Senior Software Engineer - Frontend (22019) in London

Holland & Barrett International is striving to be the world's leading health and wellness business. Currently the largest in Europe and growing in other markets, the health and wellness of our colleagues and customers is at our heart. 

Technology at H&B

We're on a mission to make health and wellness a way of life for everyone – and technology is at the heart of our future plans to become a leading omni-channel retailer. We're building some great products, and we're investing in the rapidly advancing technology that is helping our customers meet their health and wellness goals. We're delivering more speed in the retail experience, greater convenience in service and delivery, and increasing personalisation in our brand and product propositions, both in-store and online.

Collaborative, working at pace and always with a strong customer focus in everything we do. We love the cloud, we prefer building the right solutions over buying generic ones, and we embrace automation and testing in all things software, infrastructure and data.

The Role

This position is key to the successful rollout of new products and platforms to continue transforming the online experience for our H&B customers. You will lead development of new features, and help us build high quality React components using module federation, and the latest front-end technologies. We embrace robust, scalable and fast to market web features together with great UX.

Our team encourages a culture of learning & knowledge sharing, and we love to show off our work to stakeholders.

Some of the essential day to day tasks and skills for this position are listed below. It's important to highlight that this is an evolving role, with multiple new, challenging tasks arising all the time. The position sits in our BX Online Department, Attraction Squad.

Day to day tasks & responsibilities, but not limited to:

• Oversee project strategies, processes and pitch improvements
• Attend and coordinate standup meetings and help with task estimations
• Work on tasks from the current sprint, report and pitch on progress
• Design product upgrades and improvements
• Maintain technical documentation
• Support the build of high quality products
• Review merge requests from other developers, and support where necessary
• Collaborate with other developers and share best practice
• Guide the QA engineer with testing
• Update the product manager with progress and estimates
• Share knowledge and innovations, improve the squads outputs and function
• Do remote demos to stakeholders
• Help team to resolve any necessary issues and bugs

Skills and requirements:

• Code in modern JavaScript using React, we'd like you to have 5+ years' experience
• Have a great understanding of Typescript
• Possess a strong understanding of REST & GraphQL APIs
• Ability to compose responsive code using latest CSS techniques
• Write unit tests using jest & be able to write component tests using react-testing-library or similar
• Be familiar with Storybook and writing story shot tests
• Run Docker containers in local dev environment
• Basic shell scripting including CLI tools
• Collaborate and contribute to the various features being built as part of the product roadmap in a team
• Break large problems into sub-tasks and take operational responsibility.

We offer a flexible, home-based working model. We have offices in Nuneaton and London, but you will not be required to be office-based (unless you would like to!) All candidates must be UK based.

Holland & Barrett is one of the nation's most loved and trusted brands, known for offering quality health food, vitamins and supplements all sold by highly trained and qualified advisors.

Our culture respects equality, values diversity and encourages individuality – because this allows our people to unlock their potential and be their best. We welcome everyone who shares our EPIC values regardless of background, culture, disability, ethnicity, gender identity or sexual orientation. 

We are a growing and pioneering business.  Our diverse and EPIC teams enable us to push boundaries and accomplish the extraordinary.  As we continue to transform, we need more of the brightest and best minds to join us to turn our vision into a reality.  

• We operate virtually. Remote, hybrid or in our tech hubs – we work in an agile environment where you can thrive. It's up to you.
• We offer a 10% incentive scheme, based on company performance – when we win, so do you
• Learn from the best – at H&B you'll have the opportunity to enhance and expand your skills and shape your career
• We want you to produce your best, so we provide you with the best tech equipment
• Stay healthy with a 25% discount on all product ranges to help you live well
• We like to recognise and celebrate our people with our Colleague Recognition Scheme, so your hard work won't go unnoticed