What’s the role about?

As the UK’s most successful omni-channel retailer, E-Commerce is a key part of Our Business - we run two of the busiest websites in the UK, driving a significant proportion of our sales. Our Engineering practice includes 60+ teams, working on everything from Cloud Platforms to Mobile Apps, from E-Commerce functionality to Machine Learning.

Our Engineers work collaboratively and share knowledge, and learning is extremely important to us. We support our Engineers to continuously improve their skills and keep abreast of the latest technologies.

Find out more about being a Software Engineer in the Partnership, and the technology we use.

What you’ll be doing?

This is an opportunity to join one of our agile product teams working as a Senior Back-end Software Engineer. You will be using your excellent Kotlin or Java skills to build and support new features adding value for Our Business.

As a Senior Engineer, you will also use your knowledge of Software Engineering to lead the shaping of new projects and support the professional development of less experienced Engineers. 

Successful candidates will have a passion for using technology to deliver outstanding and innovative software solutions, and will have a track record of working in teams delivering complex, performant, high quality software. 

What you’ll already have:

• Expertise in either server side Kotlin or a modern version of Java.

• A structured approach to systems analysis and development.

• A good understanding of Microservice Architectures.

• Experience with application frameworks such as http4k or Spring Boot.

• An understanding of Agile development methods such as Scrum or Kanban.

• Familiarity with techniques like TDD and pair programming.

• Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery.

• REST API development and/or consumption.

What else you could bring:

• Experience with Cloud Platforms such as AWS, GCP or Azure.

• Docker, Kubernetes.

• Jenkins, Gitlab CI.

Where will you be working?

We have opportunities at both our John Lewis Head Office in London Victoria, and Waitrose Head Office in Bracknell. Whilst you will have an office base - we promote a blended approach to working location. In order to maximise the benefits of remote and team working, you will be able to work from either our offices or from a remote location (as long as it is within the UK).  

We'll expect flexibility and will on occasions require you to be in the office. But for this role, it would be reasonable to plan on the basis of a 60/40 remote/office split.  In practice, we aim to maximise flexibility and these decisions will mostly be made locally within your team.