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Salary£62,558 plus great benefits (Work Level 5)
UK Remote First
This is a UK remote first role, with an option to work from our Manchester office for those who want to. You may be asked to occasionally attend meetings in Manchester (find out more about our hybrid working policy at colleagues.coop.co.uk/hybrid-working-policy).
Please be aware Co-op does not offer visa sponsorship for this opportunity
We’re open to applications from candidates who may require flexible working arrangements. There’ll be an opportunity to discuss your flexible working requirements during the interview process, and at offer stage.
Engineers play a huge part in our Digital Technology team at Co-op.
We are the makers. The people who design, build, and operate the products that support our members, customers, and colleagues. From Food to Funeralcare, Legal Services to Insurance, and everything in between. The systems we work on range from cloud-based services, through apps for customers and for colleagues, to tills in stores.
This role will be based within our Food Stores Operational Innovation team. This team’s main objective is to make our stores as simple as possible to operate for our colleagues so that they can focus on delivering the best experience possible for our customers and members. There’s some exciting developments planned within this area; including a new suite of web apps for smarter stock management and integration with our SAP ERP, and you could help us carry them out.
We’re a historic organisation, founded on principals of mutuality and support for local communities. Our vision is to co-operate for a fairer world, and collaboration is part of who we are. We work in small, multi-disciplinary teams with an Agile approach, and we value knowledge sharing, so we often use pair and ensemble-programming. We also provide career and technical coaching, and we run communities of practice to support continuous learning.
What you’ll do
- Work collaboratively to build, maintain, and support Co-op applications and systems
- Take a ‘hands-on’ approach to developing software iteratively and up to a high standard
- Lead your colleagues in smaller product teams from a Software Engineering perspective
- Share your knowledge and skills with your colleagues as part of our communities of practice sessions
- Coach, mentor, and support your colleagues in their development
- Resolve technical challenges, making sure that solutions fulfil our business objectives
This role would suit people who have
- Significant experience in a hands-on Software Engineering role; implementing and maintaining applications and services
- Experience of tooling and practices for automated build, integration, and deployment, as well as delivering iteratively towards and end-goal
- Experience with React/Typescript in the frontend and working with hosting services such as Azure
- A good understanding of TDD and strong programming expertise in C#
- Good coaching and mentoring skills, and the ability to support your colleagues in their development
Why Co-op?
If you’ve got the skills and experience we’re looking for, we can offer you a competitive salary and great benefits package which includes 30% off Co-op branded products in our food stores (as well as other discounts on Co-op products and services). You’ll also get:
- Private healthcare
- An annual bonus (based on personal and business performance)
- 28 days holiday (rising to 32 with service) plus bank holidays
- A pension with up to 10% employer contributions
- Access to a subsidised onsite gym (at our Manchester HQ)
- Coaching and training to support your learning and career development
- Wagestream – a money management app that gives you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn it
- YuLife – an app that rewards you for exercising with discounts and vouchers for your favourite brands
Building an inclusive work environment
At Co-op, we’re proud to do things a different way. As one of the world’s largest co-operatives, owned by millions of members, community is at the heart of what we do. Since our Co-op was founded in 1844, we’ve had a clear social purpose, and everything we do as a business helps to build a fairer world for our members, customers, colleagues, and communities.
We’re actively building diverse teams and we welcome applications from everyone. If you have a disability, we can make reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process according to your needs. We’re also part of the Disability Confident scheme, meaning we’ll always offer an interview to disabled candidates who apply through the scheme if they meet the minimum criteria for a job.
We’ll ask whether you’d like to be considered under the Disability Confident scheme when you apply.
If we invite you to take part in the recruitment process for any of our jobs, we’ll ask you if you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to participate.
You can find out more about our recruitment process at jobs.coop.co.uk/apply-process.
You can find out more about the Disability Confident scheme and all our commitments to diversity and inclusion at colleagues.coop.co.uk/diversity-inclusion-and-wellbeing.
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