About:
Macys is proudly Americas Department Store. For more than 160 years, Macys has served generations at every stage of their lives. Customers come to us for fashion, value and celebration. Now is an exciting time to join Macys, Inc. The face of retail is changing, and change requires innovation.
Macys Tech provides modern tools, platforms, and services to all parts of the business. Our team supports millions of customers in connected commerce across the technology hub at Macys Join our team to help shape the future of e-commerce and set the pace in retail technology. Whether focused on store technology, supply chain tech, application security, merchandising systems, or the mobile app youll have opportunities to grow your career while finding meaningful ways to make a difference.
Job Overview:
Lead, Software Engineering at Macys Technology reports to the Manager, Software Engineering, and plays a key role in leading the engineering technical direction and development of enterprise solutions. As a lead engineer, you serve as the technical anchor for the engineering team that supports a product. You create, own and are responsible for the application architecture that best serves the product in its functional and non-functional needs. You identify and drive architectural changes to accelerate feature development or improve the quality of service (or both). You have deep and broad engineering skills and are capable of standing up an architecture in its whole on your own, but you choose to influence a wider team by acting as a force multiplier. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs. Perform other duties as assigned.
Essential Functions:
- Design, implement, and lead direction in monitoring architecture that provides stability, resilience, efficiency, security, and flexibility while employing best practices for enterprise applications
- Create/review technical documentation and provide leadership including design guidance to team members
- Design automation to streamline and improve onboarding as well as day-to-day maintenance and deliver self-service automation for customers
- Support life cycle management by providing timely product roadmaps to keep platforms up to date, support the emerging development architecture and retire aging systems
- Lead a multi-tiered global team providing 24x7x365 support
- Work collaboratively in a group of passionate developers in a high energy, fast paced and outcome-oriented environment
- Lead a technical team by example and foster growth in junior team members
- Regular, dependable attendance and punctuality
Qualifications and Competencies
- BA/BS in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Mathematics or related field strongly preferred
- 3+ years experience programming with at least one of the following languages: Javascript, TypeScript, Php, Python
- 3+ years of experience with relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc)
- Experience using Git for version control code repository
- Experience with Agile task management tools (ex. Jira, Confluence)
- Experience working with/building RESTful APIs
- Experience with Php MVC frameworks is a plus (ex. CodeIgniter)
- Experience working in a DevOps-oriented culture that prioritizes continuous integration and continuous deployment
- Ability to effectively share technical information, communicate technical issues and solutions to all levels of business
- Able to juggle multiple projects – can identify primary and secondary objectives, prioritize time and communicate timeline to team members
- Ability and desire to take product/project ownership
- Ability to work a flexible schedule based on department and Company needs
This job description is not all-inclusive, and Macys Inc. reserves the right to amend this job description at any time. Macys Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to a diverse and inclusive work environment. Candidates for positions in San Francisco ONLY can review their rights and the Companys obligations under SFPC Art. 49 here. Candidates for positions in Los Angeles ONLY can review their rights and the Companys obligations under LA MC Ch. XVIII Art. 9 here. Candidates for positions in Philadelphia ONLY can review their rights and the Companys obligations under PC Ch. 9-3500 here.
