Senior Fullstack Engineer - .net (Coventry)

As a Senior Engineer (Full Stack - .Net), you’ll be part of one of our Engineering teams, applying architectural and engineering principles to define and deliver technology that will better customer experiences, improve efficiency and reduce business costs, helping us to lower prices. You’ll support your team by enabling performance, compliance and risk management by sharing your expertise, judgement and passion for delivering quality products for customers.

In the role, you’ll own the design and development of large-scale services with high performance using technologies such as the latest Microsoft .Net, React JS, Next.js, Microsoft SQL Server or MongoDB, Kubernetes & Docker - building and implementing into the platform. This includes embracing serverless functions and an event-driven development.

We use a variety of tech here and you need to be willing to pick up new tools and techniques. We’d also like you to be yourself – analytical, curious and unafraid to challenge the status quo. You’ll be a role model for best practices, championing a customer-centric mindset with a passion for finding creative ways to solve problems, mentoring fellow engineers as a progressive member of the engineering community.

More about the role

• You will own the design, build and support of large-scale high performant services using technologies such as the latest Microsoft .Net, React JS, Next.js, SQL or MongoDB together with containerised environments using Kubernetes & Docker.
• The in-house coding may include building products with user interfaces, so some experience of front-end development is necessary.
• This also includes the use of serverless functions and event-driven systems using Kafka to enable near real-time data transfers.
• You will also lead the implementation of technologies in making use of build and release pipelines, function apps, and hosted databases.
• It will be up to you to drive the product technical roadmap through a deep understanding of technology and broader understanding of roadmaps across corporate divisions.
• You will lead the design and support of services and internal frameworks that enhance Sainsbury’s capabilities.
• You will lead, guide, support and enable performance within a team (sized 6-8 including 3rd party developers) by providing technical knowledge, coaching and best practice ideas.
• We will look to you to contribute to optimising our OPEX and CAPEX spend by controlling costs and implementing cost efficiencies in software build and support.

More about you

• Possess programming language expertise in Microsoft .Net C#, ReactJs, Next.js, TypeScript, relational and non-relational database technologies with a deep knowledge of implementations to include both front end and backend development.
• Deep expertise in engineering practice, including engineering designs, patterns and anti-patterns and current architectural best practices.
• Proven experience of software design and implementation to include security, infrastructure as code, together with builds and the components needed to support such designs.
• Fully aware of the infrastructure possibilities of the environment. Experience with Azure and AWS is a plus.
• Self-driven and constantly striving to improve your team, division and peers.
• A drive for the advocacy of lean delivery methodologies.
• A passion for delivering solutions to customers, owning the whole Software Delivery Life Cycle and living the DevSecOps principles.
• A passion for enhancing your knowledge and evidencing curiosity in emerging technologies.
• Display empathy and understanding in supporting colleagues in the team to deliver.

Qualifications

We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer, so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new - whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them:

Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to get 10% off at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat after 4 weeks. This increases to 15% off at Sainsbury’s every Friday and Saturday and 15% off at Argos every pay day. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 20% of salary, depending on how we perform.

Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance, and you can buy additional holiday. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, interest-free car loan of up to £10k, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, pay advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an Employee Assistance Programme, you will also be eligible for private healthcare too.

Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave.

Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).

Responsibilities

We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. Think about the scale it takes for us to feed the nation. The level of data, transactions and variety it involves. Then you’ll realise that ours is a modern software engineering environment because it has to be. We’ve made serious investment into a Tech Academy and into setting standards and principles. We iterate, learn, experiment and push ways of working such as Agile, Scrum and XP. So you can look forward to awesome opportunities in everything from AI to reusable tech.