Senior Full Stack Software Engineer
AI summary of the role
Senior Full Stack Engineer on the Catalogs, Hierarchy & Org MDM team within Nordstrom's PIM organization.
No longer in the current catalog. Last included 2026-09-09. Check the employer’s posting for availability.
What you’ll do
- Design, build, and operate Java microservices for catalog management, hierarchical classification, and organizational master data, integrating with Kafka event streaming and Temporal workflow orchestration.
- Create React/TypeScript internal tools that make complex data operations intuitive for merchants, buyers, and data stewards.
- Build validation, canonicalization, and entity resolution capabilities to ensure data consistency across wholesale, marketplace, and direct-to-consumer channels.
- Participate in on-call rotations, build observability (New Relic, structured logging, dashboards), and drive operational excellence through runbooks and incident response.
What you’ll bring
- 7+ years professional software engineering experience with significant delivery of both backend services and frontend applications.
- Strong backend fundamentals: designing and building microservices in Java or Kotlin, working with PostgreSQL, and integrating with event-driven architectures (Kafka).
- Modern frontend skills: production React applications with TypeScript, with attention to usability and accessibility.
- Infrastructure fluency with Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines.
Technologies
Java · Spring Boot · React · TypeScript · Kafka · Temporal.io · PostgreSQL · DynamoDB · Redis · AWS · Terraform · New Relic
About Nordstrom
US premium department store and off-price Nordstrom Rack operator serving ~50k employees across full-line flagship stores and 350+ Rack locations nationwide.
Acquired · 5000+ people
Source and classification
Internal deployment & tooling · Evidence for this classification:
Job Description Nordstrom's Product Information Management organization is the backbone of how millions of products are represented, organized, and discovered across every Nordstrom channel — from Nordstrom.com, NordstromRack.com and the Nordstrom apps to in-store systems and marketplace partner integrations. Within PIM, the Catalogs, Hierarchy & Org MDM team owns the foundational data structures that make this possible: the product catalogs customers browse, the merchandising hierarchies that power navigation and reporting, and the Organization Master Data Management (MDM) platform that governs how store and organizational entities are maintained across the enterprise. This is a rare opportunity to work at the intersection of large-scale data architecture and customer-facing impact. Every product page a customer sees, every filter they apply, and every category they navigate depends
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Job Description Nordstrom's Product Information Management organization is the backbone of how millions of products are represented, organized, and discovered across every Nordstrom channel — from Nordstrom.com, NordstromRack.com and the Nordstrom apps to in-store systems and marketplace partner integrations. Within PIM, the Catalogs, Hierarchy & Org MDM team owns the foundational data structures that make this possible: the product catalogs customers browse, the merchandising hierarchies that power navigation and reporting, and the Organization Master Data Management (MDM) platform that governs how store and organizational entities are maintained across the enterprise. This is a rare opportunity to work at the intersection of large-scale data architecture and customer-facing impact. Every product page a customer sees, every filter they apply, and every category they navigate depends on the systems you will build and evolve. This role is offered as hybrid in Seattle, WA. Candidates must be available to work in office at the Nordstrom corporate headquarters a minimum of 4 days/week to be considered for this position. A day in the life... As a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer, you will design, build, and operate services and user interfaces that are central to Nordstrom's product data ecosystem. You will work across the entire stack — from React-based internal tools used [... source excerpt omitted ...] gn delightful internal tools. Merchants, buyers, and data stewards rely on the UIs your team builds to manage catalogs, assign hierarchy nodes, and govern organizational entities. You'll create React-based applications that make complex data operations intuitive and efficient. Drive data quality at scale. You'll build validation, canonicalization, and entity resolution capabilities that ensure data consistency across Nordstrom's product ecosystem — spanning wholesale, marketplace, and direct-to-consumer channels. Own what you ship. You'll participate in on-call rotations, build observability into every service (New Relic, structured logging, custom dashboards), and drive oper [... source excerpt omitted ...] reSQL), and integrating with event-driven architectures (Kafka). Experience with workflow orchestration tools like Temporal is a strong plus. Modern frontend skills. You've built production React applications with TypeScript. You care about usability, accessibility, and creating tools that people enjoy. Infrastructure fluency. You're comfortable working with containerized deployments (Docker, Kubernetes), defining infrastructure as code with Terraform, and configuring CI/CD pipelines. You don't need to be a platform engineer, but you can provision what your services need and troubleshoot deployment issues without waiting on someone else. Distributed systems thinking. You underst
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