Pampered Chef

Purpose:

The mission for this role is to follow established best engineering practices, while working with team to deliver business value driven features with high quality, and to continuously improve as a team and individual.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop, test, and deploy web applications and features using the MERN/MEAN stack.
• Build and maintain scalable e-commerce APIs 
• Assist in the design and implementation of software solutions, ensuring they meet high-quality standards.
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code while adhering to coding standards, best practices, and associated documentation
• Identify areas of improvement within the team, or systems
• Participate in peer-reviews of solution designs and related code
• Participate in Agile Scrum ceremonies, such as sprint planning, daily stand-ups, retrospectives, and sprint reviews.
• Debug and resolve software defects and issues as part of ongoing maintenance and support.

Competencies:

• Communicates effectively
• Demonstrates self-awareness
• Instills trust
• Tech Savvy

Measures of Success:

• Contribute to team velocity
• Contribute to team reducing the average number of ticket cycle time IN PROGRESS to be RESOLVED 
• Contribute to team delivering more story tickets
• Contribute to team reducing the amount of interruptions 
• Work with team to deliver at least 90% story completion in a sprint 

Education and Experience:

• Bachelors in Computer Science/Engineering, Software Engineering, CIS, or MIS
• 0-3 years of experience are required, including internships and co-ops
• Strong foundation in web development and familiarity with the MERN/MEAN stack (MongoDB, Express, React, Node.js).
• Knowledge of JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and related web technologies.
• Knowledge of event driven concepts and tools, such as Kafka.
• Basic understanding of Agile Scrum methodologies and version control systems (e.g., Git).

About Pampered Chef: 

Established in 1980 by Doris Christopher, Pampered Chef is a global marketing enterprise and a proud Berkshire Hathaway company since 2002. We develop a multi-purpose, high-quality and unique kitchen product line that includes time-saving kitchen tools, cookware, cutlery, stoneware, and pantry products serving millions of customers around the world. We support a large network of independent consultants with their direct sales efforts in addition to our corporate ecommerce business. 

We celebrate the power that mealtimes have to become something more: a way to transform relationships, share stories, create traditions, and build happier and richer lives. But, with today’s expectations, we know finding the mealtime win can be difficult. We’re here to help bridge that gap between the ideal mealtime and the realities of today. We do this through our distinctive, high-quality kitchen tools, parties that show you how to make delicious, timesaving recipes, and the opportunity to join our supportive international community of more than 50,000 consultants. 

Pampered Chef is committed to providing a workplace where coworkers can do their best work, whether at home or in our Addison office location. This role will have the opportunity to work collaboratively, both in our Addison office and virtually, with leaders, and cross-functional partners to measure, test, learn, and improve our customers’ mealtime journey.