Software Engineer - Marketing/Ad Technology

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 eighth 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.

Software Engineers perform development work across the technology stack (both front-end/back-end expertise). They are versatile in how they can add value, demonstrating the ability to manage the completion of projects that involve databases, backend services or the development of front end applications. They should be able to demonstrate a strong understanding of emerging technologies to support the development of new solutions. Software Engineers understand the full technology stack and underlying applications, services, and databases in order to ensure optimal performance.

The Software Engineer will develop and enhance our Martech/AdTech platform. In this role, you will lead the design, prototype, and delivery of technology-driven software products using advanced technologies like Spark, and Spark Streaming.

Your responsibilities will include managing large-scale data processes, implementing distributed systems, and deriving insights to optimize advertising strategies. You will collaborate with multiple engineering teams and cross-functional groups to translate business needs into robust technical solutions, mentor junior team members, and ensure best practices in software development. This position requires a strong background in computer science and experience in marketing technologies, demonstrating a blend of technical leadership and project management skills.

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

• Develop, build, and maintain high-performance APIs and software services for a large-scale Retail Media Network. This includes managing code robustness, reusability, deployment, monitoring, scalability, security, and performance across test, integration, and production environments.

• Plan and implement enhancements to application components to boost functionality, resiliency, usability, and security. This includes troubleshooting, root cause analysis, defect analysis from past projects, and preventive measures to avoid recurrence.

• Understand and translate business and technical requirements, assisting in the refinement of broader solutions and the creation of simple, modular, and extensible designs for the product/solution.

• Define and refine high-level requirements, non-functional requirements, and robust testing strategies to support the development of epics and user stories aligned with business values. Identify technical dependencies across product and application teams to facilitate the implementation of new or enhanced functionalities.

• Actively participate in Agile Scrum ceremonies, including sprint planning, retrospectives, showcases/demos, daily stand-ups, and backlog refinement. Create and execute unit tests to validate code changes and ensure alignment with user story implementations.

• Collaborate with project managers, stakeholders, and team members to conceptualize, design, test, and release products. This includes creating technical design documents, setting realistic estimates, and promoting best practices, continuous learning, and the adoption of new technologies and methodologies. Engage in knowledge sharing and present technical designs to gain consensus and support strategic initiatives.

• 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.

• Engages in continuous learning and knowledge sharing, influencing the adoption of new technologies and methodologies, and presenting technical designs to gain consensus and support strategic initiatives.

REQUIRED - 4+ years of experience in the following areas:

● Experience in advertising domain (AdTech)

● Experience in the following areas: retail, manufacturing, ecommerce, supply chain.

● Computer science fundamentals (object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis) experience.

● Experience developing software features to streamline and scale streaming and batch jobs for data intensive applications.

● Experience working with ISV/IT APIs and developing integrating them with big data platforms.

● Experience integrating ISV/IT code bases into front end experiences.

● Experience in internet-scale distributed technologies (e.g. Solr, Kafka, Mem Cache, etc.).

● Experience in enhancing or implementing new features using Spark with Scala/Java, Spark or Kafka streaming.

● Experience in maintaining and improving existing codebases and peer review code changes.

● Experience documenting and demonstrating solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments, and clear code.

Recommended

● Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science, Informatics, Data science or related technical discipline.

● Relevant industry certifications are a plus.

● Experience with the following technologies:

● Azure/GCP/ Databricks.

● Java.

● Hadoop/ PIG/ HIVE / Spark.

● Criteo/ Kevel/ Skai .

● LiveRamp/ Transunion.

● Ember/ React for Dashboarding (optional).

● Adobe Experience Platform (AEP) and other Adobe products.

Required Documents

● Cover Letter

● Resume

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Pay Ranges:

Level 3 - $130,000 - $160,000

Level 4 - $150,000 - $190,000, 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 IT-Recruiting@costco.com

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