Engineer 1

General Description

Engineer 1 – Point of Sale (POS) Systems

About JCPenney:

JCPenney proudly serves customers at more than 650 stores across the United States and Puerto Rico, and at the Company’s flagship store, jcp.com. JCPenney is one of the nation’s largest retailers of apparel, home, jewelry, and beauty merchandise with a growing portfolio of private and national brands. Guided by the Golden Rule, JCPenney employs more than 60,000 associates worldwide and has served customers for over 119 years, playing a vital role in the communities it serves. For additional information, please visit jcp.com and follow JCPenney on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

Architects at JCPenney are responsible for driving Technology & Good Practices in Engineering in their respective teams. You work with a team of software engineers and will partner with other key groups, including Payments, Store Non-POS systems, Loyalty, Pricing, POS business, Scrum Masters, Enterprise Architecture, Store Operations, POS Support teams and others. Going beyond your role & contributing to make the organization & business better is a non-negotiable expectation.

• Experienced professional with good knowledge of Retail distributed POS systems.
• Experience in writing and hosting on Cloud platforms like Azure etc and serverless architecture.
• Excellent knowledge of databases like SQL Server 20xx, NoSQL etc.
• 2 to 3 years of experience in developing Web and Windows based apps using .NET 4.x/.Net Core framework.
• Strong knowledge on OOPS framework using C#
• Strong knowledge in MVC, Angular or REACT, JQuery frameworks
• Advantage would be given to candidates with exposure to Retail POS peripherals like Ingenico, VeriFone etc.
• Believer of Automation.
• Work closely with the Lead Engineers to conceive, create & design a cost-effective POS solutions
• Responsible for Scaling, Performance & Quality for the platform and the overall deliverables of the POS team.
• Drive technology & tool choices for your team & be responsible for them.
• Identify industry best practices for services based architecture that can be applied to JCP POS systems.
• Driving the adoption of these best practices around coding, design, quality, performance in your team. 
• Experiment with new & relevant technologies and tools, drive adoption within the team, 
• Advocate dev standards & frameworks in a test-driven development environment using tools like NUnit and/or XUNIT to maximize quality, efficiency & productivity
• Promote and evolve Agile Scrum methodology including lean requirements, delivery-focused rapid sprints, continuous integration (CI), continuous deployments (CD).
• Quick & Excellent Problem Solving skills for complex & large scale problems.
• Exceptional written, verbal, and presentation skills
• Strong professional and personal network of relevant technical talent.

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field required, Master’s degree preferred

Job Title: Engineer 1
Location: Bangalore, KA, India - Manyata Embassy Business Park, SEZ, G3 Wing A (Teak) Bloc, Floor 7-10
Job ID: 1108173

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