Principal Full Stack Engineer (Marketing Technologies)

OUTGROWN YOUR OWN BACKYARD? COME PLAY IN OURS.

At Columbia, we're as passionate about the outdoors as you are. And while our gear is available worldwide, we're proud to be based in the Pacific Northwest, where natural wonders are our playground.

Every product we make and every task we undertake is inspired by the famous words of our founder Gert Boyle: "It's perfect. Now make it better." As pioneers of relentless improvement, we are constantly evolving.

We believe the outdoors is ours to protect and strive to keep our planet healthy. We believe in empowering people to experience the outdoors to the fullest.

And we believe in you.

ABOUT THE POSITION

Although we're an apparel and footwear focused company, technology is central to everything we do. Columbia Sportswear's Digital Technology (CDT) teams enable an IT infrastructure across four global brands, a global supply chain, and 500+ geographically dispersed stores. These teams support in-store, mobile, and data platforms to enhance customer interface and service in an ever-evolving industry.

HOW YOU'LL MAKE A DIFFERENCE

• Analyze, design, build and implement service-based solutions using object-oriented frameworks and modern cloud PAAS approaches.
• Utilize, develop and enhance a suite of testing patterns and practices.
• Operate as part of an Agile team executing against a backlog that covers a broad swath of tasks across many different domains of the enterprise.
• Build, test and deliver production-ready services and products (which consume said services).
• Interact with and mentor other members of the team.
• Actively participate in daily standups, backlog refinement, demos, sprint planning and retrospectives.
• Work with team leads, solutions architects and managers to help improve existing "paved road" patterns and practices.
• Proactively ask questions, identify issues, offer alternative approaches and solutions and follow up to make sure things don't become blockers.

YOU ARE

• Able to learn and adapt quickly to new programming languages, frameworks, cloud technologies and development patterns and practices.
• Good at following instructions and working within a team environment.
• Self-driven and motivated to learn, ask good questions, provide constructive feedback and achieve milestones, objectives and goals.
• A multitasker that can manage multiple responsibilities at once and can quickly shift gears as priorities change and evolve.

YOU HAVE

• 5+ years of professional development experience working within enterprise-like environments and on Agile teams.
• Experience building and interacting with RESTful APIs.
• Comfort and familiarity working on and within Agile software development patterns and practices.
• Experience building cloud-based solutions using one or more of the following PAAS: Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, etc.
• An understanding of modern, commonly used Object-Oriented Programming languages (e.g., C#, Node.js, Java, etc.), design patterns and data structures.
• Knowledge and experience with common testing frameworks (e.g., Microsoft Testing, NUnit, JUnit, etc.).

Columbia Sportswear Company and our portfolio of brands, including Columbia, SOREL, Mountain Hardwear and prAna, know a thing or two about adventures. After all, we've been on one since 1938, working to perfect the art of enjoying the outdoors. Behind everything we make is an employee who's found that the greatest adventure starts with joining a company that strives to do the right thing.

This job description is not meant to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities, but constitutes a general definition of the position's scope and function in the company.

At Columbia Sportswear Company (CSC), we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. CSC believes that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.