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JD Finish Line

Technical lead engineer

JD Finish Line, Indianapolis, Indiana, us, 46262


Come work for us!We are looking for dedicated employees to join our team to help our customers have the best experience possible every time they enter a JD Finish Line store.Our employees are key to our success.The JD North America Platform team powers the growth of JD and our Community Brands through building and delivering industry-leading connected customer and associate experiences across surfaces. We support and encourage everyone on our team to take an active role in driving innovation in technology behind the products and experiences we build and are looking for candidates with a clear bias-to-action that bring an experienced, solution-oriented perspective to our team.As a Technical Lead on the Platform team, you will be a leader in the solution planning, delivery and maintenance of tools and technologies that enable the whole IT organization. This position works alongside a talented group of Engineers, Scrum Masters, Product Managers, Designers, and Testers in a fast-paced environment to deliver capabilities (such as tooling for development, CI/CD, observability, and Generative AI) that enable product teams to deliver high-quality applications to our customers.The Technical Lead is a champion for researching, training, and implementing new technologies and approaches and sharing the results across the wider delivery team. Through various forums, the Technical Lead will play a key role in evangelizing best practices and standards to maintain our technology landscape to modern standards, especially as those standards change over time in an evolving IT industry. The Technical lead will work to encourage DevOps principles in a “you build it, you run it” mindset and deliver capabilities that enable application teams and reinforce this model.Key Responsibilities And Tasks

This individual will effectively exhibit JD Finish Line’s core values of Customer, People, Winning, Community, and Financial Responsibility in everything they do by performing the following main duties:Supporting our EPIC Platform with Cloud-native, microservice applications, Apache Kafka, Spring Boot, Java, Kotlin, MongoDB, Postgres, Docker, Kubernetes, and ReactImplementing CI/CD, observability, and other DevOps practices surrounding this platform leveraging technologies such as Jenkins, Spinnaker, Prometheus, Grafana and MimirHelping other engineers to learn and adopt these technologies and techniquesInnovating, driving, and defining high impact technology that creates solutions that positively impacts project delivery.Evangelizing and implementing engineering and testing best practices across the company (code reviews, SCM conventions, tools, etc)Required Computer And/or Technical Skills

Should have intermediate to advanced knowledge and abilities with open-source and industry standard, DevOps-enabling tools. Experience in a retail environment is preferred. These applications include:7+ years experience with Java, Kotlin, and/or PythonStrong experience with development in Spring frameworkStrong experience with both relational (SQL) and NoSQL databases such as MongoDBExperience with developing RESTful services/APIs using JSON and/or XMLExperience with messaging technologies such as MQ, JMS, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, experience with Apache Kafka is a plusExperience with building batch and streaming data pipelines is a plusThorough understanding of Domain-driven and event-driven microservice architecturesUnderstanding of containerized application development with Docker and experience with KubernetesExperience with cloud infrastructure and platforms such as AWS, Azure or GCP. GCP is preferredExperience with front end development (HTML, CSS, Javascript). Experience with client-side frameworks such as React, Vue, or Angular.Knowledge of build scripting tools such as Gradle, Ant, Maven, Gulp and Continuous Integration tools such as Jenkins, Spinnaker, and Artifactory.Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code principles and tooling such as Terraform or Pulumi.Experience with CDNs such as Akamai is a plus.Strong engineering mindset and attention to quality and detail – clean code, automated testing, peer review.Demonstrated success leading others engineers, providing technical direction and leadershipStrong collaboration and team-building skills. Ability to influence, mentor, and develop skills in other technologists.Strong ability to communicate and collaborate with other software architects and engineersStrong ability and willingness to learn and adopt new technologies to help the IT organization be more effectiveRequired Education And/or Experience

Bachelor’s degree (B.A.) in Computer Science or IT related field from a four-year college or university. At least 7-10 years’ experience, 7 years in J2EE or JAVA or the equivalent combination of education and experience.Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.Sit for more than 6 hours per shiftUse hands to finger, handle and feelReach with hands and armsTalk and/or hearWalk or move from one location to anotherOccasionally may need to climb, balance, stoop, kneel, or crouchLift and/or move up to 10 pounds regularly and up to 50 pounds occasionallyPunctuality and regular attendance consistent with the company’s policies is required for the position.Average work week is 40-50 hours, which can vary depending on business need.The work environment for this position is a moderately noisy office setting.EEOC Statement

The Finish Line, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to complying with all federal, state, and local EEO laws. The Finish Line, Inc. prohibits discrimination against employees and applicants for employment based on the individual's race or color, religion or creed, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, marital status, sex, pregnancy status, age, military status, disability, or any other protected characteristic or class protected by law. The Finish Line, Inc. provides reasonable accommodation for disabilities in accordance with applicable laws.

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