Lead Software Engineer Retail Technology

Internal use only - Grade D

About us.

Were the team behind digital retailer Very.

Our purpose helping families get more out of life powers everything we do.

And we want our people to get more out of life too! If youre high-performing ambitious and make the most of every opportunity we want to hear from return youll enjoy heaps of flexibility great perks and benefits and the freedom to be yourself keep learning and take your career wherever you want it to go.

If you love making a difference youll love making it sparkle for millions of Very customers.

About the Teams

Our software engineering teams are responsible for designing building integrating and managing technology across all products and functions. They focus on developing secure highly available cloud-based solutions utilising open-source technologies where appropriate. By employing APIs as a standard for integration they facilitate robust communication between internal and external systems. Our teams adopt data and event-driven approaches working iteratively and continuously to deliver high-quality solutions.

This role sits within our Retail Technology team they own the creation and maintenance of our product catalogue and the prices we sell products at. We set pricing strategy including when to run offers and which types of promotions to use. We manage product set-up end to end on-site copy categorisation and navigation to help customers find products easily.

We also manage supplier contracts stock planning and forecasting to ensure timely replenishment. The Retail team are looking to leverage AI capability to improve our price decisioning process to improve our margin as an organisation and better value for our customers. Along side this we want to create more bespoke product copy and attribution so customers can find the products they want more easily. The roles will be linked to new squads being set up to deliver these initiatives and maintain run and enhance them going forward.

Role Purpose

The Lead Engineer is a key role within a Software or Data Engineering sub-community providing technical leadership and guidance to Engineers across all squads working with them to deliver and maintain production ready secure stable and performant code in line with TVG Engineering standards in a DevSecOps manner.

They lead by example and play an active part of software design coding reviews testing and debugging.

They are at the forefront of solving challenging technical problems and are responsible for software engineering excellence innovation and continuous improvement within the sub-community across all squads they work with.

Scope of Role

Leadership:

• Technical mentor and coach to Software/Data Engineers empowering them to excel in their roles and grow their skills.

• Champions the adoption of relevant standards such as TVGs SDLC development of re-usable components and generation of technical product roadmaps in collaboration with Engineering Managers and Architects.

• Plays an active role in maintaining a high performing software engineering team and contributes to a positive and inclusive culture where collaboration open communication and knowledge sharing are the norm and highly valued.

• Play a leading role in the Software technology selection for the squads they work with.

• The role is one of a technical expert and leader rather than people manager and may involve task management at times.

Nature and Area of impact:

• The Lead Engineer works with peers in other sub-communities and other Technology leaders to advance TVGs Tech landscape in a manner that is aligned across the Community and is aligned to current standards and policies.
• Responsible for ensuring technology is right sized and pro-actively identifying cost optimisation opportunities.

About you

• Significant experience of delivery of software solutions in squads operating in a lean agile DevSecOps based environment in a senior or leadership role.

• Proficiency in multiple programming languages frameworks and modern software engineering tooling.

• Demonstrable experience of providing clear technology leadership direction and decision making for a whole team.

• Experience of building integrating maintaining and managing complex software architectures (both build and bought) ideally across multi-cloud environments.

• Experience of building software applications that have security reliability scalability high availability and concurrency built-in from the outset.

• A strong collaborator communicator and decision maker.

• Confident and comfortable to share stories internally and externally to build our Very Group brand and credibility to attract and retain talent.

Some of our benefits

• Flexible hybrid working model
• Inclusive culture and environment

• 6500 flexible benefits allowance to suit your needs
• 30days holiday bank holidays
• Udemy learning access
• Up to 25% discount on

• Matched pension up to 6%
• More benefits can be foundon our career site

How to apply

Please note that the talent acquisition team are managing this vacancy directly and if successful in securing this role you will be required to undertake a credit CIFAS Right to Work checks and if a specific requirement of your role a DBS (criminal records) check. Should your application progress we require you to let the team know if there is anything you need to disclose in relation to any of these checks prior to them being undertaken including any unspent criminal convictions.

What happens next

Our Talent Acquisition team will be in touch if youre successful so keep an eye on your emails! Well arrange a short call to learn more about you as well as answer any questions you have.

For this role after meeting our Talent Acquisition Team you can expect a 1 stage process.

First Stage - Behavioural and Technical Interview this interview focuses on your technical and softer skills how you like to work as part of a Software Engineering Team (60 minutes onsite)

If youd like to know more about our interviews you can find out here.

Diversity inclusion and equal opportunities

Werebuilding a culture of everyday inclusion and welcome applications from anyone who believes they can do the job. We dont discriminate based on age disability gender reassignment marriage or civil partnership pregnancy or maternity race religion or belief sex or sexual orientation.

We want our recruitment process to be accessible to everyone. If you need reasonable adjustments to apply interview or perform a role let us know via Well be happy to support you.

Were proud to be a Disability Confident Committed Employer and have nine brilliant colleague networks - including DAWN (Disability Awareness at Very) and Think (Neurodiversity at Very) - that are helping us make Very an even more inclusive place to work.

Required Experience:

IC