<p><strong>Sainsbury's Tech</strong></p> <p>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.</p> <p>We use a variety of tech here and you need to be willing to pick up new tools and techniques. You’ll be a role model for best practices, championing a customer centric mindset and a passion for finding creative ways to solve problems, mentoring fellow engineers as a progressive member of the engineering community.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Why join us:</strong></p> <p>As Full-Stack Engineer, you’ll create great products by interpreting and applying best practice architectural and engineering principles, operating frameworks and new and improved tech applications. We’d also like you to be yourself – analytical, curious and unafraid to learn new skills or challenge the status quo. You’ll look to improve the way things are done in your team too, and as part of our commitment to your personal development, you will receive two personal development days a month.</p> <p><strong>What you'll do:</strong></p> <ul> <li>You will design and build large scale high-performance Node.js products and services to be used by a wide variety of teams throughout the organisation. &nbsp;</li> <li>Work closely with UX/UI experts to build internal facing tools using React that empower our colleagues to fulfil their roles effectively, working very closely with our end users to build accessible and effective software.</li> <li>You will build cloud-native systems running on AWS and own the whole solution, from breaking down user requirements, to building out the infrastructure via Terraform and our internal PaaS to monitoring and supporting software in production.</li> <li>Leading the design and support of services and internal frameworks that enhance our capabilities, you’ll be engineering throughout the whole product lifecycle. Throughout, you’ll think about the cost and service support implications of your engineering choices.</li> <li>You will use a test first mindset and TDD/BDD/DDD principles to build safe, scalable and secure software, delivering in an Agile environment that values continuous deployment.</li> <li>You will contribute and help expand our Sainsbury’s Design Ecosystem, which provides designs via Figma UI kits, digital experience guidance, design resources and documentation to enable teams to create high-quality, consistent and accessible user experiences for customers, colleagues and suppliers, across all our brands.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Who you are:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Programming expertise in React and Node.js</li> <li>Great expertise in engineering practice, including deep knowledge of engineering and architectural principles</li> <li>Proven experience of software design and implementation, security, cloud, infrastructure as code and CI/CD and any relevant hardware</li> <li>Self-drive and constantly striving to improve your team, division and peers through coaching and mentoring</li> <li>Drive for advocacy of agile/lean delivery methodologies</li> <li>A passion for delivering solutions to customers, owning the whole SDLC and living the DevSecOps principles</li> <li>A passion for enhancing your knowledge and evidence curiosity in emerging tech</li> <li>Display empathy and understanding in supporting colleagues in the team to deliver</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Benefits &nbsp;</p> <ul> <li>As well as lots of on-the-job training and endless opportunities, you’ll get: &nbsp;</li> <li>Colleague discount across our multi-brands – Sainsbury’s, Argos, Tu and Habitat, plus:</li> <li>Holiday allowance &nbsp;</li> <li>Bonus scheme &nbsp;</li> <li>Pension plan &nbsp;</li> <li>Special offers on gym memberships, restaurants, holidays, retail vouchers and more &nbsp;</li> </ul> <p>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.&nbsp;</p> <p>#LI-IC1</p>