Staff Software Engineer

Staff Software Engineer (Merchandising)

6-12 Month CTH

Can sit at either one location 4 days onsite per week Monday-Thursday at

100 North Point, San Francisco, CA 94133

Rocklin office: 3750 Atherton Rd, Rocklin, CA 95765

San Jose office: 1980 Zanker Rd, San Jose, CA 95112

Relocation Candidates are welcome

No Sponsorship Available

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JOB DESCRIPTION

Someone who has worked extensively on Oracle RMS ( on pre, cloud ) and merchandising/inventory management systems.

Project Overview

We are seeking a highly technical, strategic, and domain-expert Lead / Staff Software Engineer to spearhead the engineering, integration, and automation of our core enterprise merchandising platforms. In this role, you will take full ownership of our master data and core merchandising ecosystem, Stibo STEP PIM (Product Information Management), Oracle Retail Suite (RMS / RMFCS) and Inventory Planning and Forecasting. Oracle Retail Merchandising System (RMS) and Product Information Management (PIM) role bridges merchandising and data governance. You will design, configure, and maintain integrated platforms to manage enterprise product lifecycles, ensuring seamless data flow across supply chain, inventory, and point-of-sale systems. This is a strictly hands-on role. You will write code, build integrations, configure platforms, and actively architect the system. Beyond traditional software engineering, this position requires demonstrated experience in Agentic AI development. You will leverage various Large Language Models (LLMs) and autonomous AI frameworks to build intelligent agents that automate code development, data enrichment, flag inventory anomalies, and streamline global supply chain workflows.

Analyzes, designs, programs, debugs, and modifies software enhancements and/or new products used in local, networked or Internet-related computer programs. Using current programming language and technologies, writes code, completes programming, and performs testing and debugging of applications. Completes documentation and procedures for installation and maintenance.

Requirements and Design:

·         Authors detailed technical designs and architecture for complex projects within their domain(s) and adjacent domains

·         Accountable for overall quality, scalability, extensibility, and delivery of technical designs & features of their domain(s)

·         Accountable for the solid, reusable, modular design and code, as well as mentoring these practices to other engineers within their domain(s)

·         Reviews and approves technical designs authored by teams within their domain(s) and adjacent domains

Scope:

·         Provides technical direction and collaboration across multiple teams within a delivery function or enterprise sub-domain, powered by significant knowledge and insight

·         Contributes to the engineering practice within their domain/delivery organization

·         Thoroughly understands and describes the architecture(s) across multiple related domains

·         Ensures their delivery organization’s work is consistent with the architecture

Coding & Testing:

·         Excels in the languages used within their domain

·         Writes high quality code with excellent modularity, reusability, test coverage

·         Is recognized as an expert by their team(s)

·         Quickly comes up with best solutions to deliver code that solves complex problems within a single domain

·         Participates in the analysis and decision of new programming languages or testing frameworks for new initiatives (e.g. New Mobile App)

·         Excels in the languages used across domains

·         Writes exemplary quality code with excellent test coverage

·         Is recognized as an expert within overall the technology organization

·         Delivers code that solves complex cross-domain problems in very short time frames

·         Research, Propose, Analyze and Decide on new programming languages or testing frameworks for new initiatives

·         Reviews code to ensure it is consistent with the target architecture

·         Creates or improves upon code review practices and tools

Duties/Day to Day Overview

·         System Implementation & Integration: Design and implement Oracle Retail Merchandising Cloud Services (ORMCS) alongside enterprise PIM platforms (like Stibo Systems STEP). Actively write code, configure, and architect Stibo STEP (Item, Location, Vendor Portal) alongside Oracle Retail Merchandising Systems (RMS/RMFCS). Define enterprise-wide data models and product taxonomy. Engineer custom Stibo JavaScript business rules, state transitions, and approval workflows.

·         Data Governance & Modeling: Establish a single source of truth by aggregating, standardizing, and synchronizing product data (attributes, hierarchies, taxonomy).

·         Workflow Automation: Configure automated business rules and change-management workflows to review, approve, and enrich item data before it hits customer touchpoints.

·         Data Synchronization: Map and build data integration pipelines between RMS, PIM, ERP, and e-commerce systems to enable omnichannel journeys.

·         Lifecycle Management: Manage the end-to-end product lifecycle from vendor onboarding and purchase orders to pricing, inventory allocation, and fulfillment.

·         Agentic AI Development: Use production-grade Agentic AI frameworks to automate complex retail tasks.

Top Requirements

(Must haves)

·         Retail Domain Expertise: 10+ years of core retail industry experience with a deep understanding of merchandise hierarchies, foundational inventory management, pricing systems, and supply chain operations.

·         Technical Stack Mastery: 8+ years of hands-on software development experience utilizing JavaScript, XML, XSD, JSON, Linux environments, and RESTful/SOAP Web Services.

·         Stibo STEP Experience: 8+ years of direct configuration and architecture experience within Stibo STEP PIM (workflows, portal development, endpoint integrations).

·         Oracle Retail Experience: Deep technical exposure to Oracle RMS/RMFCS database schemas, including advanced capability writing/reviewing complex operational PL/SQL queries and performance-tuning Oracle databases.

·         Agentic AI Proficiency: Demonstrated experience in developing autonomous AI agents. Practical experience with prompt engineering, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines.

·         Delivery & Agility: Proven capability to prioritize deliverables, architect reusable systems, and collaborate with Product Management teams in a fast-paced Agile environment (Jira/Git).

·         Cloud Environments: Familiarity with deploying, configuring, and maintaining enterprise applications in cloud and SaaS

Education: BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.