What are the responsibilities and job description for the Software Engineer - eCom Fulfillment SAP EWM position at Costco?
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 in eCom Fulfillment at Costco holds a technical leadership role, engineering, and operationalizing solutions following the strategic vision of the organization's Fulfillment Technology. In this capacity, the Software Engineer will be instrumental in building the foundation to execute the long-term technical strategy, embracing innovation, and providing hands-on experience as a technical leader for the team; supporting the current SAP EWM technology, but willing to grow and transition as our technical footprint evolves. This role demands a dynamic approach, blending direct technical guidance, mentorship, and active participation in risk and growth management. Collaboration with the business and IT leadership teams is integral, fostering a hands-on and collective effort towards achieving organizational goals.
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ROLE
● Develops the conceptual systems architecture design and the supporting technologies needed to enable new and/or enhanced functionality within a given product/application, applying principles that promote availability, reusability, interoperability, and security into the design framework.
● Supports release planning activities in conjunction with Product Owners and teams.
● Identifies high level requirements to support the definition and refinement of a robust testing strategy.
● Supports the Product Owner with the identification and definition of enablers / work items to support the architectural runway of a given product/application.
● Defines the non-functional requirements (e.g., performance, security, resiliency, etc.) which support the development of epics and user stories aligned to a value stream.
● Identifies technical dependencies across several product / application teams to support the implementation of new or enhanced functionality.
● Performs development, optimization, and automation activities to support the implementation of a product/application.
● Develops and implements front-end architecture to support user interface concepts.
● 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.
● Drives engineering best practices to deliver higher quality and scalable solutions.
● Provides the team with the development strategy, solution recommendations, and estimates for a given product/application.
● 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.
● Uses test driven development (TDD) practices to assist with the detection/recognition of software defects early in the development process.
● Estimates, plans, and manages all implementation tasks and reports on development progress.
● Designs, builds, debugs, optimizes, and implements solutions in approved tool sets and databases.
● Develops high quality, efficient, and fault tolerant software.
● Supports, extends, and builds automated CI and CD pipelines.
● Designs and delivers DevSecOps automation for app deployment and testing.
● Uses APM/monitoring tools such as Dynatrace/Splunk and browser tools to perform request purepath/waterfall analysis to identify bottlenecks and suggest improvements.
● Participates in the development and documentation of department standards and best practices, and mentors junior engineers.
● Provides the team with solution recommendations and estimates for a given product/application.
● Identifies deficiencies within a product/application’s code base and identifies opportunities to improve overall code quality.
● 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.
● Designs and develops extensions, data interfaces, and user interfaces on the SAP EWM platform.
● Supports release planning activities in conjunction with Product Owners and teams.
● Applies knowledge to practical and sustainable applications and capabilities.
● Influences and drives adoption of best practices and high-quality standards within the team and throughout the division.
● Ensures that proposed and existing systems are aligned with organizational standards, goals, and objectives.
● Shares relevant information among teams.
● Integrates diverse solution components across multiple platforms using industry standard interfaces.
● Tests and resolves problems, performs root cause analysis, identifies gaps, recommends solutions and preventative measures, and leads team members to solution delivery plans.
● Runs proof of concepts and uses diagnostic/debugging skills to solve current challenges in multi-platform systems. Orchestrates reviews for system additions and/or enhancements.
● Provides leadership/mentoring to team members, implements development efficiencies, creates appropriate documentation, drives operational efficiencies and technical growth within the team, and supports the release model Optimizes team efficiency and performance through high level technical direction.
● Uses subject matter expertise to support industry standard source control and source change management techniques. Performs 24x7 on-call support as scheduled or as needed.
REQUIRED
● 5 years’ of computer science fundamentals (object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis) experience.
● 5 years’ experience in ABAP Development.
● 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.
● Ability to travel occasionally and for onsite deployments, as needed.
● Scheduling flexibility to meet the needs of the business, including nights and weekends.
Recommended
● Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science, Informatics, Data science or related technical discipline.
● Relevant industry certifications are a plus.
● Experience in retail, manufacturing, ecommerce, supply chain.
● Experience with integrations to SAP (WES, MHE, TMS).
● Experience in middleware technologies (MQ, PI/PO).
● Experience with the following technologies:
○ Hana DB
○ T-SQL
○ Stored procedures
○ Report Building in SAP
○ SAP BW
○ SAP security awareness
○ Power BI
○ Java
Required Documents
● Cover Letter
● Resume
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Pay Ranges:
Level 3 - $130,000 - $160,000
Level SR - $150,000 - $190,000, Bonus and Restricted Stock Unit (RSU) eligible
Level Staff - $180,000 - $225,000, 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.
Salary : $160,000
