About Bazaarvoice
At Bazaarvoice, we create smart shopping experiences. Through our expansive global network, product-passionate community & enterprise technology, we connect thousands of brands and retailers with billions of consumers. Our solutions enable brands to connect with consumers and collect valuable user-generated content, at an unprecedented scale. This content achieves global reach by leveraging our extensive and ever-expanding retail, social & search syndication network. And we make it easy for brands & retailers to gain valuable business insights from real-time consumer feedback with intuitive tools and dashboards. The result is smarter shopping: loyal customers, increased sales, and improved products.
The problem we are trying to solve : Brands and retailers struggle to make real connections with consumers. It's a challenge to deliver trustworthy and inspiring content in the moments that matter most during the discovery and purchase cycle. The result? Time and money spent on content that doesn't attract new consumers, convert them, or earn their long-term loyalty.
Our brand promise : closing the gap between brands and consumers.
Founded in 2005, Bazaarvoice is headquartered in Austin, Texas with offices in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia.
Software Engineer - Systems Integration Team
The Software Engineer will be working within a highly experienced internal Services tools team to scope and develop technical solutions used by teams across Bazaarvoice. The Software Engineer will work on Bazaarvoice's Systems Integration Team to build solutions designed by the team.
This includes reviewing stakeholder needs, triaging and responding to bug reports and feature requests, reviewing architecture and design documents, and implementing solutions utilizing the latest web technologies (e.g. Google Cloud Platform, AWS, React, Node, and Mongo) as well as supporting legacy apps written in various languages (e.g. Python, PHP, and SQL).
The Software Engineer will be involved either directly or indirectly in requirements gathering, design, implementation, testing, and deployment of web applications. This position requires the candidate to have strong time management skills as well as excellent verbal and written communications skills.
Responsibilities:
Create and define functional and application architecture designs as per business requirements.
Coordinate with stakeholders to verify the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs.
Develop new user-facing interfaces and features.
Build reusable code and libraries for future use.
Integrate front-end and back-end aspects of the web application.
Develop application dashboards utilizing existing or new frameworks.
Participate in continuous learning (both formal and informally)
Required Skills:
Full stack web development experience.
Familiarity with RESTful web services.
2+ years' experience with Node and React.
Proficiency with NoSQL databases like MongoDB.
Experience with relational databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, or similar.
Solid understanding of JavaScript and object-oriented fundamentals such as prototype inheritance and composition.
Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates.
Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around such issues.
Proficient understanding of distributed versioning systems like Git or Mercurial.
Good understanding of browser rendering behaviour and performance.
Excellent written and spoken English communication.
What will make you stand out:
Experience working with Google Cloud Platform, AWS, Azure, or other major cloud providers.
Experience building cloud-first applications.
Experience with a PaaS like Kubernetes, or similar.
Deep understanding of multiple programming languages.