Fullstack Engineer - React & Golang

Senior Fullstack Engineer - React & Golang

Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits Location: Holborn Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1N 2HT Contract type: Permanent Business area: Sainsbury's Tech Closing date: 16 September 2024 Requisition ID: 247040

We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. Think about the scale it takes for us to feed the nation. The level of data, transactions and variety it involves. Then you’ll realise that ours is a modern software engineering environment because it has to be. We’ve made serious investment into a Tech Academy and into setting standards and principles. We iterate, learn, experiment and push ways of working such as Agile, Scrum and XP. So you can look forward to awesome opportunities in everything from AI to reusable tech.

Sainsburys Tech - Senior Fullstack Engineer - React & Golang

Job Description

Sainsburys Tech

We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. Think about the scale it takes for us to feed the nation. The level of data, transactions and variety it involves. Then you’ll realise that ours is a modern software engineering environment because it has to be. We’ve made serious investment into a Tech Academy and into setting standards and principles. We iterate, learn, experiment and push ways of working such as Agile, Scrum and XP. So you can look forward to awesome opportunities in everything from AI to reusable tech. We advocate for a work arrangement that aligns with your goals and lifestyle preferences whenever feasible.

C5 Senior Engineer Web Technologies

Location: London/Home

Grade: C5

We’re a multi-channel, multi-brand business serving millions of customers a day, with the UK’s largest loyalty scheme and an ever-evolving set of digital platforms. All this equals over 1.2 billion transactions each year, presenting a volume, depth and complexity of data that few can match.

Nectar and Nectar360 are a core part of Sainsbury’s Business Model, to deliver Loyalty and Rewards programme across Sainsbury’s and Coalition brands investing in what matters to Customers. Using our unmatched Nectar data-set and full encompassing media portfolio we create impactful and relevant customer experiences – connecting our brand partners to their customers.

You’ll be part of one of our Engineering squads working on Ad-tech, interpreting and following architectural and engineering principles, operating frameworks, and new and improved technology and solutions. With your technical craft, curiosity and experimentation, you’ll use judgement to apply specific techniques to deliver focused outcomes that support our customers.

About the role

• You’ll own the design and development of large-scale high performance services using technologies such as Kotlin, Android, Golang and Docker, including websites, apps, micro services and event-driven architecture.
• Collaboratively contribute to the design and support of services and internal frameworks.
• Actively participate in research, scoping, and planning activities for the development of new domain and platform capabilities, working closely with engineering and product managers.
• Lead the design and support of services and internal frameworks to enhance Sainsbury’s capabilities.
• Guide, support, and enable performance within the squad by providing technical knowledge and ideas.
• Remove technical blockers for fellow developers with their work by providing your support or connecting with the right people.
• To be a role model that represents all the standards and principles by which developers need to work with.
• Analyse existing operations to identify risks and redundancies and conduct comprehensive assessments to develop solutions.
• Mentor fellow engineers and promote the engineering community of practice through its program of events.
• Good understanding of the top 10 OWASP principles, with demonstrable experience in secure design and build.
• You have a passion for delivering solutions to customers, owning the whole Software Development Lifecycle.
• Display empathy and understanding in supporting colleagues in the team in delivering.

What You Need to Know:

• The ability to produce high-quality code in modern programming languages such as Go (Golang), Node.js, and TypeScript.
• Extensive experience with JavaScript, including the Node.js ecosystem, REST, Mono repositories, GitHub Actions, GraphQL or tRPC APIs, and React with hooks and redux.
• Experience with NoSQL databases, preferably MongoDB Atlas.
• Proficiency in AWS services, including AWS Lambda, Terraform, and CloudWatch, is required.
• Expertise in engineering practices, including architectural principles, software design, security, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and a bonus for knowledge of relevant hardware.
• A self-driven attitude with a focus on continuous improvement and leadership within your team and division. Experience in mentoring and guiding peers is highly valued.
• Strong support for agile/lean delivery methodologies, with a default approach to Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Pair Programming.
• A passion for delivering customer-centric solutions, owning the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), and adhering to DevSecOps principles.
• Experience in building RESTful APIs, understanding authentication & authorization mechanisms, and microservices web development.
• A continuous desire to enhance your knowledge and explore emerging technologies, demonstrating a commitment to staying at the forefront of tech advancements.

Benefits

As well as lots of on-the-job training and endless opportunities, you’ll get:

Colleague discount across our multi-brands – Sainsbury’s, Argos, Tu and Habitat, plus:

• Holiday allowance
• Bonus scheme
• Pension plan
• Special offers on gym memberships, restaurants, holidays, retail vouchers and more

Work-life balance is important to us, so we offer our colleagues as much flexibility as possible in line with the needs of their role. We trust them to decide how, where and when they work, combining remote and collaborative working with a flexible approach to hours, giving them plenty of time and space for life outside of work whilst delivering against our business goals.

We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer, so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new - whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them:

 Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to get 10% off at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat after 4 weeks. This increases to 15% off at Sainsbury’s every Friday and Saturday and 15% off at Argos every pay day. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 20% of salary, depending on how we perform.

 Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance, and you can buy additional holiday. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, interest free car loan of up to £10k, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, pay advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an Employee Assistance Programme, you will also be eligible for private healthcare too.

Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave.

 Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).