Software Engineer I

Responsibilities:

• Independently complete small- to medium-sized features and defects.
• Participate in team planning activities.
• Able to triage simple issues independently and more complex issues with some assistance.
• Participate in technical design and review of features, with guidance.
• Consistently follow best practices and guidelines.
• Help to mentor new team members.
• Know how to prioritise your own work.
• Understand the business supported by your applications.
• Proactively communicate status and issues to their manager.
• Propose ideas within the team to increase effectiveness through automation.
• Focused learning to attain expertise in one or more technical areas.
• Show a commitment to delivery deadlines, in particular seasonal and vendor partner deadlines that are critical to Best Buy's continued success

Requirements:

• 3+ years of relevant professional experience with a bachelor's or associate degree, OR equivalent.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience in the development of applications using Java and related frameworks.
• Working knowledge of Java frameworks (Spring MVC, Spring Boot) and architecture.
• Hands-on experience in developing RESTful APIs.
• Knowledge or working experience in RDBMS or NoSQL Databases.
• Ability to write unit test cases that cover all use cases using unit test frameworks, i. e. Junit or Spock.
• Experience in using messaging systems, preferably Kafka.
• Familiarity with version control systems (e. g., Git).
• Ability to triage and manage production issues.
• Knowledge of using code versioning tools like Git.
• Ability to write build scripts using Maven, Gradle, etc.
• Problem-solving and analytical thinking.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working in an omni-channel retail environment.
• Working knowledge of microservice architecture.
• Expertise in continuous integration and writing CI/CD pipelines using either using Jenkins or Git hub Actions.
• Knowledge of cloud services (AWS, GCP).
• Knowledge of Groovy scripting.
• Ability to work and adapt to new technologies and tools.
• Excellent communication skills.