{"id":3559063,"url":"https://alion.io/job/starbucks-application-developer-senior","title":"application developer senior","company":{"id":7439,"name":"Starbucks","domain":"starbucks.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/starbucks","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Eightfold","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":88,"open_postings":30,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.7,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":21,"computed_at":"2026-11-02T06:13:15Z"}},"role":"Backend","role_family":"Backend","seniority":"senior","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Nashville, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":124000,"max_usd":231000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":3667},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Azure Cosmos DB","optional":false},{"name":"Azure DevOps","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"GitHub Actions","optional":false},{"name":"GraphQL","optional":false},{"name":"JavaScript","optional":false},{"name":"Node JS","optional":false},{"name":"React.js","optional":false},{"name":"SQL","optional":false},{"name":"TypeScript","optional":false},{"name":"Azure","optional":true},{"name":"Cypress","optional":true},{"name":"Jest","optional":true},{"name":"Mocha","optional":true},{"name":"Playwright","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-30T22:50:41Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-30","last_verified_at":"2026-11-02T22:55:11Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":3,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":3},"description":"Now Brewing - Senior Application Developer, Data & Analytics Hub\nFrom the beginning, Starbucks set out to be a different kind of company. One that not only celebrated coffee and the rich tradition, but that also brought a feeling of connection. We are known for developing extraordinary leaders who share this passion and are guided by their service to others.\nThis is a team where technology, analytics, and strategy converge to deliver impact at scale. The engineering team sits at the core of our Data & Analytics organization, an org dedicated to transforming how data and AI empower decision-making across the company. Our mission is to integrate intelligence and insights into all operational and decisioning processes across the enterprise through data and AI forward capabilities that drive agility, productivity and efficiency at scale.\nThis role contributes to that mission by building and evolving a unified internal web platform composed of reusable frameworks, shared components and modern applications which enables secure, governed, and scalable data operations for business teams across the enterprise. As a full stack Senior Application Developer, you will contribute to the design, development and long-term evolution of the platform, modernize internal tools, improve end-user workflows, and establish engineering standards that elevate the entire ecosystem.\nWho you are...\nA hands-on senior full stack engineer with deep modern web development expertise\nA natural problem solver who thrives on tackling complex challenges and finding innovative solutions.\nPassionate about building modern, intuitive user experiences backed by scalable services. \nA technical leader who drives best practices, standards, and continuous improvement. \nComfortable working across the stack-from UI/UX to APIs, databases, and cloud deployment. \nEnergized by the opportunity to modernize internal tools and frameworks at scale.\nAs a Senior Application Developer, you will…\nWeb Framework Design & Development\nCollaborate on the design, development, testing, deployment, and support of internal web framework supporting full-service data operations. \nBuild modern, responsive, and accessible user interfaces aligned with Starbucks design and usability standards.\nDevelop scalable APIs and backend services using modern frameworks and architectures.\nTranslate UX designs and mockups into high quality, maintainable, production ready code.\nEnsure solutions adhere to Starbucks security, privacy, and data governance requirements.\nBuild and maintain shared UI components, libraries, and services that can be adopted across multiple applications.\nPartner closely with designers, data engineering, architecture, and devOps to deliver cohesive, performant platform experiences\nTechnical Leadership & Standards\nDemonstrate deep expertise in web technologies and guide teams in adopting best practices and tooling standards.\nIdentify opportunities to improve coding standards and development processes and help drive adoption across the team.\nProvide technical consultation on complex programs and initiatives.\nAct as a thought leader for web development frameworks, platform patterns, CI/CD, and cloud deployment best practices.\nRepresent engineering in cross functional forums with business, architecture, QA, and operations teams. \nMentor and coach less experienced developers on a highly collaborative team, fostering a culture of quality, ownership and technical\nexcellence.\n\nOperational Excellence & Support\nPerform root cause analysis to identify and implement long-term fixes for software and business process issues.\nDevelop and maintain documentation for assigned systems, frameworks, and projects.\nCollaborate with devOps, platform and security teams to ensure reliability, scalability, observability and performance of production systems.\nBuild tooling, automation, and internal utilities that improve developer experience and reduce overhead for engineering teams.\nPartner with stakeholders across the enterprise to ensure delivered solutions improve productivity and end-user experience.\nWe’d love to hear from people with…\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).\nStrong hands-on full stack web development expertise (advanced proficiency).\nDeep understanding of React design patterns, including component architecture, and modular code organization\nStrong experience with Node.js and Express for API development.