[Remote] Engineer I
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Best Buy is a technology-focused retailer that provides personalized technology solutions through its stores, online channels, and customer homes. The Engineer I will independently deliver well-tested product features while creating and maintaining services and data platforms for eCommerce and enterprise systems. The role also involves improving engineering efficiency, ensuring quality, collaborating with stakeholders, and supporting production systems.
Responsibilities
- Deliver code features, system components or platforms from start to finish
- Build and enhance internal libraries, tools, and processes to improve development efficiency and scalability
- Share best practices, mentor peers and foster professional growth across engineering team
- Ensure quality delivery of features and systems
- Communicate effectively both verbally and written with various business partners
- Partner with team-specific stakeholders to mitigate risk within the team and with external associates
- Participate in production tirage and support
- Improving knowledge and understanding of core concepts
Skills
- 1 or more years of relevant experience with a Bachelor's degree, Associate's degree or Coding Bootcamp/Code School OR equivalent relevant professional experience
- 1 or more years of Enterprise Software Engineering experience at scale
- 1 or more years of experience using object-oriented principles in a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) based language like Java, Groovy, or Kotlin
- 6 or more months of experience using Git
- 6 or more months of experience building applications using Spring Framework or Spring Boot
- In this role, you'll primarily work virtually from home or another non‑Best Buy location. However, you must live within a drivable distance to our corporate campus in Richfield, Minnesota
- Experience working in a Test Drive Development (TDD) environment
- Strong willingness to participate in pair programming
- Experience with Python
- Experience with GCP
- Experience developing REST APIs and microservices
- Experience building and enhancing user interfaces using Angular, React, or similar frameworks
- Experience with NoSQL data stores such as Cassandra and/or Redis
- Ability to triage and manage complex, production issues
- Experience building highly scalable and performing applications
Benefits
- Primarily work virtually from home or another non-Best Buy location, provided you live within a drivable distance to the corporate campus in Richfield, Minnesota.
- Generous employee discount
- Physical and mental well-being support
- Best Buy provides different types of leaves of absence (LOA) and potential pay sources to employees based on eligibility. The length of your LOA depends on your situation, where you live, your full-time or part-time employment status, and federal and state regulations.
- Intermittent or reduced-schedule leave is also available for certain medical or family care leaves.
- Paid time off (vacation or PTO) is offered to full-time and part-time employees based on work location, employment status, salary or hourly status (exempt/non-exempt), and years of continued or bridged service.
- Certain roles, where market norms demand it, are eligible for various forms of incentive pay to drive performance and offer recognition for achieving financial and strategic results.
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