Crate & Barrel

Overview

We inspire purpose-filled living that brings beauty and quality to the modern home. Together, we achieve. Associates across our business drive results, innovate, and inspire. Drawn together by our shared values and passion for our customers and our brands, we deliver home furnishings that are expertly designed, responsibly sourced, and bring timeless style and function to people’s homes. From the day we opened our first store in Chicago in 1962 to the digital innovations that engage millions of customers today, our iconic brand is over 60 years in the making—and our story is still unfolding.

We’re here for it. We think you should be too. We’re looking for a driven professional with an inclusive mindset to join our team as a Developer, Transportation.

The developer is responsible for designing, developing, and optimizing our transportation management solutions, ensuring efficient and cost-effective movement of goods across our supply chain.This position requires experience in designing and developing APIs and microservices using emerging technologies, principles, and strategies within the services landscape in a highly collaborative, exciting, and fast paced atmosphere that requires great communication skills.

This position is fully remote.

A day in the life as a Developer, Transportation…

• Participate with business partners and engineering leads in the understanding of their requirements
• Develop detailed design to align with the business requirements: function and process specifications. Assist with technical design, unit test plan (where needed), functional program design, and technical program design (where needed)
• Develop a function point analysis estimate of work effort required to complete the business requirements
• Design, develop and maintain scalable APIs and microservices for middleware and partner applications using GO programming language (Golang), C#, .NET Core (3.1), node.js, bash/shell script, JSON/XML data formats
• Develop a work plan working with manager and business input and priorities
• Construction: Ensure programs are well-structured, well-documented and written to standards; conduct walkthroughs, review code and/or mappings, review unit tests
• Testing: Collaborate with Quality Assurance in preparing test environments and performing system tests. Develop system test plan; develop and assist with execution of user acceptance test. Coordinate user service requests
• Training: Participate in the definition and setup of training environments when needed.
• Installation: Participate in software installation and conversion execution
• Post-installation support: Monitor system and coordinate user service requests
• Develop, measure, communicate and manage users agreed to service levels for data currency, accuracy, and availability
• Collaborate with internal customers to determine the most efficient, cost-effective approach to meet their business requirements
• Attend technical design meetings and help define system architecture
• Work with business stakeholders to understand requirements and communicate progress
• Experience working in any public cloud platforms such as aws, gcp or azure etc.
• Provide excellent customer service to users of Crate and Barrel system software applications

What you’ll bring to the table…

• Ability to develop a technical software solution to a business problem utilized by the various business areas and specifically Transportation systems that need data transformation, mapping and transferring
• The ability to define the solution in verbal and documented states
• Ability to create estimates for software development based on technical solutions that address business requirements
• Ability to develop a work plan, taking into account the defined efforts by all contributing IT-impacted domains
• Knowledge of Golang, .NET Core, etc.
• API Development, high speed in-memory cache handling
• Ability to build integration services to Blue Yonder TMS package
• Ability to integrate with shipment visibility packages like Fourkites/Project 44 etc.
• Experience integrating with Truck Load, Less than Truck Load and Intermodal
• Experience in test driven design and domain driven design
• Experience with version control tools like Git, SVN, Bitbucket
• Experience in working in Agile methodologies (scrum or kanban)
• Experience in log analyzing tools and platforms such as AWS cloudwatch, SUMO, Elasticsearch, or Kibana is preferred
• Experience with APM tools like AppDynamics or NewRelic is preferred
• Passion for defining industry standard best practices for API Management
• Implementing industry standard best development practices
• Knowledge of third party tools/platforms like SQL, XML and Agile development tools.
• Knowledge of cloud infrastructure like AWS/GCP and Kafka streaming data
• Ability to interface with legacy host systems like the I-Series
• Listening and comprehension skills in working alongside business disciplines and other IT disciplines

We’d love to hear from you if you have…

• College degree in an applicable field of study or comparable experience
• Five or more years of software application development experience specifically in Retail supply chain portfolio and TMS implementation
• Demonstrated logical analysis and problem solving skills
• Ability to organize and prioritize workload to meet deadlines
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Excellent knowledge of the software application technologies utilized in the software application team to which the developer is assigned

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