Software Engineer, Backend Developer, DevOps

Overview

We’re Kingfisher – a team of over 74,000 passionate people across brands such as B&Q, Screwfix, Brico Depot, Castorama and Koctas. Our purpose is Better Homes. Better Lives. For Everyone. We are entering a period of transformation and are looking for a highly motivated and experienced Software Engineer (Backend/Fullstack) to join our Digital Colleague team. The team builds and maintains the handheld application used daily in our stores for order picking, ad hoc stock counting and other operational tasks.

It is a business‑critical product with 24/7 availability.

• Design, develop, and maintain high‑quality backend and service‑layer solutions for the handheld application
• Collaborate with product, engineering, and store‑operations stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver valuable features
• Participate in code, design, and test reviews to ensure quality, maintainability, and performance
• Apply Dev Ops practices for continuous integration, automated testing, and deployment
• Integrate the application with monitoring and alerting tools to ensure reliability in a 24/7 environment
• Contribute to Agile ceremonies and help refine team processes
• Use data‑driven approaches to validate assumptions and iterate on product features
• Troubleshoot issues across the development lifecycle and support ongoing improvements

• Vue.js or another modern frontend framework
• REST APIs and service‑oriented architecture
• AWS and cloud‑native development
• Automated testing and CI/CD practices
• Software engineering best practices, including version control and code quality
• Agile delivery and cross‑functional collaboration

• Cypress or Playwright
• Distributed systems or microservices architecture
• Monitoring, observability and alerting tools

We believe in flexibility and balance. Our hybrid model blends home working for focus with time spent connecting and collaborating. On average, around 20% of your time will involve in‑person collaboration.

Our customers come from all walks of life – and so do we. We’re committed to ensuring all colleagues, future colleagues, and applicants are treated equally, regardless of age, gender, marital or civil partnership status, ethnicity, culture, religion, belief, political opinion, disability, gender identity, gender expression, or sexual orientation.

• Private Health Care – receive up to family level cover with AXA (subject to Benefit In Kind taxation).
• Kingfisher Pension Scheme – immediate eligibility through auto‑enrolment. Contribute 8% to receive a max 14% from the Company.
• 25 Days’ Holiday – 25 days per annum plus bank holidays as stated in your contract (prorated for part‑time colleagues).
• Staff Discount – 20% discount at B&Q and Screwfix (eligible after 3 months service).
• Kingfisher Share Incentive Plan – share ownership in a tax‑efficient way.
• Life Assurance – x4 Salary plus benefit equal to value of your Retirement Account (if an active member of KPS‑MP) or x1 Salary if not active member.
• Competitive bonus scheme that aligns to work level of role.
• Kingfisher Share Save – option to buy Kingfisher plc shares at the end of a 3 or 5 year period.