Job Description

About Best Buy
Best Buy(TM) India is a vibrant hub of tech talent, where we're driving innovation and accelerated business outcomes for Best Buy, our customers, employees and partners every day. Our inclusive culture empowers you to learn, grow, collaborate and make a real impact.
Best Buy is North America's No. 1 tech specialty retailer, with approximately $42 billion in annual revenue and 85,000 employees worldwide. Our purpose is to enrich lives through technology, and we do that by helping personalize and humanize technology for millions of customers in our stores, online and in their homes. We're solving real human needs and helping serve our customers, employees, and partners in new ways every day.
All employees at Best Buy(TM) India work for BBY Services India LLP, which is owned and operated by subsidiaries of Best Buy Co. Inc.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of complex solutions, coding larger features from start to finish
• Actively participate in planning, and performing code and architecture reviews of their teams product
• Help ensure the quality and integrity of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) for their team and identify opportunities for improvement in how the team works, through usage of recommended tools and practices.
• Lead the triage of complex production issues across systems
• Demonstrate creativity and take initiative in solving complex problems
• As a high performer, consistently deliver a high volume of story points relative to their team
• Aware of the technology landscape, plan delivery of coarse-grained business needs spanning multiple applications
• Influence technical peers outside their team
• Set a consistent example of agile development practices and coach other engineers to work as a team with Product and Experience Design (XD)
• Create and improve internal libraries and tools
• Provide technical leadership on the product and determine technical approach
• Proactively communicate status and issues to their manager
• Collaborate with other teams to find creative solutions to customer issues
• Show a commitment to delivery deadlines, in particular seasonal and vendor partner deadlines that are critical to Best Buys continued success

Requirements

• 7+ years of relevant experience with a bachelors degree OR equivalent relevant professional experience. Including:

• Experience building highly scalable and performing applications (candidate understands considerations for state, session management, caching, consistency, concurrency, threading, messaging, and inter-system dependencies)
• Highly proficient in industry current software development techniques (patterns, principles, and processes)
• Advanced expertise in developing REST web services using Groovy, Java, Jersey, and Spring.
• Candidate must be prepared to pair program in a TDD and Agile environment with senior level engineers.

Preferred

• Experience working in an omni-channel retail environment.
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) products like Data Flow, CloudSQL, BigQuery, AI Platform, etc. is highly desirable
• Proficient in Mac OS and/or IntelliJ for development
• Any level of experience with NoSQL data stores (Riak, Cassandra, etc.) and/or Splunk is a plus.
• Knowledge of and working experience with open-source software (e.g. Apache, Tomcat, etc.).
• Experience performance testing and subsequent tuning of web services including caches, web servers and data stores.
• Experience with Cloud Computing platforms (e.g. Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google App Engine, Hadoop, etc.)
• DevOps infrastructure experience (chef, puppet, open stack)

About Best Buy
Best Buy India is a vibrant hub of tech talent, where we're driving innovation and accelerated business outcomes for Best Buy, our customers, employees and partners every day. Our inclusive culture empowers you to learn, grow, collaborate, and make a real impact.
Best Buy is North America's No. 1 tech specialty retailer, with approximately $42 billion in annual revenue and 85,000 employees worldwide. Our purpose is to enrich lives through technology, and we do that by helping personalize and humanize technology for millions of customers in our stores, online and in their homes. We're solving real human needs and helping serve our customers, employees, and partners in new ways every day.

• This position is based in Bengaluru.
• Best Buy India operates under a hybrid work model (in office / remote) with an expectation for employees to be in the office three days a week Generally, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
• As a global organization, maintaining collaboration across the globe is a key proposition. Within the framework of established guidelines, employees may be required to engage in extended hours during critical periods.

All employees at Best Buy India work for BBY Services India LLP, which is owned by subsidiaries of Best Buy Co. Inc.

Skills Required