Costco Wholesale Looking for Full Stack Engineer – Membership at Seattle, WA Full Time

Costco IT is responsible for the technical future of Costco Wholesale, the third largest retailer in the world with wholesale operations in fourteen countries. Despite our size and explosive international expansion, we continue to provide a family, employee centric atmosphere in which our employees thrive and succeed. As proof, Costco ranks seventh in Forbes “World’s Best Employers”.

This is an environment unlike anything in the high-tech world and the secret of Costco’s success is its culture. The value Costco puts on its employees is well documented in articles from a variety of publishers including Bloomberg and Forbes. Our employees and our members come FIRST. Costco is well known for its generosity and community service and has won many awards for its philanthropy. The company joins with its employees to take an active role in volunteering by sponsoring many opportunities to help others.

Come join the Costco Wholesale IT family. Costco IT is a dynamic, fast-paced environment, working through exciting transformation efforts. We are building the next generation retail environment where you will be surrounded by dedicated and highly professional employees.

The Costco Membership IT team is looking for an experienced and highly-skilled Full Stack Engineer to join us in creating an exceptional member experience. The individual in this role will be challenged every day to develop and maintain robust products using modern programming languages, frameworks, and infrastructure. The ideal candidate for this role is someone who wants to build, own, and improve products that millions of people will use.

If you want to be a part of one of the worldwide BEST companies “to work for”, simply apply and let your career be reimagined.

ROLE

• Increases proficiency and understanding of relational and non-relational databases, distributed application architectures, user interfaces and user experience, quality assurance, security concerns, and business value creation.
• Adopts engineering best practices to deliver higher quality and scalable solutions.
• Participates in scrum ceremonies (sprint planning, retrospective, showcases/demos, stand-ups, backlog refinement, etc.).
• Creates and executes unit tests which validate the code changes made to support the implementation of a user story.
• Identifies deficiencies within a product / application’s code base and identifies opportunities to improve overall code quality.
• Works with team members to move user stories from the development backlog into testing and provides clarification when needed.
• Estimates, plans, and manages all implementation tasks and reports on development progress.
• Demonstrates a strong understanding of emerging technologies to support the development of new solutions.
• Collaborates with team members (e.g., Systems Architects, Systems Analysts) to define project specifications and release documentation for all phases of the product development cycle from product definition to design, through implementation.
• Conducts peer code reviews for the software changes made by other engineers within a team.
• Develops, optimizes, and implements well-designed Membership user interfaces for employees and members.
• Builds, deploys, and maintains efficient, scalable, and secure backend services and APIs that support new and existing high-performing products/applications.
• Participates in all phases of the product development cycle – defining requirements, designing the architecture and application(s), test-driven-development, deployment, maintenance, and ongoing support.
• Conducts peer code reviews for software changes made by other team members.
• Collaborates and participates in delivery pod scrum ceremonies to complete commitments on time with high quality.
• Develops, adopts, shares, and documents engineering standards and practices; mentors/coaches growing team members.
• Enhances knowledge of web application development and programming languages.

Required

• 3+ years’ of industry experience building large-scale backend systems and frontend interfaces.
• 2+ years’ of professional C# and JavaScript experience – design, develop, debug, optimize, and implement.
• Understanding of the software development process and object oriented programming.
• Experience writing high-performance production-quality code, including building REST APIs.
• Experience working as part of an Agile team (Scrum, KanBan, Extreme Programming, etc.).
• Strong verbal and written communication skills; experience and interest in collaborating with others.
• High degree of integrity, accountability, a positive attitude, and willingness to do what it takes to make the team successful.
• Strong organizational and time management skills with ability to deliver under pressure.
• Scheduling flexibility to meet the needs of the business; able to support off-hours work as required, including weekends, holidays, on-call responsibilities on a rotational basis.

Recommended

• Computer Science degree.
• Previous experience using the .NET, Angular, and Azure frameworks/platforms.
• Previous experience working within and understanding microservices architecture and SOAP APIs.
• Working knowledge of on-prem and cloud databases (Cosmos, SQL, DB2, etc.).
• Familiarity with Costco’s membership business processes.
• Familiarity with tools, such as: Azure DevOps, Microsoft VisualStudio Pro, Postman Pro, GitHub, LucidCharts, etc.
• Experience teaching, coaching, and/or mentoring others.

Required Documents

• Cover Letter
• Resume

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Pay Ranges

Level 2 – $107,500 – $137,500

Level 3 – $127,500 – $162,500

Level 4 – $152,500 – $182,500, Bonus and Restricted Stock Unit (RSU) eligible

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, health benefits – medical/dental/vision/hearing aid/pharmacy/behavioral health/employee assistance, health care reimbursement account, dependent care assistance plan, short-term disability and long-term disability insurance, AD&D insurance, life insurance, 401(k), stock purchase plan to eligible employees.

Costco is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Costco is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to [email protected]

If hired, you will be required to provide proof of authorization to work in the United States.