Job ID: JOB_ID_5374
Job Summary:
The External Content domain team is responsible for bringing to BestBuy.com the content generated by customers and third-party partners, using that data to help inform customers about products they are looking to purchase. The team builds and maintains scalable microservices and batch-processing platforms that ingest, enrich, store, and serve user-generated content for Best Buy’s eCommerce and enterprise systems. Our culture is highly collaborative, prioritizing agility, code simplicity, operational excellence, and consistently high-quality software delivery.
Position Summary/Job Description:
- Delivers complex, well-tested, and reliable product features with minimal oversight.
- Excels at breaking down large problems and demonstrates depth across software development lifecycle phases, including concept, design, testing, and deployment.
- Develops solutions and optimizations that improve performance across the full application stack.
- Comfortable independently triaging complex issues across multiple environments in a fast-paced, dynamic setting.
- Actively engages in pair programming, daily standups, sprint retrospectives, backlog grooming, and user story mapping.
Core Team Hours:
- 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Required Skills and Experience:
- 5+ years of experience building highly scalable, high-performing applications using Java, Spring Boot, and Gradle with strong object-oriented design skills.
- Experience with Test Driven Development (TDD), including writing unit and integration tests using JUnit, Mockito, and/or the Spock Framework.
- Experience with streaming and messaging platforms such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or Google Pub/Sub.
- Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins or GitHub Actions.
- Experience designing distributed application architectures that leverage NoSQL data stores such as Apache Cassandra for high throughput at scale.
- Experience with search and indexing systems such as Apache Solr for large-scale data access and query performance.
- Strong communicator and collaborator who works effectively across cross-functional teams, proactively brings ideas to the table, and takes initiative rather than waiting to be directed.
- Experience with front-end technologies including JavaScript, ReactJS, and NodeJS.
- Experience with container platforms such as Docker.
- Experience designing, testing, and deploying scalable solutions on Google Cloud Platform utilizing services such as BigQuery, Cloud Functions, Cloud Run, and Dataflow.
- Experience with off-heap caching solutions such as Memcached.
- Experience leveraging AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot to accelerate development workflows.
- Ability to triage and manage complex, production issues.
Special Requirements
Visa constraints: Citizen, GC, GC-EAD, EAD-H4. Screening steps: Resume review, teams interview. Interview modes: 90 min teams interview. Domain restrictions: External Content domain team. Location preference: Local to Richfield, MN (onsite 2-3 days/week). Other: Must have valid LinkedIn, no more than 4-page resume, no short-term projects, no gaps.
Compensation & Location
Salary: $60 – $80 per year (Estimated)
Location: Richfield, MN
Recruiter / Company – Contact Information
Recruiter / Employer: Best Buy
Email: ishek.kumar@steneral.com
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