Frontend Engineer

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.

Sainsburys Tech - Frontend Engineer

Why join us

We think we’ve got the most exciting data set in the country — thanks to over 1.2 billion transactions per year. For you, it means the chance to solve real-world problems and see your creations in the hands of millions of people across the UK. As a Frontend Engineer, you’ll create great products by interpreting and following best practice architectural and engineering principles, operating frameworks, and new and improved tech applications and solutions. You’ll also have the chance to be yourself – analytical, curious and unafraid to learn new skills or challenge the status quo. You’ll always look to improve the way things are done in your team, too.

What you'll do

You’ll own the design and development of high performance, user-friendly web frontends using technologies such as react.js, redux, redux saga and typescript.

You’ll also contribute to our product technical roadmap, and work with cloud and container technologies like Kubernetes on AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform. In addition, you’ll lead the design and support of services and internal frameworks that enhance Sainsbury’s Group capabilities.

Taking on engineering throughout the whole product lifecycle, including decommissioning, you’ll take time to think about the cost and service support implications of your engineering choices.

Who you are

You’ll have programming expertise in one or more of Javascript, ReactJS, Swift/iOS, Android, Kotlin, Java, Springboot or Golang, and your knowledge of engineering practice will cover architectural principles. Experience of software design and implementation, security, cloud, infrastructure as code and CI/CD and relevant hardware will be key.

We’ll also look for self-drive and a push for advocacy of agile/lean delivery methodologies. As well as this, you’ll have a passion for delivering solutions to customers, owning the whole SDLC and living the DevSecOps principles. If you also want to learn more about emerging tech and help the whole team deliver, we should be talking.

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 save 10% on your shopping online and instore at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat, and we regularly increase the discount to 15% at points during the year. 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 10% 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 up to an additional week's holiday. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, salary 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.

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 eligibiity criteria may apply).