Senior Software Engineer - Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, Kafka

About Lowe's

Lowe’s Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) is a FORTUNE® 50 home improvement company serving approximately 16 million customer transactions a week in the United States. With total fiscal year 2023 sales of more than $86 billion, Lowe’s operates over 1,700 home improvement stores and employs approximately 300,000 associates. Based in Bengaluru, Lowe’s India develops innovative technology products and solutions and delivers business capabilities to provide the best omnichannel experience for Lowe’s customers. Lowe’s India employs over 4,200 associates across technology, analytics, merchandising, supply chain, marketing, finance and accounting, product management and shared services. Lowe’s India actively supports the communities it serves through programs focused on skill-building, sustainability and safe homes. For more information, visit, www.lowes.co.in.

About the Team

Enterprise Item Engineering team is responsible for building the platform and services that enables lowes suppliers and lowes merchandizing partners to onboard and manage their products to be listed on lowes.com, stores and multiple other selling channels. This team delivers best in class customer experience to our suppliers and internal customers by implementing high performant, reliable and intuitive systems to manage entire product lifecycle, insights and analytics to suppliers and merchandizing partners.

Job Summary:

As a Senior Software Engineer you will serve as a technical leader for your team. You will collaborate with technical and product leadership across the enterprise to recommend, build, own and manage the solution stack for your products. You have deep technical skills and aptitude to build products and solutions from scratch. You will help establish best practices, coding standards and will enforce design patterns to build sustainable products. You will mentor your team members and will help eliminate knowl

edge silos.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Translates user stories and functional specifications into logical program designs, code modules, stable application systems, and software solutions in an agile environment.

• Collaborates with key stakeholders including product management, infrastructure and security to ensure that functional specifications are converted into flexible, scalable, and maintainable solution designs.

• Develops, configures, or modifies complex integrated business and/or enterprise application solutions within various computing environments by designing and coding component-based applications.

• Validates and executes BDD scenarios to identify application errors and ensure software solutions meet functional specifications.

• Facilitates the implementation and maintenance of complex business and enterprise software solutions to ensure successful deployment of released applications by packaging solutions for deployment.

• Supports end-to-end test automation and other application testing efforts to ensure product quality.

• Mentors others by applying and sharing an in-depth understanding of company and industry methodologies, policies, standards, and controls.

Years of Experience

• 5 to 8 years in backend application development(Excluding the internship experince)

Education Qualification

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, CIS, or related field (or equivalent work experience in a related field)

• 5+ years of experience in software development or a related field

• 4+ years of experience in database technologies

• 4+ years of experience working on project(s) involving the implementation of solutions applying development life cycles (SDLC)

Skill Set Required

• Strong in programming, data structure and algorithms.

• Strong experience with Spring, Spring Boot and related frameworks.

• Strong in Java 1.8+, GoF Design Patterns, System Design.

• Experience working with Kafka.

• Experience working with PostgreSQL/NoSQL.

• Worked in developing microservices, REST APIs.

• Understanding of containerization (docker, Kubernetes)

• Experience with development tools like Git, Gradle, Maven, Sonar, Jenkins, Artifactory etc.

• Experience with TDD, code testability standards, JUnit/Mockito.

• Understanding of DevOps practices and CICD model of development.

• Agile project experience along with working on Agile tools like JIRA.

• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.

• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.

• Good written and verbal communication skills.
  

Lowe's is an equal opportunity employer and administers all personnel practices without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, gender, age, ancestry, national origin, mental or physical disability or medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other category protected under federal, state, or local law.