Senior Engineer 2 - Supply Chain Technology

Nordstrom Nordstrom · Retail · Seattle, WA

Senior Engineer 2 role focused on designing and architecting supply chain technology solutions, including forecasting, fulfillment optimization, and transportation systems. The role involves collaborating with various teams, driving technical decision-making, and ensuring the quality and scalability of solutions. While AI/ML tools are mentioned as a way to accelerate development and drive operational intelligence, the core focus is on building and maintaining supply chain systems.

What you'd actually do

  1. Demonstrate competence of engineering concepts and theories, combining them with supply chain domain understanding to design, document and implement clean, robust, and scalable solutions to complex business problems.
  2. Collaborate with other engineering teams, business stakeholders, as well as program and product managers to make technical decisions and influence priorities and tradeoffs that enable solutions to achieve short and long-term supply chain objectives.
  3. Champion new techniques (like AI/ML tools and automation) to accelerate development and drive operational intelligence across the organization.
  4. Take ownership of systems or designs that span multiple people’s work—including forecasting models, fulfillment routing, or transportation optimization—breaking work into smaller tasks for more junior engineers to support.
  5. Maintain a high bar for code quality, testing and automation while finding opportunities to continuously improve them.

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years of experience in software engineering or technology roles.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
  • Demonstrated ability to design and deliver complex, distributed systems in a production environment.
  • Hands-on experience architecting event-driven systems and Tier 1 services built for high availability and throughput at scale.
  • Strong technical judgment with experience guiding architecture across scalable, cloud-native services.
  • Experience with supply chain systems such as Warehouse Management Systems (WMS), Transportation Management Systems (TMS), Order Management Systems (OMS), Last Mile Delivery Systems (LMDS), or Supply Chain Planning platform.
  • Proven ability to collaborate across Product, Operations, and Data Science stakeholders to translate strategy into executable technical solutions.
  • A track record of driving code quality, testing, and engineering best practices across a team.
  • Experience working with third-party platforms, vendors, or large technology ecosystems.

Nice to have

  • 2+ years of experience in retail, supply chain, logistics, fulfillment, or a related domain (preferred).
  • Familiarity with AI/ML or advanced analytics in production environments (preferred).

What the JD emphasized

  • supply chain operations
  • supply chain planning
  • fulfillment optimization
  • transportation technology
  • supply chain planning
  • warehouse operations
  • supply chain touchpoints
  • retail, supply chain, logistics, fulfillment
  • supply chain systems
  • supply chain objectives