Node JS Fullstack Engineer

Node JS Fullstack Engineer

Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits Location: Holborn Store Support Centre, London, EC1N 2HT Contract type: Permanent Business area: Sainsbury's Tech Requisition ID: 253188

Every week we move millions of products to our customers at record speeds. Brilliant customer experiences at this kind of pace, require fresh and appealing products to be available whenever and however our customers shop with us. And in this area of our business, we help to make sure that happens.

By engineering innovative, smart technology, we put the tools in our colleagues’ hands to power a global supply chain. Whether it’s wine from New Zealand or milk from the local dairy farm, our tech performs. We solve problems at scale. We process billions of records, predicting and planning to make our customers lives easier. We keep our warehouses and stores operating smoothly around the clock, because what’s important to our customers, is important to us.

As a Fullstack Engineer (React / Node), you’ll be part of one of our Engineering squads, interpreting and following architectural and engineering principles, operating frameworks, and new and improved tech applications 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.

You will work closely with a team of highly skilled engineers to solve complex and challenging problems with sustainable and performant software. We value a collaborative and supportive working environment, providing the space and opportunity for everyone in the team to build the most valuable solutions and to help each other to develop our potential while doing so.

We use a variety of tech here and you need to be willing to pick up new tools and techniques. We’d also like you to be yourself – analytical, curious and unafraid to challenge the status quo. You’ll constantly strive to improve the way things are done in your team, contributing as a progressive member of the engineering community.

More about the role

• Work as part of a cross functional team owning the application lifecycle from inception all the way through to production, supporting business critical applications and services
• You’ll build services, libraries and tools by producing clean, maintainable and well-documented code
• Monitor and support production
• Design innovative solutions to complex problems, identifying and using the best tools and approaches appropriate to the problem and solution
• Work closely with technical and non-technical colleagues to ensure the applications and services we build meet the needs of our business
• Keep up with industry trends and new tools, technologies and development methods with a view to adopting best practices that are appropriate to our team
• Share knowledge with the rest of the team. Coach more junior members of the team

More about you

• Proven commercial experience in React, Node and Typescript
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Microservices architecture and Patterns (Strangler, pub/sub and event sourcing)
• JS libraries and Web Technologies such as React, Node, typescript, HTML5 and CSS
• JS coding patterns and best practices (DRY, observer and builder patterns)
• Databases – we use Neptune and DynamoDb (AWS)
• Experience with containerisation
• Familiarity with asynchronous and synchronous integration patterns – Kafka
• Good communications, listening skills and a mentoring mindset
• A team player who delivers software as part of a collaborative team

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

• Colleague discount across our multi-brands – Sainsbury’s, Argos and Habitat
• 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.