Senior Software Engineer - Asset Protection

The Asset Protection team in Nordstrom’s Store Experience Technology organization is on a mission to reduce shrink, detect fraud, and enhance the safety of customers and employees across the Nordstrom enterprise. We build and maintain the data pipelines, services, and real-time alerting that power the tools security professionals use every day to investigate fraud and protect our stores. As a Senior Engineer on the team, you’ll own complex problems end to end — from shaping the design with product and business partners to shipping resilient, well-tested code into production. You’ll mentor other engineers, raise the bar on quality, and help us evolve our cloud-native, event-driven architecture.

Responsibilities

Write production code as a core part of your week — this is a hands-on individual contributor role, and you’ll be one of the people shipping the work, not just shaping it; Lead the design, development, and operation of complex distributed systems that process sales transactions, in-store alerts, and other business data; Build using strong development practices: write clear, maintainable code; cover it with meaningful tests; instrument it for production; and keep technical debt in check; Perform thoughtful code reviews that catch real issues, share context, and help teammates grow — and welcome the same in return on your own work; Work through design problems alongside the team — whiteboarding, debating tradeoffs, and arriving at better solutions together; Take the time to understand the why behind a problem before reaching for a solution, including the business context, the user experience, and the constraints that shaped the existing system; Partner with engineers, product managers, business stakeholders, and vendors to turn ambiguous problems into well-scoped solutions — translating business needs into functional requirements, and technical tradeoffs into language the business can act on; Mentor other engineers and help the team continuously raise its bar on quality, automation, and delivery speed; Operate with a DevOps mindset: own your service in production, including monitoring, alerting, CI/CD, and cloud infrastructure; Develop practices for delivering high-quality code with the help of AI coding assistants

Requirements

4+ years of professional experience writing, shipping, and supporting production-quality software; Strong proficiency in Java and the Spring Boot framework; Familiarity with RESTful microservices and the tools used to work with them (Postman, curl, OpenAPI/Swagger); Experience with a major public cloud (AWS or GCP) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes); Experience with event streaming and messaging (Kafka, Confluent, SQS) and the patterns that go with them; Comfort with modern infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD tooling (GitLab CI/CD, Terraform); Hands-on experience using AI coding assistants to accelerate development and a demonstrated ability to learn and refine effective practices around use; Familiarity with observability tools (New Relic, Splunk, Grafana) and a habit of instrumenting what you ship; A solid testing discipline across unit, integration, regression, and load testing; Experience with relational and/or NoSQL data stores; A track record of leading the design of complex systems and features, supported by clear technical specs and diagrams; Strong written and verbal communication; able to propose, evaluate, and defend technical designs on their merits and tradeoffs; Energized by building solutions with a team — you do your best work in collaboration, not in isolation; A willingness to question existing patterns and assumptions when it improves security, performance, maintainability, or business fit; Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or a related engineering discipline, or equivalent practical experience

Nice to have

Experience with point-of-sale systems or retail technology; GCP/BigQuery a plus; Background in fraud detection, security, or other domains where data integrity and low latency really matter; Hands-on experience designing and building RESTful microservices; Experience integrating AI agents into a professional software development workflow, with a history of shaping team practices to optimize use

Benefits

Medical/Vision, Dental, Retirement and Paid Time Away; Life Insurance and Disability; Merchandise Discount and EAP Resources; Performance-based incentives/bonuses; 401k; Medical/vision/dental/life/disability insurance options; PTO accruals; Holidays