Senior Software Engineer

About the Role:

We're on the lookout for a talented Senior Backend Engineer to join our Space and Range team at Holland & Barrett. In this role, you'll play a key part in developing and enhancing the tools that shape how our stores are designed-from the overall layout to the placement of every bay and shelf. These tools help visualize our store environments in 3D, giving teams a near real-life view of what our customers will experience in-store.

You'll be working on impactful, business-critical products that influence how we present and optimize our key sales channels-contributing directly to our growth strategy and customer experience.

We're looking for someone who thrives in a culture of ownership. If you believe in a "you build it, you own it" approach and take pride in building robust, high-quality systems, you'll fit right in.

You'll be part of a supportive, cross-functional team working on solutions for an international business. Our hybrid working model offers flexibility to work remotely most of the time, with occasional in-person sessions for planning, collaboration, and team building at our offices in London or Nuneaton.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable backend services using Java and Spring.
• Work with databases, including SQL (e.g., Postgres) and NoSQL (e.g., DynamoDB).
• Build, test, and optimize technical solutions.
• Develop event-driven systems leveraging Kafka for messaging.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams, including frontend engineers, UX, and product management.
• Contribute to architectural decisions, ensuring maintainability, scalability, and high performance.
• Take full ownership of production systems, ensuring they run smoothly and meet user expectations.
• Build tooling for debugging, monitoring, and support automation.

Key Requirements:

• Proven experience in backend development with Java.
• Spring boot and hibernate frameworks.
• Proficiency in building APIs, microservices, and implementing event-driven architectures.
• Experience with databases, including SQL and NoSQL.
• Familiarity with AWS cloud services such as S3, RDS, and DynamoDB.
• Strong focus on writing clean, modular, testable code with experience in unit and integration testing.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and version control systems like Git.

What we offer:

• Pension company contribution = 3%
• 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.
• Private Medical Care (Self after 1 year)
• Learning and Development opportunity with Holland & Barrett is a great base for career development long term.
• 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!

We're passionate about helping every colleague thrive across all dimensions of wellbeing, and we're committed to having a diverse and inclusive workplace. In line with our EPIC values (Expertise, Pioneering, Inclusive, Caring), we embrace and actively celebrate all our colleagues' unique and varying experiences, backgrounds, identities and cultures - I am me, we are H&B.