Staff Software Engineer - Java - React (Digital & Payments)
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. Are you passionate about new and innovative technology? Do you want to be at the forefront of innovation and the transformation of how Sainsbury’s supports their customers with any issue being faced? If so, you could be the perfect candidate for the Staff Engineering role across the Digital Instore, Pick & Fulfilment space. Do all this and more As the Staff Engineer, you will be an individual contributor actively working with Engineering teams to embrace the challenges in driving tech design, taking our engineers to the next level, keeping our tech standards high and building relations across engineering teams and stakeholders across Sainsbury’s tech. The most important bit for you - enjoying being a hands-on developer and defining where your skills make the most difference. You'll be tackling those tricky problems and helping to find solutions that will scale, delivering results for our customers and creating strategic value for Sainsbury’s. Working across the complex end to end architecture on cutting-edge solutions for our customers, scaling the volumes of contacts and using AI capabilities to excel through the automation of our colleague and customer experiences as well as how we use our tools.. Being obsessed with the customer is at heart of everything we do. With technology we are changing the world we live in for the better. Shouldn’t you be part of this? Why join us We’re a 150+ year-old business that operates on an incredible scale. There’s data from our 10 million+ Nectar users, days like Black Friday that make Argos the 3rd biggest website in the UK, and supply chain integration that gets the right products to the right locations on time, every time. The tech we use is bang up to date (state of the art), whether we’re in the cloud deploying over a 1,000 microservices into AWS, Azure & GCP or streaming billions of messages on Kafka and building event-based solutions. This is where you can broaden your technical knowledge and help solve complex problems while using your Agile skills to develop our long-lived teams. As a Staff Engineer, you’ll help us bring together those complex horizontal outcomes that go beyond a single team and area. Throughout, you’ll be working with engineers and 3rd parties to deliver high quality, well-designed, robust and scalable solutions. What You’ll Be Doing Work with the Senior Head of Engineering to set and achieve strategic goals and objectives; help evaluate and drive technical decisions and working with teams to help them plan the development and support needed to deliver. Work with engineers at all levels, you will promote technical standards, share your expertise, help them to find the best solutions and provide coaching and mentoring to set the teams for success and help them perform at their best. You will actively work with others to make sure the right challenges are highlighted and where your contribution will be truly valued and make that difference across the solution and Engineers. Work with your peers from across Sainsbury’s Tech to widen your knowledge, deliver broader solutions and ensure reusability of tech and skills across different domains – supporting and building your network of peers. In all, it’s a role that will see you act as a technical backbone, a point of contact and a coach and a guide. We have plans to expand our engineering entry programs and we want you to be a big part of that too, ensuring that we recruit the best talent and constantly raise the bar. Who You Are There’s no question that you’re an experienced and passionate engineer, with both technical depth and breadth. You can take the initiative, evaluate risks and drive continuous improvement to get the best outcomes. You trust your judgement and analysis to contribute to complex decision making. But you’ll also need the ability to become part of your teams and support them by leading from experience in what they’re doing. So, you should be strong in both technical and Agile mentorship, guiding on the engineering vision as well as helping them to increase their performance. Specializing across back end and front end technologies and software development you will bring us programming language expertise and experience of software design and implementation. Whether it’s Java, React or NextJs – these are a few of the core programming languages in this space. Listening and interpersonal skills will be vital to build relations and influence. Your ability to adapt and embrace the challenge will be essential in your journey through discovering the diversity of our tech and setting a path for big ambitions and bold changes. What You Could Do In Future There’s a lot of scope for widening your skills in this role, because it allows you to move into different areas, cover lots of ground and broaden your understanding of how Sainsbury’s works. When you want to take the next step up, a Principal Engineer role would help you build on everything that you’ve already learned and achieved. Your technical understanding will still be in play, but it’ll be as much about looking upwards and outwards — thinking about strategy and where we should be going and solving problems right across the technical organisation. In return You will enjoy all this and more:
- Flexible working – tailored approach to balance your working from home and collaboration in the office, sensible freedom to shape your week and day working hours, offices in different locations
- Colleague discount across our brands – Sainsbury’s, Argos and Habitat
- Health cover
- Holiday allowance
- Bonus scheme
- Pension plan
- Special offers on gym memberships, restaurants, holidays, retail vouchers and more