Senior Java Engineer role at Sainsbury's

Join to apply for the Senior Java Engineer role at Sainsbury's. We’re a multi-channel, multi-brand business serving millions of customers a day, with the UK’s largest loyalty scheme and an ever-evolving set of digital platforms. All of this equals over 1.2 billion transactions each year, presenting a volume, depth, and complexity of data that few can match. We’ve invested in a Tech Academy and in setting standards and principles. We iterate, learn, experiment and push ways of working such as Agile, Scrum and XP to deliver high-quality software solutions. You’ll have opportunities to work on AI, reusable tech and cutting-edge technology in a modern software engineering environment.

As a Senior Java Engineer, you’ll be part of one of our Engineering teams, creating great products by interpreting and following best practice architectural and engineering principles, operating frameworks, and new and improved tech applications and solutions. Using Java (17+) with tools and frameworks like Spring Boot and Maven, you’ll own the design and development of large-scale, high-performance services, including websites, apps, microservices and event driven architecture.

We’d also like you to be yourself – analytical, curious and unafraid to learn new skills or challenge the status quo. You’ll constantly strive to improve the way things are done in your team, contributing as a progressive member of the engineering community.

More about the role

• You’ll own the design and development of large-scale high performance services using Java (17+) with tools and frameworks like Spring Boot and Maven. This includes websites, apps, microservices and event driven architecture
• You’ll contribute to our product technical roadmap
• You’ll work with cloud and container technologies such as Kubernetes on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform
• You’ll lead the design and support of services and internal frameworks that enhance Sainsbury’s Group capabilities
• Engineering throughout the whole product lifecycle, including decommissioning
• You’ll consider the cost and service support implications of your engineering choices

More about you

• Possess strong programming language expertise in Java and Springboot
• Expertise in engineering practice, including knowledge of engineering, architectural principles, unit testing, TDD
• Proven experience of software design and implementation, security, cloud, infrastructure as code and CI/CD and any relevant hardware
• Self-drive and constantly striving to improve your team, division and peers
• Drive for advocacy of agile/lean delivery methodologies
• A passion for delivering solutions to customers, owning the whole SDLC and living the DevSecOps principles
• A passion for enhancing your knowledge and evidence curiosity in emerging tech
• Display empathy and understanding in supporting colleagues in the team to deliver

Work-life balance is important to us, so we offer our colleagues as much flexibility as possible in line with the needs of their role. We trust them to decide how, where and when they work, combining remote and collaborative working with a flexible approach to hours, giving them plenty of time and space for life outside of work whilst delivering against our business goals.

Company Benefits

• Competitive pay - We make sure every one of our colleagues are fairly paid for the work they do.
• Pensions - We have a pension scheme that you can join and if you don't we will automatically enrol you if you meet certain conditions. We will also pay into your pension.
• Life Cover - We provide life cover equating to your annual contractual basic pay and enhanced life cover if you join the pension and pay Step Up contributions.
• Colleague discounts - We give a joyful 10% off, and sometimes more, for you and a nominated second user, every time you shop with any of our brands.
• Other retail savings - We give access to hundreds of discounts at over a thousand retailers, including restaurants, cinemas and retail stores. What’s not to love?
• Wellbeing support - We’re here to support you our with 24/7 access to our employee assistance programme, an online wellbeing platform and much more.
• Career opportunities - Alongside our opportunities to learn and grow, we provide an inclusive environment with active colleague networks.
• Enhanced leave options - Our options include holiday, family leave (including maternity, paternity, adoption and more) and career breaks.

Seniority level: Mid-Senior level

Employment type: Full-time

Job function: Information Technology and Engineering

Industries: Retail

London, England, United Kingdom