Junior Java Engineer Europe

Overview

Our partner is one of the largest retail e-commerce companies in North America
, serving millions of customers every year. You’ll join the Enterprise Payments and Gift Card Team
, which sits at the core of Nordstrom’s checkout and post‑purchase experience. The platform processes millions of transactions and billions of dollars annually
, enabling seamless omnichannel payments, gift cards, refunds, and cancellations. This is a great opportunity to learn how large‑scale, high‑availability payment systems are built and operated in production.

• Develop and maintain backend services and APIs under guidance from senior engineers.
• Write clean, maintainable, and secure code for RESTful and event‑driven systems.
• Collaborate on designs and understand how individual components fit into larger systems.
• Create and maintain automated tests (unit, integration, basic end‑to‑end).
• Monitor and help troubleshoot services using logs, metrics, and dashboards.
• Learn and follow engineering best practices and coding standards.
• Participate in code reviews and incorporate feedback.

1–2 years of experience in software development (or strong internships / projects).

• Solid understanding of Object‑oriented programming
  , data structures, and basic algorithms.
• Experience with Java or another object‑oriented language.
• Basic familiarity with REST APIs, backend frameworks (e.g., Spring Boot), relational databases (Postgre
  
  SQL, MySQL), and cloud concepts (AWS is a plus).
• Willingness to learn CI/CD, monitoring, and distributed systems.