Software Engineer II - Pricing (REMOTE)

DICK'S Sporting Goods is committed to creating an inclusive and diverse workforce, and they are seeking a Software Engineer II for their Pricing team. This role involves designing, developing, and maintaining distributed backend systems that power pricing capabilities, collaborating with various teams to deliver high-quality solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Drive development of existing software and contribute to development of new software by analyzing and identifying areas for modification and improvement
• Monitor, identify, and correct more complex software defects to maintain fully functioning software, leveraging the support and skill of more junior teammates
• Produce multiple concepts and prototypes to design digital products/services
• Research and suggest ways to optimize solutions to better meet user and/or business, performance, quality needs
• Drive maintenance road map to facilitate software development and ensure the development work is prioritized in line with business requirements
• Find root cause and resolution to limit and address issues promptly
• Assign short-term work schedules to a team based on storyboarding/backlog in order to achieve expectations while following established timelines
• Develop own and more junior team member capabilities by participating in assessment and development planning activities as well as formal and informal training and coaching; gain or maintain external professional accreditation where relevant to improve performance and fulfill personal potential. Maintain an understanding of relevant technology, external regulation, and industry best practices through ongoing education, attending conferences, and reading specialist media
• Contribute to work within an established program management plan to achieve specific goals
• Guide and deliver the design distribution of basic database resources and provide physical modeling and design services to tune database solutions for optimum performance
• Support the collection functional requirements using document analysis and workflow analysis to express the requirements in terms of target user roles and goals

Requirements:

• 1+ years of experience in software development, with some Back End experience
• Solid understanding of web technologies and asynchronous programming
• Experience building and consuming RESTful APIs
• Familiarity with agile development methodologies
• A collaborative mindset and eagerness to learn from and support your teammates
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
• Passion for pair programming and swarming tough problems
• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent level preferred
• Experienced practitioner able to work unsupervised (13 months to 3 years)
• Basic experience of coordinating the work of others (4 to 6 months)
• Experience with several of the following: Backend: Java/Kotlin, Spring Boot
• Unit testing frameworks, test coverage tools
• Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines
• Familiarity with cloud architecture (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Kafka, RabbitMQ
• Git and git-based workflows
• Postgres & Elastic Search