We inspire purpose-filled living that brings beauty and quality to the modern home. Together, we achieve. Associates across our business drive results, innovate, and inspire. Drawn together by our shared values and passion for our customers and our brands, we deliver home furnishings that are expertly designed, responsibly sourced, and bring timeless style 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 (Fullstack/Web) provides technical leadership and hands-on development expertise, 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. 

This position is fully remote.

A day in the life as a Lead Developer...

• Design and develop business functionality in multi-tier web solutions while improving code quality and infrastructure
• Build scalable, unit testable solutions for our website applications and do code reviews
• Champion culture of good security, coding standards, architecture patterns, resiliency, and documentation practices
• Work across all phases of the software development lifecycle (planning, design, implementation, deployment, operations and support)
• Leader on a cross-disciplinary Agile team to understand requirements, do product backlog grooming, sprint planning, execution, and retrospective
• Contribute to frontend development using modern JavaScript frameworks (e.g., React, Angular, Vue) where needed
• Communicate effectively and efficiently with all associates and business contacts and promote a strong sense of teamwork
• See big picture for interconnected systems, building resiliency, and when your solutions move to production how they will be operationalized/monitored
• Optimize website speed / performance and enhance SEO
• Collaborate with internal customers to determine the most efficient, cost-effective approach to meet their business requirements. 
• Work on an Agile team to estimate, develop, test, deploy, and maintain, while collaborating with team members on test and personalization roadmap and backlog, sprint planning, execution, review, and retrospective

What you’ll bring to the table… 

• Proficiency in C#, ASP.NET (MVC and WebForms), HTML, Javascript, React, and Visual Studio / Code.
• Database experience - SQLServer, NoSQL experience a plus
• Proficient in Javascript framework experience (e.g. ReactJS, AngularJS, Node.js)
• Experienced with JIRA and BitBucket/Git for source control
• Strong in Domain-Driven Design, Dependency Injection, caching strategies
• Proficient in using built-in browser tools like Chrome Developer Tools
• Practical understanding of data structures, algorithms, and design patterns in a web environment
• Unit Test frameworks like MSTest, NUnit and Jasmine and mocking frameworks like Moq
• Plan and lead multiple projects independently via good project management practices and artifacts/documentation
• Prototype solutions and new tools/technologies; conduit with Architecture and DevOps for arch design and operations
• Fantastic analytical skills to debug complex problems and curiosity/passion for technology
• Great understanding of Web Performance measuring and how to optimize (APM)
• Great collaborator and communicator with teammates and business partners
• Communicate technical direction and ideas across the organization

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

• 8+ years of .NET MVC web development with a preferred focus on retail eCommerce solutions
• 5+ years with relational databases
• 3+ years leading development team(s) and working under Agile scrum framework
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or comparable work experience; Master’s degree preferred
• Strong written and verbal communication skills 

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Minimum Starting Rate: $126,960.00 Annually

Up to: $158,700.00 Annually

Pay ranges will be adjusted upward as needed to comply with applicable state and local law. In addition to your salary, based on your role, associates may be eligible for other compensation including bonuses, sales incentives, and long term incentives.