Sr. Software Developer

Ulta Beauty, Inc.•Bolingbrook, IL

4d•Remote

About The Position

Live the experience. From professional empowerment to continual learning opportunities. From ongoing investment in new and emerging technologies to a career of self-determination. At Ulta Beauty, our tech team is critical to our scalability—and is recognized that way. We’ve been defined as a “mature start-up.” A place where interdepartmental exposure, open doors, and genuine collaboration is ubiquitous. Where challenges come fast and furious, requiring agility, mental dexterity, and creativity. Where our passion for better solutions drives us and is core to who we are. We’re engineering for the future of retail, and it’s no-holds-barred. But for those motivated by continual change and ambiguity, by superior leadership, by whip smart colleagues who will press you daily for your very best, you’ll find that virtually nothing’s impossible at Ulta Beauty.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, or related.
Five (5) years in any occupation with development experience, or related.
Five (5) years in any occupation with IT or related experience must include: Five (5) years of IT experience including architecture, design and development.
Five (5) years of experience in architecting and delivering enterprise data solutions on-prem and cloud.
Experience with data models, data pipelines, devops and cloud-based infrastructure disciplines such as Kubernetes and containerization.
Experience in data centric security architecture concepts and open standards.
Hybrid Cloud-based data architecture, data ingestion, curation and self-service reporting frameworks.
Experience with event-based sourcing and event streaming, specifically with technologies such as Kafka, Spark and GCP Pub/Sub.
Experience in retail industry business and IT processes and systems.
Experience in designing, building and operationalizing large-scale enterprise data solutions and applications within GCP using tools such as Data Proc, Big Query, Big Table, Pub/Sub.
Experience with data integration tools Talend, SAP Data Services, Informatica or similar.
Experience reporting and analytic tools such as Power BI and Tableau.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in Computer Science, or related, and three (3) years in any occupation with development experience, or related.
Must have skills listed above.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, implement, and support software solutions across a distributed technical environment.
Develop and maintain scalable, maintainable, and high-performance software using Java.
Design and implement RESTful APIs and backend microservices using frameworks such as Spring Boot.
Manage services on Google Cloud Platform using native components such as Pub/Sub for messaging and event handling.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Product Owners, Architects, and Quality Assurance to refine requirements and acceptance criteria for development stories across the entire technology stack including database, services, and UI components.
Perform unit testing and integration testing using JUnit and validate APIs using tools such as Postman.
Design and optimize queries, collections and schema for MongoDB.
Utilize Bitbucket for source code management and branch-based development workflows.
Use JIRA for task management, sprint tracking, bug tracking and documentation of deliverables and Confluence to support collaboration and system understanding.
Monitor and support software deployed in production environments and perform root cause analysis for any software defects/bugs.
Contribute to the design and development of new features, participate in code reviews.
Follow Agile methodologies and participate in sprint planning, standups, and retrospectives as part of an iterative development lifecycle.
Support DevOps-related activities and infrastructure that enable continuous integration, testing, and delivery of software solutions.
Evaluate new technologies and tools and make recommendations for process and product improvements that align with business strategy.