Web Engineer

Best Buy is a leading provider of technology products, services and solutions. The company offers expert service at an unbeatable price more than 1.5 billion times a year to the consumers, small business owners and educators who visit our stores, engage with Geek Squad agents or use BestBuy.com or the Best Buy app.

Description Best Buy is seeking innovative and technically curious technologists to join us as we make a huge impact in the eCommerce evolution! A career with BestBuy.com offers the opportunity to apply your talents and creative energy to deliver high performing solutions at one of the TOP 10 eCommerce sites in North America. With more than 1.5 billion visitors to our websites and stores each year, the work you do here will directly reach millions of BestBuy.com customers. There are multiple areas of specialization available such as Search, Distributed Services, Big Data platforms, Cloud, Infrastructure and more. Best Buy is the largest multi-channel consumer electronics retailer in the world and technology is at the heart of our organization. We work with the latest and greatest technologies including: OpenStack, NoSQL, Riak, Cassandra, Hadoop, Spring, Java, Groovy and REST based web services. Also, we have a strong focus on quality using test driven development, continuous integration and automated testing frameworks.

Role Summary: - Responsible for application development and maintenance for delivering business value online. - Follows the software development lifecycle phases from concept and design to testing and deployment. - Supports applications in production. Key Responsibilities: - Using current programming language and technologies to write basic code, fix defects and support production. - Writes system test scripts, performs testing and fixes software. - Completes basic documentation needed to support applications from development phase to maintenance phase. Creates deployment automation and run books for production support.

Education Level Required: - Bachelor's or advanced degree in IT, Computer Science, Engineering, Business or related field or equivalent work experience Experience Required: - 0-2 years of related experience; additional 2 years experience without BS/BA Technical Skills Required: - Able to write software applications in both web and service oriented environments using one of the following languages Java, Groovy, Javascript, or Ruby. - Knowledgeable of one or more of the following specifications HTML, XML, SQL, CSS and REST Web Services. Knowledge Required: Developing: - OO Programming Languages - Front-End Web Languages and Frameworks - Operating systems - Relational Databases