user experience, organizational change and technology.
Collaborates with developers and product owners in developing new software applications and enhancements.