Senior Engineer - Asset Protection; Hybrid - Seattle

Position: Senior Engineer - Asset Protection (Hybrid - Seattle)
Job Description

The Asset Protection team in Nordstrom's Store Experience Technology organization is on a mission to reduce shrink, detect fraud, and enhance the safety of customers and employees across the Nordstrom enterprise. We build and maintain the data pipelines, services, and real-time alerting that power the tools security professionals use every day to investigate fraud and protect our stores.

As a Senior Engineer on the team, you'll own complex problems end to end - from shaping the design with product and business partners to shipping resilient, well-tested code into production. You'll mentor other engineers, raise the bar on quality, and help us evolve our cloud-native, event-driven architecture.

A day in the life

* Write production code as a core part of your week - this is a hands-on individual contributor role, and you'll be one of the people shipping the work, not just shaping it

* Lead the design, development, and operation of complex distributed systems that process sales transactions, in-store alerts, and other business data

* Build using strong development practices: write clear, maintainable code; cover it with meaningful tests; instrument it for production; and keep technical debt in check

* Perform thoughtful code reviews that catch real issues, share context, and help teammates grow - and welcome the same in return on your own work

* Work through design problems alongside the team - whiteboarding, debating tradeoffs, and arriving at better solutions together

* Take the time to understand the why behind a problem before reaching for a solution, including the business context, the user experience, and the constraints that shaped the existing system

* Partner with engineers, product managers, business stakeholders, and vendors to turn ambiguous problems into well-scoped solutions - translating business needs into functional requirements, and technical tradeoffs into language the business can act on

* Mentor other engineers and help the team continuously raise its bar on quality, automation, and delivery speed

* Operate with a Dev Ops mindset: own your service in production, including monitoring, alerting, CI/CD, and cloud infrastructure

* Develop practices for delivering high-quality code with the help of AI coding assistants

You'll thrive in this role if you have

* 4+ years of professional experience writing, shipping, and supporting production-quality software

* Strong proficiency in Java and the Spring Boot framework

* Familiarity with RESTful microservices and the tools used to work with them (Postman, curl, OpenAPI/Swagger)

* Experience with a major public cloud (AWS or GCP) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)

* Experience with event streaming and messaging (Kafka, Confluent, SQS) and the patterns that go with them

* Comfort with modern infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD tooling (Git Lab CI/CD, Terraform)

* Familiarity with observability tools (New Relic, Splunk, Grafana) and a habit of instrumenting what you ship

* A solid testing discipline across unit, integration, regression, and load testing

* Experience with relational and/or No

SQL data stores

* A track record of leading the design of complex systems and features, supported by clear technical specs and diagrams

* Strong written and verbal communication; able to propose, evaluate, and defend technical designs on their merits and tradeoffs

* Energized by building solutions with a team - you do your best work in collaboration, not in isolation

* A willingness to question existing patterns and assumptions when it improves security, performance, maintainability, or business fit

* Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or a related engineering discipline, or equivalent practical experience

Nice to have

* Experience with point-of-sale systems or retail technology

* Background in fraud detection, security, or other domains where data integrity and low latency really matter

* Hands-on experience designing and building RESTful microservices

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