Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer

We’re Kingfisher. You might know us as B&Q, Screwfix, Castorama, Brico Depot or Koçtaş. We’re made up of over 77,000 passionate people, call over 1,300 stores home and operate in 8 countries. That’s right, we’re big, but we have ambitions to become even bigger and even better. We are looking for talented, digitally minded pioneers to come and join our fast-growing team. Here, you’ll discover an environment where creators and innovators come together to shape the future of home improvement. We want to become the leading home improvement company and grow the largest community of home improvers in the world. And that’s where you come in!

Responsibilities

We are looking for Senior Developers who have in-depth knowledge of our organisation enables you to go beyond building applications that just meet business requirements, but you are operating at a level where you are consistently identifying areas for future work and really are the driving force behind our applications evolving. You will seek evidence to support your ideas and build cases for everyone to get onboard with, whilst operating with confidence. You contribute to the common code bases and standards for your team and wider engineering principles, as well as following Object Orientated Design and SOLID principles. Not only do you give to these assets, but you communicate, and lead by example so your peers are adhering to these methods and we are collectively crafting high-quality code. TDD is at the heart of how you write code, always seeking for automated testing and constantly identifying and creating new automated test cases. Naturally with all software engineering roles there may also an aspect of out of hours technical support of our production systems.

• Working in a feature team with delivery leads, scrum masters, solution architects, technical leads, software engineers, analysts, and testers in a collaborative environment delivering business value.
• In your agile development team, pair programme with other software engineers.
• Use TDD to develop scalable and maintainable applications.
• Assist with the continual deployment of our applications into a production environment and provide support for these applications.
• Through your work you will gain an understanding of our business processes to help ensure that the solutions you deliver meet customer needs.
• Working with Node.js, JavaScript and TypeScript (mainly backend but with a bit of frontend too)

Qualifications

• Demonstrates a good understanding of programming through building quality, performant, and secure solutions.
• Proactively contributes to bug fixing and maintaining applications, whilst always striving to reduce technical debt in the process.
• Has the ability to interpret our digital strategy and can help us drive us towards our goals when crafting solutions
• Has the ability to influence others, both inside and outside of their team.
• Has the ability to build lasting and collaborative relationships and can build buy in for technical decisions.
• Can make pragmatic decisions, identifies risks, trade-offs and alternative solutions to be considered
• Able to clearly communicate scope and progress, and share roadblocks being faced currently and anticipating future roadblocks.
• Proficiency in Node.js, JavaScript and TypeScript
• React and frontend development experience would be a big plus

What we offer

In return, we offer an inclusive environment, where what you can achieve is limited only by your imagination! We encourage new ideas, actively support experimentation, and strive to build an environment where everyone can be their best self. We’re also offering the opportunity to work on a green data platform, with the ability to work on industry leading technology and gain experience on parallel disciplines such as DevOps and security.

We’re adopting a hybrid approach with some office and some home working, on average 40-60% in the office, but varying based on team consensus. You will be based in our office in Krakow, where we opened a global Business Services (GBS) Centre in 2017.

We also offer a competitive benefits package and plenty of opportunities to stretch and grow your career.

• Private medical healthcare at LUXMED (including dentalcare) for you and your family

• Medicover sports card (Fit&More package)

• Life insurance financed by the employer

• Work in a highly professional and stimulating atmosphere

• Training & Buddy programme that will allow you to quickly adapt to your new role

• Wellbeing programme for employees

• Co-financing of monthly tickets for the public transport in Krakow

• Comfortable working environment in the office and the possibility of home office

• Language courses, accounting courses, access to LinkedIn Learning and the possibility of co-financing studies and certification

• Employee referral programme

• Hybrid working model

Interested? Great, apply now and help us to Power the Possible.