Senior Engineer , Merchandising; Hybrid - Seattle, WA)

Senior Engineer 2

As a Senior Engineer 2, you'll be part of a key team of Nordstrom Technology professionals who apply engineering and design principles to build the platform that brings Nordstrom's supplier facing experiences together. This level owns the quality of a team's work, makes sure designs are clear and complete for execution, and can take on complex design and problem solving without supervision.

You'll work across two connected areas within the Merchandising Org:
Retail Hub, the platform that gives internal users and external supplier partners a single place to work across onboarded applications, and NVMS (Nordstrom Vendor Management System), which modernizes how Nordstrom manages merchandising vendor data and improves the supplier experience across JWN. Retail Hub provides shared platform capabilities, including task management, notification management, and user management, that NVMS and other onboarded apps build on top of.

This is a full stack position: you'll move across frontend, backend, and integration layers, and you're expected to bring a working understanding of AI tools and technologies to how you design and build.

This role is offered as hybrid in Seattle, WA. Candidates must be available to work in office at the Nordstrom corporate headquarters a minimum of 4 days/week to be considered for this position.

Design, build, and maintain full stack features across Retail Hub and NVMS, from React based UI to backend services and the integrations that connect them.

Extend Retail Hub's platform level capabilities, including task management and notifications, so new and existing apps can onboard cleanly and consistently.

Design and build event driven workflows, using events to trigger, track, and update tasks reliably as they move across services and teams.

Build and evolve NVMS capabilities that give suppliers and internal vendor management teams a modern, reliable way to manage vendor data across JWN.

Design APIs and data contracts that other teams onboarding to Retail Hub can depend on, treating backward compatibility and clear ownership boundaries as first class concerns.

Apply AI tools and techniques where they meaningfully improve the product or the team's velocity, for example automating manual data reconciliation, speeding up development workflows, or improving supplier facing experiences.

Take ownership of systems or designs that span multiple people's work, breaking work into smaller tasks for more junior engineers to support.

Drive design and code reviews, making sure the team ships high quality, scalable, maintainable, and well tested code to a platform other apps and external suppliers depend on.

Maintain a Dev Ops mindset, promoting cloud native solutions while implementing and supporting monitoring, alerting, CI/CD pipelines, and the team's cloud infrastructure.

Partner with product, design, and other engineering teams, both internal and vendor facing, to translate business needs into reliable, observable features.

Champion engineering best practices and mentor junior engineers on the team.

Our teams work across a modern, full stack, cloud native stack. You'll be expected to be proficient in several of these and grow into others:

• Frontend:
  React (or similar), micro frontend architecture, modern JavaScript/Type Script
• Languages & Frameworks:
  Java, Spring Boot, Spring Framework, Spring Data, Node.js
• APIs: REST, GraphQL, schema/contract design and versioning
• Event Driven Architecture:
  Apache Kafka, AWS SQS/SNS, event sourcing and pub/sub patterns
• Data Stores:
  PostgreSQL / Aurora, DynamoDB, Open Search, Redis
• Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS, Terraform or AWS CDK, Docker, Kubernetes
• AI & ML: AI assisted development tooling, AWS Bedrock, LLM powered features, prompt engineering, agentic workflow patterns
• Dev Ops & Observability:
  Git Hub Actions, Cloud Watch, distributed tracing (Open Telemetry), feature flags

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 7+ years of experience in software engineering or technology roles.
• 2+ years of full stack development experience, building both user facing applications and the backend services behind them.
• Demonstrated ability to design and deliver complex, distributed systems in a production environment.
• Strong proficiency in a modern frontend framework (such as React) as well as Java and the Spring ecosystem for backend services.
• Experience with event driven architecture, including designing services that publish, consume, and react to events reliably at scale.
• Experience designing and consuming APIs and data contracts shared across multiple teams or applications.
• Experience building and operating production services on AWS (for example Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, SQS/SNS) or comparable cloud platforms.
• Working knowledge of AI tools and technologies, and a point of view on where they add real value in product development, not just novelty.
• Experience with, or strong interest in, vendor or supplier…