Staff Engineer - Modern Workplace
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: Holborn Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1N 2HT
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Sainsbury's Tech
Closing date: 02 June 2025
Requisition ID: 306085
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.
Why join us
Joining Sainsbury's as a Staff Engineer in Tooling means being part of a forward-thinking organisation where you can make a real impact on a massive scale. With cutting-edge technology and a focus on innovation, you'll have the opportunity to work on strategic projects that shape the future of the company. Collaborating with talented teams and utilising state-of-the-art tech tools, you'll be at the forefront of solving complex problems and driving continuous improvement. As a key player in our engineering community, you'll have the chance to broaden your technical knowledge, mentor others, and contribute to the growth and development of our teams, all while enjoying a flexible work environment and a range of attractive benefits.
What you'll do
You'll play a pivotal role in driving technical design, up-leveling teams, and maintaining high tech standards, while fostering collaborative relationships across various domains to ensure optimal technical decision-making within Sainsbury's tech ecosystem. Your hands-on development skills will be essential as you work alongside multiple teams on strategic projects, contributing to the creation of high-quality, well-designed solutions. Your expertise and mentorship will help engineers improve their productivity, solution quality, and code standards, while also supporting broader knowledge sharing and ensuring reusability of technology and skills across different domains. This role will see you act as a technical backbone, guiding teams, acting as a coach, and helping to recruit and mentor top engineering talent, contributing to the continuous growth and success of the tech team at Sainsbury's.
Who you are
You're a seasoned and dedicated engineer with a wealth of technical expertise and a broad understanding of software engineering tools and practises. Your ability to drive continuous improvement, evaluate risks, and make complex decisions contributes to achieving strategic goals and enhancing technical standards across the organisation. You excel in providing mentorship and guidance to engineering teams, fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation while continuously striving for excellence in software design and implementation. With your adaptability, strong interpersonal skills, and commitment to embracing challenges, you play a pivotal role in shaping the future of technology solutions and driving bold changes within the business.
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 save 10% on your shopping online and instore at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat, and we regularly increase the discount to 15% at points during the year. 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 (which may vary for Nectar360), depending on how we perform. Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance, and you can buy up to an additional week's holiday, and we provide private healthcare. 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, salary 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. 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).
