Engineer 2 (Backend)
Company: Tailored Management
Location: Seattle
Posted on: January 26, 2026
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Job Description:
Job Title: Engineer 2 (Backend) Location: 1600 7th Avenue,
Seattle, WA 98101 Duration: 11-month contract (with possible
extension) Shift Timings: 8:00 AM 5:00 PM (PST) Start Date:
Targeting Feb 2026 Pay Rate: $59.85/hr to 66.90/hr on W2 Benefits:
Medical, Dental, Vision. Job Description: Engineer 2 is part of a
key team of Nordstrom Technology professionals that applies
scientific, mathematical, and social principles to design, build,
and maintain technology products, systems, and solutions. These
technology products and solutions provide amazing customer
experiences while meeting the needs of the business. The scope,
responsibility and accountability at this level supports
applications, services, infrastructure, and operational components,
with minimal supervision. As a Software Development Engineer 2 on
our team, you will work closely with Product, Program, and
Engineering to design, develop and implement the solution that
delights our restaurant customers. Our goal is to provide a robust
experience for our restaurant employees. You will work closely with
engineering teams and rollout out the new point-of-sale system,
labor management tool across all the Nordstrom restaurant concepts.
A day in the life Plan and develop robust, maintainable, reusable
code for managing functionality, configuration, deployment,
monitoring, performance, scalability, availability, security, and
alerting for software test, integration, and production
environments. Develop, maintain, and enhance automated test cases
and deployment procedures. Design, prototype, and build: you will
be hands on, show delivery mentality and lead by example.
Understand the Business/Stakeholder/Technical requirements and
assist in analyzing the existing solutions to address the needs.
Assist in creation of simple, modular, extensible functional design
for the product/solution in adherence to the requirements. Assess
gaps/ updates/ modifications between the customer/business
expectations and the existing product/solutions. Analyze defects
from past projects/solutions to avoid recurrence of similar
defects. Lead and enforce Nordstrom / industry engineering
standards, contribute towards their continuous improvement and be
active in the community of practice. You will be expected to
display an operational mindset, support, and ensure reliability of
the solution and systems under your purview. Think of the customer
(other engineering teams and business users) and how they will use
the features you develop, have a customer focused mentality. Think
deeply about the underlying system that is running your code, test
driven development that prioritizes quality. You own this if you
have Bachelors or masters degree in an engineering discipline,
preferably computer science, or equivalent 4 years professional
experience in delivering quality software, ideally across the full
stack Proficient in developing reliable and scalable solutions
Excellent proficiency in Object-Oriented language, such as Java
Proven track record in Java and Java Spring boot framework
Experience with RESTful architecture and micro-services Experience
with cloud-based services will be a plus (AWS/GCP) Experience with
modern infrastructure tools and pipelines (Github CI/CD, Terraform)
Familiarity with ops tools, logging, and metrics (New Relic,
Splunk) Experience with messaging technologies and patterns
(Kafka/SQS) Test automation experience at all levels (Unit,
Integration, Regression, Load) Good communication skills (verbal
and written) TMN
Keywords: Tailored Management, Kirkland , Engineer 2 (Backend), IT / Software / Systems , Seattle, Washington
