Senior Full Stack Software Engineer (Hybrid, Seattle)
$142,000–$220,500 year
HybridSeattle, Washington, United States
Seattle, Washington, United StatesHybridFull Time$142,000–$220,500 yearSenior LevelEnterprise
Full TimeSenior LevelEnterprise
Job Summary
Build and evolve core platform services by owning microservices that power product information management, integrating with Kafka-based event streaming and Temporal workflow orchestration. Design React-based internal tools for merchants and data stewards to manage catalogs and govern organizational entities, while driving data quality through validation and entity resolution capabilities. Participate in on-call rotations, build observability using New Relic and structured logging, and contribute to architecture decisions that balance short-term delivery with long-term platform health.
Required Qualifications
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience
- significant delivery of both backend services and frontend applications
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems Engineering, or Data Engineering
- Strong verbal, written, and diagramming communication skills
- ability to explain technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Proficient in more than one programming language
- Strong backend fundamentals
- comfortable designing and building microservices in Java
- working with relational databases (PostgreSQL)
- integrating with event-driven architectures (Kafka)
- Modern frontend skills
- built production React applications with TypeScript
- care about usability, accessibility, and creating tools that people enjoy
- Infrastructure fluency
- comfortable working with containerized deployments (Docker, Kubernetes)
- defining infrastructure as code with Terraform
- configuring CI/CD pipelines
- Distributed systems thinking
- understand the tradeoffs of eventual consistency
- can reason about failure modes in a service-oriented architecture
- have data-driven perspectives on topics like idempotency, schema evolution, and data partitioning
- Ownership mentality
- do more than write code — you own outcomes
- think about observability from the start
- write runbooks
- show up when your systems need you
- Collaborative and communicative
- thrive in cross-functional environments
- can explain a technical tradeoff to a product manager
- pair with a junior engineer on a complex problem
- contribute to architectural discussions with clarity and conviction
- Bias toward simplification
- actively seek ways to reduce complexity
- remove bottlenecks
- make systems easier to operate and evolve
- You must be willing to work onsite at the Nordstrom Seattle office a minimum of 4 days/week
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with agentic development
- a perspective on how to get the most from agents during the software development lifecycle
- Experience with workflow orchestration tools like Temporal
- You care about usability, accessibility, and creating tools that people enjoy
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