Sr Engineer - Store Technology

Come work for us!

We are looking for dedicated employees to join our team to help our customers have the best experience possible every time they enter a JD Finish Line store.

Our employees are key to our success.

The Sr. Engineer

• Store Technology will assist in building solutions to be leveraged across sales channels to create a frictionless experience for our customers; assists in transforming the way applications are designed across sales channels. This individual should effectively exhibit JD Finish Line's core values of Customer, People, Winning, Community, and Financial Responsibility in everything they do by performing the following key duties:

Key Components

• Architects, codes and implements solutions that achieve the business requirements.

• Supporting and enhancing our new platform on which applications will be built, leveraging a microservices architecture, Apache Kafka, Spring Boot, Docker, Angular and Kubernetes in the cloud.

• Implementing CI/CD, monitoring and other DevOps practices surrounding this platform

• Helping other engineers to learn and adopt these technologies and techniques

• Innovating, driving, and defining high impact technology that creates solutions that positively impacts project delivery.

• Evangelizing and implementing engineering and testing best practices across the company (code reviews, SCM conventions, tools, etc).

• Assesses and develops new technologies to improve efficiency and achieve better results.

• Works with 3rd party, architects, engineers and product developers in both troubleshooting and design capacity.

• Provides assistance to other team members, expand the team knowledge of software development methodologies.

• Strong engineering mindset and attention to quality and detail - clean code, automated testing, peer review.

• Ability to collaborate with other software architects and engineers

• Demonstrated success leading others engineers, providing technical direction and leadership

• Strong collaboration and team-building skills. Ability to influence, mentor and develop skills in other technologists.

• Strong ability and willingness to learn and adopt new technologies to help Finish Line IT be more effective

• Additional duties and projects as required.

Technical Components

• Proficient in developing HTML code, CSS, and Java Scripts

• J2EE or JAVA

• Experience with development in Spring framework, experience with Spring Boot is a plus

• Strong experience with relational and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB

• Experience with developing RESTful services/APIs using JSON and/or XML

• Experience with messaging technologies such as MQ, JMS, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, experience with Apache Kafka is a plus

• Understanding of containerized application development with Docker

• Experience with front end development (HTML, CSS, Javascript). Experience with client-side frameworks such as Angular, React or Ember.

• Foundation/Bootstrap, LESS/SASS and JSTL tag libraries. Foundation 6 is a plus.

Required Education and/or Experience

Bachelor's degree (BA/BS) from a four-year college or university in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering or a related discipline or equivalent experience required. 4 - 6 years of eCommerce development required preferably utilizing Java; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Sit for more than 6 hours per shift

• Use hands to finger, handle and feel

• Reach with hands and arms

• Talk and/or hear

• Stand for up to 2 hours at a time regularly

• Walk or move from one location to another regularly

• Periodically may need to climb, balance, stoop, kneel, or crouch

• Lift and/or move up to 10 pounds regularly and up to 50 pounds occasionally

• Punctuality and regular attendance consistent with the company's policies are required for the position.

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Physical Demands

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The company reserves the right to modify this job description with or without notice. Employees may be asked to perform additional duties outside of normal job scope on a temporary basis per company policy.

EEOC Statement:

The Finish Line, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to complying with all federal, state, and local EEO laws. The Finish Line, Inc. prohibits discrimination against employees and applicants for employment based on the individual's race or color, religion or creed, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, marital status, sex, pregnancy status, age, military status, disability, or any other protected characteristic or class protected by law. The Finish Line, Inc. provides reasonable accommodation for disabilities in accordance with applicable laws.

Need accessibility assistance to apply?

Applicants who require accessibility assistance to submit an employment application can either call Finish Line at (317) 613-6890 or email us at talentacquisition@finishline.com. A member of our Talent Acquisition team will respond as soon as reasonably possible. (This email address and phone number is only for individuals seeking accommodation when applying for a job.)