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Form of workAbout the role:
Please note this is a Hybrid role. On-site office requirements, once every 4-6 weeks in our London and Nuneaton office.
Holland & Barrett is one of the nation's most loved and trusted brands, known for offering quality health food, vitamins and supplements all sold by highly trained and qualified advisors. Bucking the current trend of high street retailers, we forecast significant growth and expansion plans in the coming years, with considerable investment going into all areas of the business.
We need to be at the forefront of the rapidly advancing technology that is helping our customers meet their health and wellness goals. We are investing heavily in delivering more speed in the retail experience, greater convenience in service and delivery, and increasing personalisation in our brand and product propositions, both in-store and online.
We love the cloud, we prefer building the right solutions over buying generic ones, and we embrace automation and testing in all things software, infrastructure and data. We certainly embrace change and drive speed in everything we do. Every day presents a different challenge, but is filled with fun, teamwork and passion to succeed and surpass every expectation.
Join us and see how far you can go...
Responsibilities:
One of the largest parts of the business we are looking to grow and change our technical capability in are our Stores. We are looking at the future of shopping and we are moving away from expensive, slow-moving, third-party products to new solutions that are flexible and built in house to meet our needs from day one.
As an experienced Java/Microservices Developer you will have experience in building applications which is delivered on cloud-based services in a disruptive environments with microservices architectures.
- Identify potential systems solutions to business needs, analysing the solution feasibility in conjunction with senior developers and technical architects
- Research and suggest new open source tools and techniques that can be utilized in the team
- Develop and maintain expertise in best practice development methodologies and techniques
- Document proposed solutions to allow sign-off by technical specifications in a clear, concise and structured
Skills & Experience:
- Strong Development background in Java, Spring Boot
- Experience developing and working in a virtualized environment
- Experience using container based APIs including Docker, Docker Swarm, or Kubernetes
- Relational database design and optimization with MySQL, PostgreSQL
- Understanding of microservices architecture design and implementation
- Experience with RESTful services and APIs
- Experience with CI/CD e.g. Jenkins
- Agile/scrum development experience
- Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible / Chef / Puppet
- Strong collaboration and communication skills within distributed project teams
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.
- Learning and Development opportunity with Holland & Barrett is a great base for career development long term.
- Private Medical Care (Self after 1 year)
- 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 weoffer 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.