\nProficiency in TypeScript and GraphQL for designing and consuming APIs\nExperience with HTML5, CSS, and modern JavaScript frameworks.\nHands-on development experience with document-oriented and relational database systems (e.g., MongoDB, Cosmos DB, SQL Server or equivalent).\nSolid understanding of UI/UX and usability principles, responsive design, accessibility, and front-end performance optimization.\nExperience working with component libraries and front end frameworks.\nExperience in setting up and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for web applications using tools like Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.\nStrong analytical, problem solving, and communication skills.\nDeep understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience implementing Micro Frontends and Module Federation (including patterns like App Injector).\nExperience designing, deploying, and managing API services in containerized and orchestrated environments, with strong understanding of \ncontainerization principles, service orchestration, and scalable distributed systems.\nFamiliarity with modern testing tools and libraries (e.g., Jest, Mocha, Cypress, Playwright, or equivalent).\nAbility to build scalable React.js applications using TypeScript\n\nAs a Starbucks partner, you (and your family) will have access to medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, and other voluntary insurance benefits. Partners have access to short-term and long-term disability, paid parental leave, family expansion reimbursement, paid vacation from date of hire*, sick time (accrued at 1 hour for every 25 hours worked), eight paid holidays, and two personal days per year. Starbucks also offers eligible partners participation in a 401(k) retirementplan with employer match, a discounted company stock program (S.I.P.), Starbucks equity program (Bean Stock), incentivized emergency savings, and financial well-being tools. Additionally, Starbucks offers 100% upfront tuition coverage for a first-time bachelor’s degree through Arizona State University’s online program via the Starbucks College Achievement Plan, student loan management resources, and access to other educational opportunities. You will also have access to backup care and DACA reimbursement. Starbucks will comply with any applicable state and local laws regarding employee leave benefits, including, but not limited to providing time off pursuant to the Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act, and in accordance with its plans and policies. This list is subject to change depending on collective bargaining in locations where partners have a certified bargaining representative. For additional information regarding partner perks and more detailed information about benefits, go to starbucksbenefits.com.\n*If you are working in CA, CO, IL, LA, ME, MA, NE, ND or RI, you will accrue vacation up to a maximum of 120 hours (190 in CA) for roles below director and 200 hours (316 in CA) for roles at director or above. For roles in other states, you will be granted vacation time starting at 120 hours annually for roles below director and 200 hours annually for roles director and above.\nThe actual base pay offered to the successful candidate will be based on multiple factors, including but not limited to job-related knowledge/skills, experience, geographical location, and internal equity. At Starbucks, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at the high end of the range for their role, and compensation decisions are dependent upon the facts and circumstances of each position and candidate.\nWe believe we do our best work when we're together, which is why we're onsite four days a week.\nJoin us andinspire witheverycup. Apply today!\nStarbucks Coffee Company is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.\nQualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with all federal, state and local ordinances. Starbucks Coffee Company is committed to offering reasonable accommodations to job applicants with disabilities. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please contact us at  or 1(888) 611-2258.","description_format":"text","description_chars":8951,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":true},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Equity","Life insurance","Parental leave","Retirement plans"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Catering & Food Services"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-31T02:39:01Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":63,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.632,"p_room":1,"age_days":2,"expected_fill_days":21,"reasons":["conf:1","stale_co","velocity","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-11-02T06:13:15Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/starbucks-application-developer-senior","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/starbucks-application-developer-senior.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-02T23:12:05Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":32649,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-03T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":7439},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=7439"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fstarbucks-application-developer-senior"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fstarbucks-application-developer-senior"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fstarbucks-application-developer-senior"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/starbucks-application-developer-senior\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fstarbucks-application-developer-senior"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3559063}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"starbucks.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3559063},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. Docs: https://alion.io/developers"}}