Senior Software Engineer (23165) 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 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 thing's software, infrastructure, and data.

About the role

The position sits within our BX Online vertical and specifically our Personalisation Team. The team's focus area is the incorporation of customer data to personalise the online and in-store journeys. Additionally, we are in a multiyear journey of technical transformation which means that occasionally we are engaged on several lift and shift activities, re-writing or replacing legacy logic.

• • Fluent in Java (11+) and the Spring Framework specifically SpringBoot or similar (Quarkus, Micronaut)
  • Strong understanding of HTTP and REST as an architectural style to build APIs.
  • Fluent with asynchronous programming techniques and frameworks (in Java).
  • Fluent in SQL and experience with RDBMS like Postgres and Oracle.
  • Experience with Docker and docker-compose.
  • Exposure to AWS specifically S3, Aurora, ElasticCache
  • Exposure to modern CI/CD platforms like Gitlab (or similar GitHub Actions, CircleCI)
  • Understands the importance of monitoring and proactive in resolving critical issues.
  • Fluent in testing frameworks Junit, RestAssured
  • Desirable:
  • Exposure with monitoring and alerting platforms. Datadog, PagerDuty, Graphana, Prometheus
  • Exposure in Python Scripting
  • Exposure in deployment platforms like Kubernetes and tools like Helm.

  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.

• Pension company contribution = 5%
• Incentive scheme up to 10% of annual salary, based on company performance.
• Your wellbeing is paramount so you can get away and take 33 Days Holiday per year.
• Learning and Development opportunity with Holland & Barrett is a great base for career development long term.
• Private Medical Care (Self after 1 year)
• Career progression.
• Refer and Earn Scheme - as we're growing you can earn money by referring people to join us from your network.
• Epic Extras gives you access to exclusive benefits, free advice and savings from a range of retailers and providers.
• Stay healthy with Discounted Products - from day one you'll get a 25% discount (on top of other promotions) when you shop at H&B on anything that you buy.
• We all need a little help sometimes, so we offer Free 24/7 Confidential Advice & Colleague Welfare.
• Mental Health First Aiders - we have lots of qualified Mental Health First Aiders because its all about your health & wellbeing.
• Stay active in the Onsite Gym at our Nuneaton Hub!
• We have colleague Reward and Recognition Schemes, so your hard work and loyalty won't go unnoticed.
• And many more!