Digital Engineer I - Team Future Transacting at Best Buy in Richfield, Minnesota

Job Description:

Our mission is to revolutionize the way people shop at Best Buy. We are building Retail Cloud Services, a suite of microservices on Azure that drive the next generation of retail transacting experiences, including the Point of Sale App and Self-checkout.
As a member of this high-innovation, fast-paced, engineering-driven team, you will be working with modern tech in a startup-like environment to rapidly develop new microservices and capabilities, perform in-house/in the field testing, and scale our apps and services to Best Buy stores nationwide.
Join us on an exceptionally challenging, high impact, and rewarding journey!

Who You Are:

• You are positive and optimistic. Setbacks and constraints motivate you to work harder.


• You are a driver—you see what needs to be done and take action.


• You’re not just a developer, you’re an engineer.


• You tend to ask for forgiveness, rather than permission.


• You are enthusiastic and excited about technology and learning.


• You have opinions, but enjoy discussions and collaboration more.


• You understand the human aspects of building great software.


• You are easily adaptable to change.


• You strive to constantly improve yourself and your team.

• Develop features built in a Distributed, Event Sourced, Microservice Architecture using NodeJS, Typescript, GraphQL and Docker


• Deploy and release code through Azure Pipelines


• Understand and drive discussion about broader architecture


• Understands and makes well-reasoned design decisions and tradeoffs around scaling, reliability, and maintenance in their area


• Create and maintain documentation of technical designs


• Actively participate in planning


• Work in all areas of the codebase


• Provide mentorship and guidance to other developers


• Help to continuously maintain and improve code quality across our stack


• Actively learn and effectively communicate findings to the team


• Build partnerships with other technical teams across Best Buy


• Participate in production support


• Participate in performance analysis and optimization

• 4+ years related work experience as a Software Engineer or Software Developer


• 1+ years of experience with JavaScript and TypeScript


• 1+ years of experience with NodeJS


• 1+ years of experience Microservice Patterns.


• 1+ years of experience with cloud services (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud)


• Ability to document requirements and specifications

• Bachelors in IT, Computer Science, business or related field