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Our Technology team loves the way they feel and thrive at work, with:\n· Small, empowered teams that have fun delivering real value for our customers\n· A culture that values a 50-year legacy while eagerly embracing the future\nWant to be part of this? We currently have an exciting opportunity for Sr Software Engineer to join our Tailored Technology team. Tailored Brands is modernizing the technology that supports its rental platform. The platform currently includes Oracle Forms, Oracle Reports, Oracle databases, and PL/SQL, while the modernization roadmap is introducing Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, and modern service-based architecture.\nWe are looking for a backend-focused Software Engineer who can contribute to this modernization effort while helping support and enhance the existing platform. The ideal candidate brings strong Java backend engineering experience, sound database and integration fundamentals, and an interest in learning and working with Oracle Forms and Reports. Prior Forms and Reports experience is helpful but not required.\nWhat you’ll do\n· Build, enhance, test, and support backend applications and services for Tailored Brands’ rental platform.\n· Design, develop, and maintain Java/Spring Boot services and REST APIs as part of the platform modernization roadmap.\n· Participate in the incremental modernization of legacy application and database logic into maintainable Java-based services.\n· Integrate modern services with Oracle databases, existing application components, and internal or third-party REST APIs.\n· Support, enhance, troubleshoot, and maintain existing Oracle Forms and Oracle Reports applications using version 14c and above.\n· Create, modify, and maintain Oracle database objects, including stored procedures, packages, functions, triggers, views, and queries.\n· Analyze and resolve application, integration, data, and production-support issues in a timely manner.\n· Debug issues across service, database, integration, and user-interface layers to identify root causes and implement durable fixes.\n· Write and optimize SQL queries and contribute to application and database performance tuning.\n· Develop basic Unix/Linux scripts to support automation, monitoring, deployments, and application operations.\n· Work across multiple projects and priorities while communicating effectively with technical and business stakeholders.\n· Contribute to technical design, code reviews, automated testing, documentation, and deployment practices.\n· Learn and document existing rental-platform business processes and legacy application behavior to support safe modernization decisions.\n· Apply secure coding, data integrity, observability, and operational-support practices across legacy and modern solutions.\n· Perform additional duties as assigned.\nWhat you’ll bring\n· Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field; equivalent practical experience may be considered.\n· 8+ years of experience in software engineering, application development, application programming/analysis, or a similar role.\n· Professional experience developing backend applications or services with Java; Spring Boot experience is preferred.\n· Experience designing, developing, or consuming REST APIs and working with service integrations.\n· Understanding of microservices principles, object-oriented design, common design patterns, and software development lifecycle practices.\n· Experience with source control, automated testing, code reviews, and CI/CD practices.\n· Experience with relational databases; Oracle database experience is a plus.\n· Experience reading, understanding, and troubleshooting SQL or database-driven application logic.\n· Oracle SQL and PL/SQL experience is a plus, but not required.\n· Prior Oracle Forms and/or Oracle Reports experience is helpful but not required. Candidates must be willing to learn and support the existing Oracle Forms and Reports platform.\n· Experience troubleshooting applications across service, database, integration, and user-interface layers.\n· Familiarity with Unix/Linux command-line tools and scripting for support or automation.\n· Understanding of relational concepts including indexes, data types, entity-relationship diagrams, normalization, cardinality, transactions, and data integrity.\n· Experience with API design, service integration, messaging, observability, and backend testing is preferred.\n· Experience with retail, rental, inventory, order processing, or purchase-order systems is helpful but not required.\n· Curiosity and openness to adopting modern engineering practices, including responsible use of AI-assisted development tools.\n· Strong analytical, communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.\n· Self-motivated, detail-oriented, flexible, and comfortable working in a changing modernization environment.\nIf you see yourself in this role, but fall short in any areas above, apply anyway! We love to invest in our team members!\nThe Best Kept Secret in Retail\nTailored Brands is North America’s leading specialty retailer of menswear, famous for world-class customer service and unique offerings like tailoring and custom suits. We are best known by our brands, including Men’s Wearhouse, Jos. A. Bank, K&G Fashion Superstore, and Moores Clothing for Men in Canada.\nWe are emerging from the pandemic with incredible momentum. We own a unique and special market segment experiencing record-level demand. This has inspired our 3-year journey to become Legendary; an exciting strategy that leans heavily upon a strong technology foundation.\nWith over 1,000 stores across the US and Canada, 15,000 employees, and over 35 million customers, we’re the perfect size! Large enough to demand leading-edge enterprise-worthy technology, but small enough to move quickly and empower our teams with significant scope & autonomy.\n\nApply now to power your career journey to Legendary!\nBenefits\nThis role is eligible for health, dental and vision insurance, prescription drug, retirement savings (401k, employer-funded retirement plans, deferred compensation, and other defined-benefit or defined-contribution), life insurance, accident and disability, paid time off for sick leave, vacation (80 hours per year), bereavement, jury duty, holidays (9 days per year), wellbeing program, commuter, adoption assistance, legal services, and employee merchandise discounts.\nWork-Life Balance\nWe understand the demands of work, school, family, and personal responsibilities. Through our work-life resources and programs we offer services for every stage of life to help you manage the day-to-day needs. We offer programs such as:\n· Meeting-Free Fridays (encouraged) | so you can catch up on work and self-development\n· Summer Fridays | from Memorial Day to Labor Day so you can enjoy a head-start to the weekend\n· Holiday Early Departure | close out early the business day before a company observed holiday\nWork Environment, Physical & Mental Demands\nAbility to sit and work at a computer keyboard for extended periods of time\nAbility to stoop, kneel, bend at the waist, and reach daily\nAble to lift and move up to 25 pounds occasionally\nMust utilize visual acuity, speech and hearing, hand and eye coordination and manual dexterity necessary to operate a computer and office equipment\nHours regularly exceed 40 hours per week, as work dictates. This position follows a hybrid work schedule, working from our Houston, TX corporate office Tuesday through Thursday and remotely on Monday and Friday. \nNote: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. 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