Staff Software Engineer - Best Buy Business at Best Buy in Richfield, Minnesota

Job Description:

Best Buy is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to play a key role in shaping the future of Best Buy Business. The Best Buy Business engineering team is an integral part of a fast-growing technology organization within Best Buy. This is a unique opportunity to build a new team in a highly strategic, highly visible area with great growth opportunity. Our team handles building highly scalable B2B platforms for various client integrations and customer facing capabilities along with internal sales facing functions.

In your role as the Staff Software Engineer, you will be responsible for working across broader Best Buy engineering teams to design high-quality B2B eCommerce and eProcurement solutions. Accountabilities for this position span across software delivery, engineering practices, development frameworks, stakeholder delight, team, and organizational design, and pioneering new ways of working.

We Are Excited About You Because...

• You are enthusiastic about outcomes. You will collaborate and enable your teams to create the best possible outcomes along with their stakeholders. You embrace a culture of experimentation and help us to adopt new technologies and practices. You'll learn from us, and we'll learn from you. You care deeply about the experience you are delivering.


• You have deep respect for your craft. We are dedicated to building software sustainably, using modern techniques. You're always looking for ways to raise the bar for engineering culture on your teams.


• You are respectful, empathetic, and humble. We want you to take your work seriously and be open to personal and professional growth. You communicate technical concepts well and care about how others perceive your ideas. You create an environment on your team that is inclusive and open by default, and you know that this leads to an engaged team, which leads to better outcomes. Successful leaders show everyone respect and consideration.


• You care about your community. You are active in, give back, and receive from your engineering community. You understand that mentoring and learning from others make us all better. You are committed to inclusive ways of working and honoring your team members and stakeholders as people.

• Develop and architect products to solve the challenges of delivering enterprise-level B2B eCommerce and eProcurement solutions


• Build and drive partnerships with other technical teams within Best Buy Business and collaborate with technologist across Best Buy


• Lead the overall design for eCommerce and eProcurement


• Continuously improve our product from a technical perspective


• Work across multiple engineering squads to ensure that our technical solutions are aligned


• Influence the overall enterprise architecture when it comes to B2B eCommerce solutions


• Work with engineering squads to create and modify our auto


• Participate in performance analysis and optimization


• Mentor developers in a non-management capacity


• Work directly with technical leads, engineers, product managers, architects, and business stakeholders


• Be able to jump in and help teams get over technical hurdles


• Demonstrate a creative and innovation-driven ability to articulate engineering design patterns related to scale, performance, security, and usability


• You will find this role challenging and most of all fun - bringing solutions to the market at Best Buy is awesome, fast-paced, and changing the face of retail!

• You are a problem solver


• You work well with people and can make tradeoffs to come to a solution that works for everybody


• You understand the challenges teams face in large organizations in getting things done


• You love talking tech with people and helping them learn


• You want to be an influential voice in a large engineering organization


• You’re open to changing at any time to meet the needs of our customers


• You want to make a huge impact by driving the adoption of automation solutions


• You are a self-starter who wants to be empowered

• 5 or more years of progressive responsibilities in one or more of the following areas: software/web development, application delivery, design, or architecture for web or service-oriented environments.


• Experience delivering web applications using event driven architecture, micro-services, and integration technologies supporting synchronous and asynchronous solutions


• Bachelor's degree in IT, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field OR equivalent combination of education and/or experience

• 8 or more years of hands-on experience implementing and deploying complex technical solutions using Java tech stack


• 1 or more years of experience leading development teams (technical leadership, work direction, coaching, and mentoring)


• Knowledge of and working experience with key B2B ecommerce and eProcurement technologies in Java tech stack that follows event driven architecture, tiered application delivery, Asynchronous solution; developer or architect certification in one or more of these technologies.


• Knowledge and experience with integration solutions and technologies (Spring framework, Layer7, Distributed Queues, Kubernetes, Azure / AWS cloud implementation, Spring boot, ReactJS, GraphQL. etc.)


• DevOps and CI/CD implementation experience


• Agile development practical experience


• Experience working with internal teams as a customer while creating products


• Test-driven development, refactoring, automated unit test, integration test, functional test, and continuous integration/deployment.


• Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills