Engineer, Cloud Engineer - Software

Overview

Salary:
Competitive Plus Benefits.

Location:

London Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1M 6HA
. Contract type:
Permanent. Business area:
Sainsbury's Tech.

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 to feed the nation. The level of data, transactions and variety involved. Then you’ll realise this is a modern software engineering environment, because it has to be. We iterate, learn, experiment and champion ways of working such as Agile, Scrum and XP.

So you can look forward to exciting opportunities across everything from AI to reusable tech.

Sainsburys Tech - Engineer

Joining our team at Sainsbury s means being a part of an exceptionally dynamic and multi-faceted organisation that serves millions of customers daily. With the UK s largest loyalty scheme and cutting-edge digital platforms, we handle an astonishing 1.2 billion transactions each year, offering a vast and intricate dataset that few can match. As a Frontend Engineer, you will have the opportunity to create exceptional, high-performance products that deliver an amazing shopping experience to our customers.

In an inclusive and agile environment, your curiosity and experimentation will be embraced, allowing you to tackle real-world challenges and see the impact of your work in the hands of millions of people across the UK. With endless opportunities for growth and learning, you will be a valued member of our engineering community, continuously striving for improvement and contributing to the innovative techniques and technologies we employ.

Join us and be part of a team that encourages innovation, values your expertise, and prioritises work-life balance while delivering exceptional results.

• You will be responsible for owning the design and development of highly performant backend systems using technologies such as Java.
• You will contribute to our product technical roadmap and implement cloud and container technologies such as Kubernetes on AWS Platform.
• Leading the design and support of services and internal frameworks that enhance Sainsbury s capabilities will be part of your role.
• Throughout the whole product lifecycle, including decommissioning, you will demonstrate engineering expertise, knowledge of engineering and architectural principles, and proven experience in software design and implementation, security, cloud, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD.
• Your drive for continuous improvement, advocacy of agile/lean delivery methodologies, and passion for delivering solutions to customers will shine through in your work.
• You will display empathy and understanding in supporting your colleagues in the team to deliver, while also keeping yourself up-to-date with emerging technologies and maintaining a strong focus on work-life balance.

• You are a highly skilled professional with expertise in designing and developing highly performant backend systems.
• With a strong background in programming languages like Java, Springboot, AWS, you possess a deep understanding of engineering and architectural principles, enabling you to contribute to the product technical roadmap and implement cutting-edge cloud and container technologies.
• Your passion for continuous improvement, agile/lean delivery methodologies, and delivering solutions to customers drives you to constantly enhance your knowledge and explore emerging technologies.
• Your collaborative nature and commitment to the Dev Sec Ops  principles enable you to support and empower your colleagues in delivering exceptional results.

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:

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