Lead Software Engineer (Frontend)

Lead Software Engineer(Frontend)

(Hybrid/Kraków 1 day per week in the office)

WereKingfisher a team made up of over74000 passionate people who bring Kingfisher - and all our other brands: Castorama B&Q Screwfix BricoDépôtandKoçtaş- to life.Thatsrightwerebig 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. Andthatswhere you come in.

At Kingfisher our customers come from allwalks 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 genderexpressionor sexual orientation.

We are open to flexible and agile working. Therefore we offer colleagues a blend of working from home and our officelocatedin Kraków. 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 encouragenew ideas actively support experimentation and strive to build an environment where everyone can be their best self.

We offer a competitive benefit package and plenty of opportunities to stretch and grow your career:

• 25000 - 33000 PLN gross per month on an employment contract
• Private medical healthcare at LUXMED (including dentalcare) for you and your family

• Medicoversports card (Fit&Morepackage)

• Life insurance financed by the employer

• 30-minute lunch break included in the 8-hour 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

• Co-financing 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 co-financing studies and certification

• Employee referral programme

About the role

As a Lead Software Engineer you will provide technical leadership while contributing hands-on. You will guide the squad through complex challenges deliver scalable high-quality solutions aligned with business goals and mentor engineers.

Working closely with Engineering Leads and Principal Engineers you will shape technical direction support strategic decisions and foster a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement with a strong focus on frontend excellence.

Responsibilities

• Provideday-to-day 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 engineersfacilitatingskill 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 long-termobjectives.

• Collaborate effectively with cross-functional 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.

• Championhigh standardsof code quality testing and deployment processes to ensure reliability and consistency across frontend systems.

• Identifyopportunities for process and technical improvements proactively leading efforts to enhance the development lifecycle productivity and product quality.

• Maintain strong relationships with internal stakeholdersfacilitatingeffective communication and ensuring technical needs and progress are clearly communicated.

• Proven ability to design implement and deliverhigh-quality software in TypeScript and JavaScript with focus on maintainability scalability and performance

• Deepexpertisein modern frontend development with React and including SSR state management and performance optimisation

• Strong command of SCSS and CSS Modules building modular scalable and accessible UI architectures

• Experience working inmonorepoenvironments withNx including build optimisation dependency management and architectural boundaries

• Advanced knowledge of frontend and integration testing using Jest Testing Library and MSW

• Strong understanding of observability and monitoring using Datadog RUM andOpenTelemetry

• Proficiencyin backend and integration development with and Express

• Strong grasp of software engineering best practices quality engineering and non-functional requirements

• Exceptional problem-solving skills in designing complex cross-cutting technical solutions

• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills including mentoring and influencing architectural decisions

• Excellent command of English (written and spoken)