We inspire purpose-filled living that brings joy to the modern home. With a team of more than 8,000 associates spanning 130 store and distribution locations across the U.S. and Canada, we achieve together, drive results and innovate to inspire. Drawn together by a shared passion for our customers and a spirit of fun, we deliver high-quality home furnishings that are expertly designed, responsibly sourced and bring beauty 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.

The Lead Developer 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.

A day in the life as a Lead Developer…

• Participate with business partners in the definition of their requirements. 
• Develop detail design to align with the business requirements: function and process specifications. Assist with technical design, unit test plan (where needed), functional program design, and technical program design (where needed).
• Working with the team and business colleagues, define KPI’s, data integrity measurements and data integrity assurance process.
• 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.
• Project management: 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.
• Construction: Ensure programs are well-structured, well-documented and written to standards; conduct walkthroughs, review code and/or mappings, review unit tests.
• Testing: Collaborate with Quality Assurance in the preparation of test environments and execution of system test. Develop system test plan; develop and assist with execution of user acceptance test. Coordinate user service requests.
• Training: Participate in the definition and setup of training environments when needed.
• Installation: Participate in installation of software and execution of conversion.
• Post-installation support: Monitor system and coordinate user service requests. 
• Develop, measure, communicate and manage user agreed to service levels for data currency, accuracy, and availability.
• Collaborate with internal customers to determine the most efficient, cost-effective approach to meet their business requirements.
• Participate and/or lead technical design meetings and assist defining system architecture.
• Work with business stakeholders to understand requirements and communicate progress.
• Provide excellent customer service to users of Crate and Barrel system software applications.

What you’ll bring to the table… 

• Ability to develop a technical software solution to a business problem utilized by the various business areas that need data transformation, mapping and transferring.
• The ability to define the solution in verbal and documented states.
• 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.
• With some maturation in role, ability to coalesce work plans into a roadmap for supply chain applications. 
• Knowledge of Golang, .NET Core, etc.
• API Development, high speed in-memory cache handling.
• Implementing industry standard best development practices.
• Knowledge of third party tools/platforms like SQL, XML and Agile development tools.
• Knowledge of cloud infrastructure like AWS/GCP and streaming data.
• Ability to interface with legacy host systems like the I-Series.
• Listening and comprehension skills in working alongside business disciplines and other IT disciplines.
• Ability to work with business and prioritize requirements from business based on factors such as IT resources from different IT domains, overarching senior management direction, etc.

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

• College degree in an applicable field of study or comparable experience
• Eight or more years of software application development experience
• Demonstrated logical analysis and problem solving skills
• Ability to organize and prioritize workload to meet deadlines
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Excellent knowledge of the software application technologies utilized in software application team to which Developer is assigned.