Senior E-Commerce Full Stack Software Engineer

Senior E-Commerce Full Stack Software Engineer

FGH Business Centre 66-70 Vicar Ln, Bradford BD1 5AJ

Hybrid flexibility: 2 full office days per week

Are you a dedicated and experienced Software Development professional looking for a new opportunity to elevate your career?

Are you an enthusiastic problem solver passionate about driving innovative and workable solutions?

Now is a fantastic time to join our Technology and Digital Team as we embark on an exciting and ambitious transformation programme to modernise our digital capabilities and optimise and enhance our customer journey.

Working collaboratively with a team of transformation experts you will have the flexibility to leverage your professional experience to solve computer engineering issues across a variety of technical areas, dependent on where your interests lie.

Innovation is key as we look for new ideas which will improve the customer experience and our business processes.

About The Role

The Senior E-commerce Full Stack Software Engineer role is responsible for the design, development and optimisation of secure, high-performing E-Commerce B2C websites and shopping Apps that enhance customer experience and business performance.

The Role Involves

• The role involves working collaboratively with E-Commerce team members, CRO and digital analytics analysts, SEO analysts, creative and UX designers and digital experience owners to:
• Develop and maintain conversion rate optimization (CRO) and personalisation functional experiments (A/B tests), introduce SEO features, optimise web page response times, manage marketing tags and digital analytics integration designed to enhance customer experience and achieve business growth objectives.
• Build and maintain high impact, high performance, responsive web sites and Apps whilst ensuring seamless integration with back-end services, through leveraging Agile software development practices.

What You'll Be Doing

• Building and maintaining high-quality CRO and personalisation experiments (A/B tests) that will help us learn, improve, and optimise our customers online shopping experience.
• Developing and maintaining our websites to boost search engine crawlability, search engine visibility and improved search index rankings.
• Optimising end to end website performance, ensuring fast page load times and smooth user interactions, cross-browser compatibility and accessibility standards compliance.
• Developing, implementing and maintaining scalable, secure and high-performance, responsive web pages by developing using front-end technologies (HTML5,CSS, jQuery) and server-side scripting technology (Microsoft ASP).
• Developing, implementing and maintaining scalable, secure and high-performance cross-platform Apps using open-source frameworks (Apache Cordova, ionic).
• Using monitoring tools (New Relic) and ELK to proactively identify and resolve performance bottlenecks and system issues.
• Keeping up to date with emerging E-commerce technologies, industry trends and best practices.
• Participating and providing technical insights during Agile influenced ceremonies, including sprint planning sessions, stand-ups and retrospectives.
• Ensuring web development security best practices are implemented and maintained that comply with applicable UK regulations such as UK-GDPR, UK Payment Services Regulations and PCI-DSS.
• To be always committed to good outcomes for customers.
• To demonstrate behaviours in line with our Company values.
• To take reasonable care for the health and safety of yourself and other persons who may be affected by acts and omissions at work.

About You

Essential

• 10+ years of experience in software development, building high-traffic, high availability systems with at least 3 years in a front-end software engineer role.
• Proven track record of developing and maintaining performant, scalable and secure transactional E-Commerce websites.
• Proficiency in HTML5, CSS and JavaScript with strong experience with front-end frameworks such as AngularJS, jQuery.
• Experience of working with server-side scripting languages or frameworks (Microsoft ASP, .NET) and of integrating front-end technologies (HTML5,CSS, jQuery).
• Experience of integrating front-end digital marketing technologies such as Tag management (Adobe Launch), Digital Analytics (Adobe Analytics), A/B testing, CRO and Personalisation (Adobe Target).
• Familiarity with mobile app development frameworks such as Apache Cordova, ionic).
• Experience in performance optimisation techniques (lazy loading, code splitting, caching) and familiarity with web front-end performance metrics such as (FCP, LCP, CLS).
• Knowledge of front-end security best practices for protection against vulnerabilities such as CSRF, XSS,CORS.

Desirable

• Strong E-Commerce knowledge in one or more of the following areas:
• Digital Marketing (SEO, Digital Advertising (Google Marketing Platform), Social (Meta, Pinterest, TikTok).
• Digital Merchandising (Search and Navigation, Product Recommendations, Product Reviews (Power Reviews).
• Experience of working with Agile methodologies such as Scrum or Kanban and of working within Agile software development environments.
• Experience with DevOps practices including CI/CD build pipelines (GitLab, Jenkins, Selenium).

ABOUT US: FGH DIGITAL

For over 100 years, Freemans has been at the forefront of home shopping, delivering quality products and exceptional service. We've accepted the challenge to transform our business into a modern, digital-first retailer.

With a rich heritage and an eye on the future, we are a forward-thinking, tech-driven online retail business, making fabulous fashion and stylish homewares accessible and affordable for everyone.

Based in West Yorkshire and part of the OTTO group one of the world's largest online retail organisations, Freemans Grattan Holdings (FGH) is the home of familiar brands such as Freemans, Grattan, Kaleidoscope, and Curvissa.

What We Offer You

FLEXIBILITY

We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working options to help you achieve a healthy work life balance. Our full time head office colleagues work a minimum of 2 days per week in the office, allowing the perfect balance between collaborative in-person team work and the flexibility to work from home.

TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT

Turning your job into a career is a real passion for us and our development programmes will enable you to grow in role.

We offer clear career pathways that will show you the way, outlining the skills, behaviours and knowledge needed to perform at the next step.

We invest in our colleagues, giving them all the opportunity to progress. Our inspired leadership programme is aimed at equipping our future leaders to coach, develop, manage change and maintain situational awareness.

INCLUSIVITY

As a business, we depend on a fusion of identities, characteristics, backgrounds, and cultures to fully appreciate our people and our customers. Freemans has a long-standing commitment to ensuring fairness and balance.

Our company is an inclusive organisation where everybody can make the most of their talent and abilities. Our pay, reward, and progression approach is based solely on fairness and merit.

Benefits

We firmly believe that we should reward our brilliant people with extensive benefits to help them stay healthy, relax and re-energise, have fun, manage the day-to-day and plan for the future. Here are just some of our great benefits:

• Competitive salaries and annual bonus scheme
• 37 days holiday including bank holidays
• Healthcare cash plan
• Competitive pension scheme
• Life assurance
• Paid paternity and maternity leave
• Incredible staff discounts
• Subsidised Canteen

Ready to apply?

If you're excited about this opportunity and want to join FGH, click apply now to send us your application.