Staff Engineer- Merchandising Software
About The Position
AEO Employment Services CO LLC seeks a Staff Engineer to design and build specialized retail merchandising software. The position is fully remote and may be performed from 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 providing 24/7 support for critical merchandising platforms. The position focuses on enterprise-scale content management, digital asset workflows, developer tooling, and distributed workflow orchestration. The engineer will work with Contentstack, Cloudinary, CreativeForce, Backstage, and Temporal, as well as support migration and decommissioning of Oracle WebCenter Sites and Adobe Scene7. The role also includes mentoring junior engineers in cloud-native and microservices development. Applicants must have a bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, and five years of post-baccalaureate, progressively responsible experience in a related software development or architecture position. Required experience includes five years with legacy CMS and migration preparation, retail asset management and delivery, and custom AEM solutions and Scene7 configuration. Three years of experience is required in cloud-native development, microservices and API integration; developer tools and workflow orchestration; Java, CI/CD, concurrency patterns, Kubernetes and GCP; mentoring; and 24/7 on-call support. Experience may be concurrent.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
- Five years of post-baccalaureate, progressively responsible experience in a related software development or architecture position.
- Five years working with legacy CMS Oracle WebCenter Sites and preparing for migration to modern CMS platforms such as Contentstack.
- Five years of asset management and delivery experience, including image management processes in a retail environment, sample management, high-volume production workflows, publishing, and delivery.
- Five years developing custom solutions in AEM and configuring Scene7 for high-traffic image delivery with predefined presets.
- Three years of experience in cloud-native development, microservices architecture, and API integration for real-time retail applications.
- Three years working with developer tools and workflow orchestration, including Backstage for service discovery and Temporal for distributed workflow orchestration.
- Three years of programming and DevOps experience, including Java, automated CI/CD pipelines, advanced concurrency design patterns in containerized microservices using Kubernetes, and GCP for high-volume retail applications.
- Three years leading and mentoring junior engineers to drive best practices and engineering excellence.
- Three years providing 24/7 on-call operational support for critical merchandising platforms.
- Experience requirements may be satisfied concurrently.
Responsibilities
- Architect and deploy enterprise-scale content management solutions using Contentstack.
- Integrate Cloudinary for dynamic image processing within merchandising systems.
- Manage creative asset workflows through CreativeForce to support team collaboration.
- Migrate and decommission Oracle WebCenter Sites and Adobe Scene7.
- Implement Backstage for an internal developer portal and service discovery.
- Introduce Temporal for distributed workflow orchestration in merchandising.
- Mentor junior engineers on cloud-native and microservices development.
- Provide 24/7 support and on-call operational support for critical merchandising platforms.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
