Software Engineer III

Sears Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ: SHLD) is a leading integrated retailer focused on seamlessly connecting the digital and physical shopping experiences to serve our members - wherever, whenever and however they want to shop. Sears Holdings is home to Shop Your Way®, a social shopping platform offering members rewards for shopping at Sears and Kmart as well as with other retail partners across categories important to them. The Company operates through its subsidiaries, including Sears, Roebuck

* Hands-on engineering experience with ability to providing technical leadership in all stages of development (analysis, design and development). * Ability to lead and drive modern technology tools, standards and patterns. Pre-existing open-source or community track record is preferred (github, stackoverflow, Java/Clojure/Scala user group participation etc.). * Eye for details and correctness in deliverables with focus towards documentation, testability and reliability. * High level of comfort working on server side technologies as well as browser based technologies.

* Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science or related field * At least 6-8 years of hands on programming experience on modern JVM platform * Understanding and experience with Object Oriented and Functional programming paradigm * Expert level understanding on any three of the following programming language: * Java * Clojure * Scala * Haskell * Erlang * Python * Javascript (or Coffeescript/Clojurescript/Purescript) * Hands on experience on browser based technologies including: * HTML5 * CSS3 * Javascript * SPDY * Websocket * Expert level working experience on at least one of the following: * Java/JavaEE * node.js * Web infrastructure technologies (Web Service, ReST, OAuth) * Deep understanding and experience on design and implementation principles for large scale high performance transactional web platform (e-commerce, trading, auction, sports, social network)