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) group enables an IT infrastructure and applications 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. The Software Engineer designs, develops, tests, deploys, monitors, and supports software solutions. This role ensures quality, security, privacy, reliability, availability, maintainability, performance, compatibility and integrations of solutions throughout. This person advances the team's technical foundation to deliver modern, simple, and secure solutions, and lift engineering skills within the squad. The role adopts DevOps practices to improve efficiency and confidence of software delivery. This role partners with Architects, Product Managers, and Agile Leaders to implement and refine technical architectural designs in alignment with enterprise standards, and to deliver software in an agile way with continuous improvement in mind. This position also supports and maintains software-as-a-service (SaaS), packaged software, and/or enterprise-wide applications. The role performs configuration, setup, and updates of the application, as well as manages access control. This person builds and produces reporting for business needs. The role recommends changes in application development, maintenance and system standards. *This position is a hybrid work model with 3 days per week onsite requirements in our Portland, OR office. HOW YOU’LL MAKE A DIFFERENCE Development: Design & Implementation: Responsible for design, development, configuration, testing, deployment, maintenance, monitoring, and support of a platform or application. Maintain thoughtful application design. Build subject matter expertise in the business area. Quality & Performance: Establish and manage quality standards. Leverage automation where possible. Ensure application performance, uptime, and scale. Practice in peer code reviews. Troubleshoot and fix bugs, security risks, bottlenecks, etc. Improve software development lifecycle. Create and maintain support playbooks. Observability: Monitor and observe health, availability, and performance of software in production to provide appropriate application support. Diagnose performance issues found in monitoring. Identify and implement new monitoring and proactive alerting mechanisms to inform the squad of issues before problems reach consumers/stakeholders. Technical Advancement: Employ DevOps practices to advance the technical foundation of solutions. Stay current on technology landscape. Ensures that solutions stay modern, simple, and secure. Innovation: Explore new technologies and ways of software delivery. Create proof of concepts to experiment new ideas. Inform recommendations based on learnings from POCs. Product Backlog & Roadmap Input: Contribute to and help refine the team's backlog. Apply knowledge to partner with teammates and the Product Owner to break down work into reasonable sizes that can be accomplished in a single iteration. Ensure stories have clear understood value and defined acceptance criteria. Help inform delivery estimates (story points), prioritization, identify dependencies, and influence the product roadmap. Generate stories for backlog to address performance, non-functional requirements, tech debt, modernization, simplification, etc. Agile Delivery: Participate in agile ceremonies, including daily stand-up, backlog refinement, planning, review/demo, and retrospectives. Help drive collaboration within the team through practices such as pair programming. Actively seek ways to drive continuous improvement within team. Architecture & Design: Seeks to understand application architecture for the squad's broader area of responsibility, including partner teams. Starts to partner with Solution Architects to understand, define, and adopt enterprise patterns and technology goals. Implement reference architectures with tool selection and implementation to deliver cost effective solutions that drive the right business value. Mentoring/Team Development: Mentor junior and intermediate individuals in the squad on technical delivery. Work to build technical skills in teammates through direction, example, and by creating opportunities for others to learn. YOU ARE Able to effectively conduct technical discussions directly with stakeholders, product owners, and scrum teams. Exceptional attention to detail Able to prioritize and complete multiple projects at once. A good communicator, both verbally and written. A team player able to work effectively with a large, cross functional, globally dispersed team. YOU HAVE Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field. 5 – 8 years’ professional experience Demonstrated ability for building cloud-based solutions using one or more of the following PAAS: Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Experience building and interacting with RESTful APIs and event-driven architecture. An understanding of modern, commonly used Object-Oriented Programming languages, (C#, Node.js, or Java), design patterns, and data structures. Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to troubleshoot technical issues independently. Effective communication and collaboration skills, both written and verbal. #LI-LC1 #Hybrid 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. Columbia Sportswear is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. The Know Your Rights poster is available here: https://www.eeoc.gov/poster The pay transparency policy is available here: https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/OFCCP/pdf/pay-transp_ English_formattedESQA508c.pdf Columbia Sportswear is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please notify your recruiter. At Columbia Sportswear Company, we’re proud to offer regular full-time employees a benefits package that includes a variety of services and products to help make your life and work more rewarding. Our benefit programs contribute to overall employee well-being by aligning those programs with the fundamental elements of well-being: physical, social/emotional, financial, career and community. Benefits that can protect your family’s financial future and help you save money through our 401k plan plus a generous company match. Columbia offers medical, dental, vision, life Insurance, disability, flexible spending accounts, health savings account, and an assortment of voluntary benefit offerings (accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and legal services). In addition, Columbia offers EAP which is free and confidential 24/7/365 counseling services. We have extensive wellness benefits, employee discounts and a generous time off program available. Founded in 1938, Columbia Sportswear Company is a global leader in designing, sourcing, marketing, and distributing outdoor and active lifestyle apparel, footwear, accessories, and equipment. Our four primary brands — Columbia®, Mountain Hardwear®, SOREL® and prAna® — complement each other to address the diverse needs of active consumers and their products have gained an international reputation for their innovation, quality and performance. Learn more about our family of brands here.