Staff/Lead Engineer - Up to £110,000 - Hybrid

Job Description

Do all this and moreWork alongside multiple teams on projects and efforts that have strategic value to the company. Embrace the challenges through driving tech design, up-levelling the teams, keeping tech standards high and building relations between the (domains) to ensureoptimal technical decision making across wider ecosystem of the companies tech. And of course, enjoy being hands- on developer choosing where your skills make the most difference.Through technology, were changing the world we live in for the better. Shouldnt youWhy join themTheyre a 150+ year-old business that operates on an incredible scale. Theres data from their 10 million+ users, days like Black Friday that make them one of the biggest websites in the UK, and supply chain integration that gets the right products to theright locations on time, every time.The tech they use is bang up to date (state of the art), whether theyre in the cloud deploying over a 1,000 microservices into AWS, Azure & GCP or streaming billions of messages on Kafka and building event-based solutions.This is where you can broaden your technical knowledge and help solve complex problems while using your Agile skills to develop our long-lived teams. As a Staff Engineer, youll help them bring together those complex horizontal outcomes that go beyond asingle team and area. Throughout, youll be working with engineers and 3rd parties to deliver high quality and well-designed solutions.What youll be doingWork with the Head of Engineering to set and achieve strategic goals and objectives; help evaluate and drive technical decisions and plan teams development and support.Work with engineers at all levels, promoting technical standards, sharing your expertise, helping them to find the best solutions while also giving them coaching and mentoring to set the teams for success and help them perform at their best. You will haveflexibility to use your judgement and feedback to pick the challenges where your contribution is needed the most. you will be helping our engineers to be the best they can be.Work with your peers from other areas to widen your knowledge, deliver broader solutions and ensure reusability of the tech and skills across different domains and also support each other.In all, its a role that will see you act as a technical backbone, a point of contact and a coach and a guide. We have plans to expand our engineering entry programs and we want you to be a big part of that too, ensuring that we recruit the best talent andconstantly raise the bar.Who you areTheres no question that youre an experienced and passionate engineer, with both technical depth and breadth. You can take the initiative, evaluate risks and drive continuous improvement to get the best outcomes. You trust your judgement and analysis tocontribute to complex decision making.But youll also need the ability to become part of your teams and support them by leading from experience in what theyre doing. So, you should be strong in both technical and Agile mentorship, guiding on the engineering vision as well as helping them toincrease their performance. Whether you specialise in software, data, infrastructure, or network, youll bring programming language expertise and experience of software design and implementation.Listening and interpersonal skills will be vital to build relations and influence. Your ability to adapt and embrace the challenge will be a good help in your journey through discovering the diversity of our tech and setting a path to big ambitions and boldchanges.What you could do in futureTheres a lot of scope for widening your skills in this role, because it allows you to move into different areas, cover lots of ground and really broaden your understanding of how the business works. When you want to take the next step up, a Principal Engineerrole would help you build on everything that youve already learned and achieved. Your technical understanding will still be in play, but itll be as much about looking upwards and outwards - thinking about strategy and where we should be going and solvingproblems right across the technical organisation.In returnYoull enjoy all this and more:

• Flexible working - tailored approach to balance your working from home and collaboration in the office, sensible freedom to shape your week and day working hours, offices in different locations
• Colleague discount across their brands
• Health cover
• Holiday allowance
• Bonus scheme
• Pension plan
• Special offers on gym memberships, restaurants, holidays, retail vouchers and more

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