Lead Developer, Transportation

Crate and Barrel Company Intro:

We inspire purpose-filled living that brings beauty and quality to the modern home. Together, we achieve. Associates across our business drive results, innovate, and inspire. Drawn together by our shared values and passion for our customers and our brands, we deliver home furnishings that are expertly designed, responsibly sourced, and bring timeless style and function to people’s homes. From the day we opened our first store in Chicago in 1962 to the digital innovations that engage millions of customers today, our iconic brand is over 60 years in the making—and our story is still unfolding.

We’re here for it. We think you should be too. We’re looking for a driven professional with an inclusive mindset to join our team as a Lead Developer, Transportation.

The Lead Developer, Transportation is responsible for guiding a team of developers to understand product requirements, developing the architecture and specifications for systems to support them. The Lead Developer will provide technical leadership to teammates through coaching and mentorship. This role will represent and guide our development team setting the pace, path, and standard for all programming activities. The lead developer also works with managers and peers to improve technical processes. This individual should be able to work with both custom and package software.

This position is fully remote.

A day in the life as a Lead Developer...

• Develop detailed design to align with the business requirements: function and process specifications. Assist with technical design, unit test plan, functional program design, and technical program design
• Develop a function point analysis estimate of work effort required to complete the business requirements. If this requires IT work outside your IT domain, work with that domain’s estimates in order that the overall estimate encompasses the complete solution
• Develop a work plan working with manager and business input and priorities. Determine staff assignments
• Create and maintain the IT work plan using department approved project management tools; supervise progress; report progress against work plan; log, track and manage the resolution of project issues; frequently review progress with IT management
• Ensure programs are well-structured, well-documented and written to standards; conduct walkthroughs, review code and/or mappings, review unit tests
• Collaborate with Quality Assurance in the preparation of test environments and execution of system tests. Develop system test plan; develop and assist with execution of user acceptance test. Coordinate user service requests
• Participate in installation of software and execution of conversion
• Develop, measure, communicate and manage user agreed to service levels for data currency, accuracy, and availability
• Participate and/or lead technical design meetings and assist defining system architecture
  
  

What You’ll Bring To The Table…

• Ability to develop a technical software solution to a business problem utilized by the various business areas and specifically transportation systems that need data transformation, mapping and transferring
• Ability to create estimates for software development based on technical solutions that address business requirements
• Ability to develop a work plan, taking into account the defined efforts by all contributing IT-impacted domains
• Knowledge of Golang, .NET Core, etc.
• API Development, high speed in-memory cache handling
• Ability to build and lead integration services to Blue Yonder TMS package
• Ability to integrate with shipment visibility packages like Fourkites/Project 44 etc.
• Experience integrating with Truck Load, Less than Truck Load and Intermodal
• Knowledge of third party tools/platforms like SQL, XML and Agile development tools
• Knowledge of cloud infrastructure (GCP) and Kafka streaming data
• Ability to interface with legacy host systems like the I-Series
  
  

We’d love to hear from you if you have…

• College degree in an applicable field of study or comparable experience
• 8+ years of software application development experience specifically in Retail supply chain portfolio and TMS implementation
• Demonstrated logical analysis and problem solving skills
• Excellent knowledge of the software application technologies utilized in the software application team to which the lead developer is assigned
  
  

Minimum Starting Rate: $126,960.00 Annually

Up to: $158,700.00 Annually

Pay ranges will be adjusted upward as needed to comply with applicable state and local law. In addition to your salary, based on your role, associates may be eligible for other compensation including bonuses, sales incentives, and long term incentives.

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