Lead Software Engineer
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Lead Software Engineer
(Hybrid)
Were Kingfisher a team made up of over 82000 passionate people who bring Kingfisher and all our other brands: Castorama B&Q Screwfix Brico Dpt and Kota 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. Therefore we offer colleagues a blend of working from home and our office located in Krakw. Talk to us about how we can best support you!
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. Interested Great apply now and help us to Power the Possible.
We offer a competitive benefit package and plenty of opportunities to stretch and grow your career:
- Private medical healthcare at LUXMED (including dentalcare) for you and your family
- Medicover sports card (Fit&More package)
- Life insurance financed by the employer
- 30minute lunch break included in the 8hour working day
- Work in a highly professional and stimulating atmosphere
- Training & Buddy programme that will allow you to quickly adapt to your new role
- Wellbeing programme for employees
- Cofinancing of monthly tickets for the public transport in Krakow
- Comfortable working environment in the office and the possibility of home office
- Language courses accounting courses access to LinkedIn Learning and the possibility of cofinancing studies and certification
- Employee referral programme
Whats the job
About the role
As a Lead Software Engineer within our frontend domain you will play a pivotal role as both an expert individual contributor and a technical multiplier. You will be responsible for guiding your squad through complex and often ambiguous challenges ensuring the delivery of highquality scalable solutions that align with longterm business goals.
You will provide technical leadership coach and mentor engineers and drive engineering excellence across the team. Working closely with Engineering Leads Principal Engineers and Architects youll shape technical direction influence strategic decisions and foster a strong culture of collaboration innovation and continuous improvement. With a passion for frontend technologies and a holistic mindset you will help elevate both the technical capabilities and the impact of your squad.
Responsibilities
- Provide daytoday technical guidance ensuring the team is aligned on priorities technical approaches and best practices to meet business goals.
- Foster a culture of growth by mentoring engineers facilitating skill development and offering constructive feedback to support their career progression.
- Take ownership of complex frontend solutions ensuring they are scalable maintainable and performant while meeting both short and longterm objectives.
- Collaborate effectively with crossfunctional teams including backend engineers product managers and designers to define and execute on product vision.
- Contribute to shaping the technical direction of frontend architecture influencing product and technical roadmaps and supporting the team in navigating evolving business needs.
- Champion high standards of code quality testing and deployment processes to ensure reliability and consistency across frontend systems.
- Identify opportunities for process and technical improvements proactively leading efforts to enhance the development lifecycle productivity and product quality.
- Maintain strong relationships with internal stakeholders facilitating effective communication and ensuring technical needs and progress are clearly communicated.
What youll bring
Skills and Experience
- Proven ability to design and deliver robust highquality solutions across multiple programming languages and frameworks.
- Deep expertise in frontend technologies including TypeScript HTML CSS.
- Extensive experience with modern frontend frameworks such as and Remix.
- Strong knowledge of web architecture DNS and web server technologies.
- Handson experience working with RESTful APIs JSON and GraphQL.
- Knowledge of frontend testing tools and frameworks including Playwright and Jest.
- Skilled in building and maintaining scalable CI/CD pipelines.
- Wellversed in accessibility standards (WCAG) and user experience best practices.
- Demonstrates a strong grasp of software and quality engineering principles and nonfunctional requirements.
- Exceptional problemsolving capabilities and the ability to lead the implementation of complex solutions.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills with the ability to influence technical discussions and strategic decisions.
- Comfortable operating with autonomy and accountability in a dynamic fastpaced environment.
- Excellent command of English (written and spoken)
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