[Hiring] Software Engineer II - Store Tech Experience Platform @DICK'S Sporting Goods

Role Description

The Store Technology Experience Platform (STEP) team is seeking a highly motivated, collaborative, and driven problem solver to join this newly formed team to help deliver cohesive, consistent, and scalable store experiences that empower and accelerate our store technology teams. The team will focus on providing core capabilities that enable individual product teams to operate as a unified platform resulting in first-class experiences within the stores. This is a fantastic and rare opportunity to be at the ground floor of establishing a team, its culture, its roadmap, and making a positive impact on multiple teams in the organization.

The team will work in at least one, if not many or all, of the following technologies creating solutions supporting the Store Technology portfolio. Proficiency and experience in at least one or more desired but not necessarily required. Software engineering and software architecture fundamentals, effective communication, collaboration, adaptability, continuous learning, and problem-solving skills are a must.

Technical Skills / Tech Stacks

• Front End Clients
  • Native Android with Kotlin
  • React Native with TypeScript
  • React web with TypeScript
• Back End Services
  • Spring Boot with Kotlin (or Java)
  • .NET with C#
  • Relational and NoSQL databases
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Containerized and Serverless Cloud Native applications
  • API-first and microservices architectures
  • Event driven architectures and messaging patterns (Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.)
  • Git source control and GitHub Actions CI/CD
  • Observability and Alerting using Open Telemetry
  • Design systems and design thinking
  • Agentic AI and LLMs

Responsibilities

• Software Development
  • Develop existing software and contribute to development of new software by analyzing and identifying areas for modification and improvement.
  • Develop new software that is fast, secure and reliable to meet defined requirements.
• Software Maintenance
  • Monitor, identify, and correct moderately complex software defects to maintain fully functioning software, with limited supervision from others.
• Technical Developments Recommendation
  • Support efforts to research and suggest ways to optimize solutions to better meet user and/or business, performance, quality needs.
• Software Roadmap
  • Maintain road map to facilitate software development and ensure the development work is prioritized in line with business requirements.
• Faults Diagnosis and Correction
  • Find root cause and resolution to limit and address issues promptly.
• Functional/Technical Requirements
  • Support collection of functional requirements using document analysis and workflow analysis to express requirements clearly and succinctly.
• Technical Persistence Layer/Legacy Database Design/Development
  • Design database resources and provide physical modeling and design services to tune database solutions for optimum performance with some support from other teammates.
• Program/Portfolio Management Support
  • Understand how to work within an established program management plan to achieve specific goals.
• Ongoing Learning and Development
  • Develop own 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.

Behavioral Competencies

• Customer Focus
  • Builds strong customer relationships and delivers customer-centric solutions.
  • Probes deeply into customer needs to identify less obvious interests or expectations.
  • Consistently goes above and beyond to understand customer requirements and surpass their expectations.
• Decision Quality
  • Makes good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward.
  • Swiftly internalizes coaching on routine issues; handles issues confidently after instruction.
  • Leverages rules and procedures to speed up decision making.
• Action Oriented
  • Takes on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm.
  • Identifies what needs to be done and acts quickly.
  • Shows optimism and enthusiasm that affects others positively.
• Collaborates
  • Builds partnerships and works collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.
  • Finds many ways to add value to the team; probes to draw out richer input from others.
• Instills Trust
  • Gains the confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity, and authenticity.
  • Consistently adheres to organizational policies and practices, even when they are unpopular or inconvenient.
• Courage
  • Steps up to address difficult issues, saying what needs to be said.
  • Is known for expressing views directly and respectfully; communicates what needs to be said.
• Tech Savvy
  • Anticipates and adopts innovations in business-building digital and technology applications.
  • Investigates technologies to learn some cutting-edge best practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent level preferred
• General Experience: Experienced practitioner able to work unsupervised (13 months to 3 years)
• Managerial Experience: Basic experience of coordinating the work of others (4 to 6 months)

Virtual Requirements

• Cameras must be on during all virtual interviews.
• AI tools are not permitted to be used by the candidate during any part of the interview process.
• Offers are contingent upon a satisfactory background check which may include ID verification.

Targeted Pay Range

$76,500.00 - $124,600.00. This is part of a competitive total rewards package that could include other components such as: incentive, equity and benefits. Individual pay is determined by a number of factors including experience, location, internal pay equity, and other relevant business considerations.