ABOUT THE POSITION
Although we're an apparel and footwear-focused company, technology is central to everything we do. Columbia Sportswear’s Digital Technology (CDT) group enables an IT infrastructure and applications across four global brands, a global supply chain, and 500+ geographically dispersed stores. These teams support in-store, mobile, and data platforms to enhance customer interface and service in an ever-evolving industry.
The Software Engineer designs, develops, tests, deploys, monitors, and supports software solutions. This role ensures quality, security, privacy, reliability, availability, maintainability, performance, compatibility and integrations of solutions throughout. This person advances the team's technical foundation to deliver modern, simple, and secure solutions, and lift engineering skills within the squad. The role adopts DevOps practices to improve efficiency and confidence of software delivery. This role partners with Architects, Product Managers, and Agile Leaders to implement and refine technical architectural designs in alignment with enterprise standards, and to deliver software in an agile way with continuous improvement in mind.
HOW YOU’LL MAKE A DIFFERENCE
- Development:
- Design & Implementation: Responsible for design, development, testing, deployment, maintenance, monitoring, and support of platforms and applications. Build robust REST APIs and middleware using modern languages and frameworks. Build end-to-end integration workflows using Enterprise Integration Patterns (e.g., Message Queuing, Publish/Subscribe, Request/Response). Implement complex data mapping and transformation logic to ensure seamless communication between systems. Maintain thoughtful application design that promotes reuse, portability, and ease of code maintenance. Build subject matter expertise in the business area
- Quality & Performance: Establish and manage quality standards. Leverage automation where possible to create efficiency and reliability in delivery. Ensure application performance, uptime, and scale. Implement robust unit testing suites that reduce production bugs. Troubleshoot and fix bugs, security risks, and bottlenecks. Identify patterns and potential solutions related to incoming defects to improve software efficiency. Improve software development lifecycle. Create and maintain support playbooks
- Observability: Implement comprehensive logging, monitoring, and alerting strategies using tools such as Application Insights and Grafana. Monitor and observe health, availability, and performance of software in production to provide appropriate application support. Diagnose performance issues found in monitoring. Identify and implement new proactive alerting mechanisms to inform the squad of issues before problems reach consumers/stakeholders.
- Technical Advancement: Employ DevOps practices to advance the technical foundation of solutions, driving advances in quality, security, privacy, reliability, availability, maintainability, and performance. Stay current on the technology landscape. Ensure solutions stay modern, simple, and secure.
- Innovation: Explore new technologies and ways of software delivery. Create proof of concepts to experiment new ideas. Inform recommendations based on learnings from POCs.
- Product Backlog & Roadmap Input: Contribute to and help refine the team's backlog. Apply knowledge to partner with teammates and the Product Owner to break down work into reasonable sizes that can be accomplished in a single iteration. Ensure stories have clearly understood value and defined acceptance criteria. Help inform delivery estimates (story points), prioritization, identify dependencies, and influence the product roadmap. Generate stories for backlog to address performance, non-functional requirements, tech debt, modernization, simplification, etc.
- Agile Delivery: Participate in agile ceremonies, including daily stand-up, backlog refinement, planning, review/demo, and retrospectives. Help drive collaboration within the team through practices such as pair programming. Actively seek ways to drive continuous improvement within team.
- Architecture & Design: Seek to understand application architecture for the squad's broader area of responsibility, including partner teams. Start to partner with Solution Architects to understand, define, and adopt enterprise patterns and technology goals. Implement reference architectures with tool selection and implementation to deliver cost-effective solutions that drive the right business value. Develop fault-tolerant, decoupled systems by implementing resiliency patterns such as Circuit Breakers, automated retries, and Dead Letter Queues.
- Mentoring/Team Development: Mentor junior and intermediate individuals in the squad on technical delivery. Work to build technical skills in teammates through direction, example, and by creating opportunities for others to learn.
YOU ARE
- A collaborative problem-solver who communicates effectively across technical and non-technical audiences, explains difficult or sensitive information clearly, and works to build consensus on complex topics
- Self-driven and continuously learning, with the ability to quickly adapt to new technologies, tools, and shifting priorities while independently analyzing issues with a moderate degree of autonomy
- A team-oriented mentor who lifts the skills of junior and intermediate teammates through direction, example, and by creating opportunities for others to learn
- A strong communicator and collaborator with excellent project and time management skills, able to manage multiple responsibilities and partner expectations across geographies and time zones
YOU HAVE
- Bachelor’s degree, applicable certification or equivalent experience.
- 5 – 8 years’ professional experience
- Strong proficiency in C#, .Net and associated frameworks
- Experience with Azure Cloud technologies including services such as App Services, Azure Functions, Logic Apps, Service Bus, and SQL
- Hands-on experience building and consuming RESTful APIs and implementing integration patterns between enterprise systems
- Understanding of DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and tools such as Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions
- Knowledge of software design patterns, data structures, and object-oriented programming concepts
- Familiarity with automated testing frameworks and test-driven development practices
- Exposure to supply chain technology solutions is preferred
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This job description is not meant to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities, but constitutes a general definition of the position's scope and function in the company.