Senior Backend Developer

Were Kingfisher A team made up of over 82000 passionate people who bring Kingfisher and all our other brands: B&Q Screwfix Brico Depot Castorama and Koctas to life. Thats right were big but we have ambitions to become even bigger and even better. We want to become the leading home improvement company and grow the largest community of home improvers in the world. And thats where you come in.

At Kingfisher our customers come from all walks of life and so do we. We want to ensure that all colleagues future colleagues and applicants to Kingfisher are treated equally regardless of age gender marital or civil partnership status colour ethnic or national origin culture religious belief philosophical belief political opinion disability gender identity gender expression or sexual orientation.

We are open to flexible and agile working both of hours and location. Therefore we offer colleagues a blend of working from home and our offices located in London Southampton & Yeovil. Talk to us about how we can best support you!

We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer (backend python focus) to join our Group Data Science function to lead and trailblaze the development and building of software platforms. Working across our retail banners and group functions you will build platform roadmaps that will minimise time to value maximise long term effectiveness and ultimately help us achieve our commercial goals.

• Working with the wider Platform Engineering team to develop and maintain software platforms to
  achieve our commercial goals.
• Developing highquality software platforms for the Data Science team to achieve business
  challenges.
• Providing technical leadership and support for the junior members of the team.
• Working across retail banners and group functions to support building a platform roadmap that
  minimises time to value and maximises long term effectiveness.
• Supporting diverse teams in translating between business and data in the design of project work
  and in the synthesis and communication of recommendations and results.
• Collaborating with Tech Product and Data teams to develop the engineering platforms that allow
  us to apply and embed the use of data science directly in our products and processes.

• Excellent knowledge and experience in Django and Python backend
• Excellent understanding of computer science fundamentals and machine learning
• Proven experience of delivering several highquality software products and experience of productionisation
• Proven experience of developing cloudbased services using one or more cloud providers (preferably GCP)
• Strong management and leadership skills including the ability to build organise motivate mentor and manage a Platform Engineering team that supports a diverse range of initiatives
• Sensitivity and excellent influencing skills ability to work with stakeholders across a variety of functions and levels of seniority

Be Customer Focused constantly improving our customers experience

We listen to our customers and colleagues

We innovate products and experiences to stay ahead

Be Human leading with purpose humanity and care

We do the right thing

We invest in our people and build great teams

Be Curious thrive on learning thinking beyond the obvious

We focus externally globally and build the long term

We experiment and share our learnings

Be Agile building trust and empowering people to work with agility

We act with pace not perfection role modelling 80/20

We take risks fail fast and adapt quickly

Be Inclusive inspiring diverse teams to achieve together

We celebrate difference as a strength

We collaborate breaking down silos

Be Accountable owning the plan delivering results and growth

We focus on performance outcomes

We prioritise and simplify for others

At Kingfisher we value the perspectives that any new team members bring and we want to hear from you. We encourage you to apply for one of our roles even if you do not feel you meet 100 of the requirements.

In return we offer an inclusive environment where what you can achieve is limited only by your imagination! We encourage new ideas actively support experimentation and strive to build an environment where everyone can be their best self.

We also offer a competitive benefits package and plenty of opportunities to stretch and grow your career.

Interested Great apply now and help us to Power the Possible.

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