Junior Software Engineer

About the job

Purpose:

Be a main contributor to delivering software daily within a team. Follow established best engineering practices, while working with team to deliver business value driven features with high quality, and to continuously improve as a team and individual.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work with team to execute on new market initiatives, continuously improving the codebase and processes of existing systems
• Write solid, maintainable, and testable code, paired with useful documentation
• Build and maintain scalable ecommerce APIs (e.g. shopping cart management, order management, etc.) that will support The Pampered Chef internal, consultant and .com facing set of tools
• Maintain high standards of software quality within the team by establishing good practices and habits
• Develop and unit test applications in accordance with established standards
• Analyze and resolve technical and application problems
• Participate in peer-reviews of solution designs and related code
• Provide production support to business users
• Verify integration test specifications to ensure proper testing

Competencies for Success:

• Tech Savy
• Manages Complexity
• Plans and Aligns
• Optimizes Work

Measures of Success:

• Contribute to team improving velocity
• Contribute to team reducing the average ticket cycle time IN PROGRESS to RESOLVED
• Contribute to team delivering more story tickets
• Contribute to team reducing the amount of interruptions
• Work with team to deliver at least 90% story completion in a sprint

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor in computer science
• Building enterprise web applications leveraging object oriented/functional programming concepts
• Building applications using MEAN Stack, Angular 5 or a similar frontend framework
• Designing and building APIs using REST/JSON
• Database and caching experience, NoSQL and SQL (Elastic Search, MongoDB, Oracle)
• Building micro services a strong plus
• Responsive design using Bootstrap or other CSS frameworks a strong plus
• With distributed, cloud-based systems and application design in a SOA environment using AWS (EC2, Lambda, S3, etc.) and Containers (Docker, Kubernetes) a plus
• CI/CD experience using Jenkins, Atlassian stack a plus
• Google Analytics and metrics-based data analysis a plus.

About Pampered Chef:

Established in 1980 by Doris Christopher, Pampered Chef is a global marketing enterprise and a proud Berkshire Hathaway company since 2002. We develop a multi-purpose, high-quality and unique kitchen product line that includes time-saving kitchen tools, cookware, cutlery, stoneware, and pantry products serving millions of customers around the world. We support a large network of independent consultants with their direct sales efforts in addition to our corporate ecommerce business.We celebrate the power that mealtimes have to become something more: a way to transform relationships, share stories, create traditions, and build happier and richer lives. But, with today’s expectations, we know finding the mealtime win can be difficult. We’re here to help bridge that gap between the ideal mealtime and the realities of today. We do this through our distinctive, high-quality kitchen tools, parties that show you how to make delicious, timesaving recipes, and the opportunity to join our supportive international community of more than 50,000 consultants.Pampered Chef is committed to providing a workplace where coworkers can do their best work, whether at home or in our Addison office location. This role will have the opportunity to work collaboratively, both in our Addison office and virtually, with leaders, and cross-functional partners to measure, test, learn, and improve our customers’ mealtime journey.Pampered Chef complies with the federal OSHA mandate pertaining to Covid-19 vaccinations, testing, and face coverings. As such, Pampered Chef requires you to provide your vaccination status as a condition of employment. If you have questions about this, please discuss with the Pampered Chef HR Recruiter.