Sr. Software Engineer: Inventory Positioning (Hybrid - Seattle, WA)

Job Description About the team and the role The Inventory Positioning team owns the platform that decides where inventory should go and when — across Nordstrom’s entire fulfillment network of DCs, FCs, and stores. Today, programs like Pack & Hold, Reserve Stock, Returns, and NYC Restocking each run on separate logic with no shared foundation. Our team is building the common platform that unifies them. At the core is the Inventory Positioning Engine (IPE) — the intelligence layer of the Dynamic Inventory Positioning initiative. IPE owns the Sense and Decide functions of the platform: ingesting signals from across the Nordstrom network and making unit-level placement decisions that optimize for demand, cost-to-serve, and sell-through probability. IPE capabilities span delayed allocation, holdback quantity determination, node selection logic, multi-grain forecasting, inventory awareness, and capacity-aware routing. As an Engineer Senior 1 on this team, you will design and build core IPE capabilities from the ground up, own solution-level designs spanning multiple engineers’ work, and champion engineering quality across the team. You will make technical tradeoffs with a 120-day design horizon, mentor more junior engineers, and be directly engaged in incident resolution of complex problems. A day in the life…. Design and build real-time positioning decision pipelines that cons [... source excerpt omitted ...] o streamline delivery of positioning services and drive measurable outcomes Work with business, infrastructure and security teams on delivering any enhancements and bug fixes for production systems Make technical tradeoffs between short-term delivery needs and long-term business needs in design, component choice, and database selection — and articulate those tradeoffs clearly to the team Describe detailed system interactions with direct dependencies; design deployment processes that minimize downtime and include alerting that detects failures before they impact customers Surface potential design or delivery conflicts in the current product cycle and make recommendations on the [... source excerpt omitted ...] indset of questioning and defending standards when applicable Participate in design and code review to ensure quality and testability of feature code Participate in 24X7 on-call responsibilities Mentor and support them across a wide spectrum of technical activities Participate in interviews for individual contributor roles, providing clear and specific feedback that contributes to a hiring decision You own this if you have… 6+ years of professional experience in practice area Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS, Engineering or equivalent practical experience Experience analyzing, designing, coding, testing, installing and maintaining complex software programs Knowledge of Jav