Senior Software Engineer - Merchandising in London

At DICK'S Sporting Goods, we take a people‑centric approach to everything we do. Our athletes, how we refer to customers, and our teammates, how we refer to our employees, are at the center of every decision we make so that we can provide transformational experiences online, in store, and in sport.

Job Purpose: Designs and builds best‑in‑class solutions. Perform business/software analysis. May coordinate initiatives within a product team. Supports initiatives that ensure enterprise systems remain best‑in‑class. Learning to lead teams and bodies of work. Acts as a product‑team problem solver and domain SME to design, test, and deliver best‑in‑class solutions.

Team: The Merchandising Software Engineering team is responsible for building next‑generation tools that support our merchandising organization. Your role will be central to the “Inventory 360” initiative, where you will actively participate in the discovery, design, build, deployment, and ongoing support of both custom software and packaged/SaaS solutions.

Tech Stack:

• Angular frontend
• .NET Core backend APIs
• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Azure SQL Server
• RabbitMQ for async processing
• MassTransit (messaging abstraction)
• AgGrid (licensed UI grid)

Responsibilities:

• Software Development: Drive development of existing software and contribute to new software by analyzing and identifying areas for modification and improvement. Develop software that is fast, secure and reliable to meet defined requirements.
• Software Maintenance: Monitor, identify, and correct more complex software defects to maintain fully functioning software, leveraging the support and skill of more junior teammates.
• Design and Conceptualization: Produce multiple concepts and prototypes to design digital products/services.
• Technical Developments Recommendation: Research and suggest ways to optimize solutions to better meet user and/or business, performance, quality needs.
• Software Roadmap: Drive maintenance road map to facilitate software development and ensure the development work is prioritized in line with business requirements.
• Faults Diagnosis and Correction: Find root cause and resolution to limit and address issues promptly.
• Work Scheduling and Allocation: Assign short‑term work schedules to a team based on storyboarding/backlog in order to achieve expectations while following established timelines.
• Ongoing Learning and Development: Develop own and more junior team member capabilities by participating in assessment and development planning activities, formal and informal training and coaching; maintain an understanding of relevant technology, regulation, and industry best practices through ongoing education.
• Program/Portfolio Management Support: Contribute to work within an established program management plan to achieve specific goals.
• Technical Persistence Layer/Legacy Database Design/Development: Guide and deliver the design distribution of basic database resources and provide physical modeling and design services to tune database solutions for optimum performance.
• Functional/Technical Requirements: Support the collection of functional requirements using document analysis and workflow analysis to express the requirements in terms of target user roles and goals.

Behavioral Competencies:

• Tech Savvy: Anticipates and adopts innovations in business‑building digital and technology applications; uses digital/social media to benefit the team and add value to the work being done.
• Decision Quality: Makes good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward; integrates various inputs, criteria, and trade‑offs.
• Action Oriented: Takes on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm.
• Collaborates: Builds partnerships and works collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.
• Instills Trust: Gains the confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity, and authenticity; follows through on agreements and commitments.
• Customer Focus: Builds strong customer relationships and delivers customer‑centric solutions; studies customer feedback and emerging needs.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent preferred
• 6–10 years of experience
• 7–12 months experience of generalist supervision of a junior colleague

Targeted Pay Range: $83,000.00 – $138,200.00. This is part of a competitive total rewards package that could include other components such as incentive, equity and benefits. Individual pay is determined by a number of factors including experience, location, internal pay equity, and other relevant business considerations.