Senior Engineer, Loyalty Technology

Nordstrom

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Work type
On-site
Location
Seattle, WA
Salary
$142,000–$220,500 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
9 days ago
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Confirmed live today

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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role $181k
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This role pays more than 73% of similar roles. Most pay $139,425–$186,925 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $181k versus about $163k for comparable roles.

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About Nordstrom

Nordstrom is a leading American luxury department store chain offering a wide selection of clothing, shoes, accessories, and beauty products through its stores, Nordstrom Rack outlets, and online. Industry: Luxury Department Store Retail

Nordstrom currently has 40 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $142,000–$220,500 across 23 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Engineer, Loyalty Technology

As a Senior Engineer - Loyalty Technology, you will join the Loyalty Technology team to build and maintain the platform powering earning, tracking, and redemption across all customer channels. You will design and deliver scalable solutions for complex business problems, manage technical strategy, and mentor other engineers while ensuring high-quality code through rigorous reviews. Your daily work involves developing high-performing services, APIs, and reusable components, as well as managing event-driven, Kafka-based pipelines and integrating with third-party loyalty platforms. The role requires expertise in Java, Spring Boot, RESTful services, and cloud infrastructure like AWS or GCP. You will also utilize AI tools for prototyping and debugging while ensuring security and performance standards. This position solves critical technical challenges regarding real-time rewards lookup and tiered membership systems to ensure a seamless experience for both customers and store associates.

What does a Engineer earn in Washington?

Median $172500 from 34 postings across 9 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Design and lead technical strategies for scalable, secure, and reliable loyalty platform services.
  • Translate complex business requirements into modular, extensible designs across multiple engineering workstreams.
  • Build and maintain high-performing APIs and components for earning, tiering, and rewards lookup.
  • Manage Kafka-based pipelines and integrate third-party loyalty platforms to improve system functionality.
  • Improve infrastructure reliability through automated testing, CI/CD practices, and performance monitoring.
  • Integrate AI tools into the development lifecycle while ensuring code quality and security.
  • Participate in 24x7 on-call rotations to resolve complex production issues for the loyalty program.
  • Mentor engineers and lead design reviews to ensure high standards of maintainability and operational readiness.

What we're looking for

  • 6+ years of professional software engineering experience in a relevant practice area.
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Strong knowledge of Java and the Java Spring Boot framework.
  • Experience with RESTful services, event-driven applications, and Kafka or similar platforms.
  • Experience with AWS or GCP services and cloud-native application development.
  • Hands-on experience using AI tools in engineering work with the judgment to verify their output.
  • Strong communication skills to convey technical information to nontechnical audiences.
  • Experience with Python, React, JavaScript, C#, Kubernetes, Docker, or CI/CD (preferred).

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