Lead Full Stack Developer MVC | Cloud
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3 days ago
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1 Vacancy
Job Summary
The Role:
While youll have heard our name theres a lot you probably dont know about NEXT. Like how we create most of our systems ourselves whether its a website mobile app or application. Whats more were growing. Fast. And its the kind of growth and investment that is exciting for everyone in our business.
Our eCommerce websites and apps have grown steadily over the past 10 years to become one of the largest online retail platforms in the UK. We currently sell to 70 international markets offering our 6 million active customers a personalised shopping experience and the ability to purchase from a wide range of products using multiple delivery methods and payment types.
What Youll Take On:
As a Lead Developer you will be working in an agile team and working alongside other Developers to lead and build upon our quality centric eCommerce platform. You will be responsible for developing the user interface of our website platform and will have the opportunity to design architecture and select tools to improve our skill set and improve our platform in line with the future road map. The enterprise platform is currently used to drive numerous sites serving millions of users worldwide.
As a passionate developer with a keen mindset to improve youll enjoy working as part of a team. Comfortable with modern technologies and tooling youll use best practices to improve the user experience and efficiency of development teams. You will help provide development support to internal users of our Content Management System as well as offering out-of-hours cover during seasonal events and busy trading periods. Youll also use your expertise and experience to help us continually improve our processes and working practices actively enabling the department to become as efficient and effective as it can be.
What Youll Bring:
Essential
- Proven expertise in MVC architecture and frameworks (e.g. Spring MVC MVC (C#) or similar) with solid understanding of design patterns and scalable application architecture
- Strong full-stack development experience across front-end (HTML5 CSS3 JavaScript/TypeScript modern JS frameworks) and back-end (Java C# or equivalent) technologies
- Deep understanding of cloud-based solutions and deployment ideally with Azure including CI/CD pipelines and containerization (Docker/Kubernetes)
- Demonstrated experience developing and optimizing high-performance large-scale applications
- Strong programming experience in Java JSON JavaScript and Freemarker Templates (or equivalent templating technologies)
- Knowledge and practice of UI performance optimization responsive design and cross-browser compatibility
- Commitment to writing clean maintainable modular and testable code following best practices and modern engineering principles
- Proven ability to mentor and lead developer in the team review code effectively and guide technical decisions
- Excellent problem-solving analytical and debugging skills
- Comfortable collaborating closely with Product Owners Designers and Stakeholders to turn business requirements into high-quality technical solutions
Desirable
- Understanding of web accessibility standards (WCAG) usability and responsive UI/UX design principles
- Track record in developing deploying and maintaining cloud-native applications.
- Experience in Agile/Scrum environments contributing to sprint planning reviews and retrospectives
- Familiarity with DevOps practices automated testing and monitoring tools
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Required Experience:
IC
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About Company
You know Next, but did you know we’re a FTSE-100 retail company employing over 35,000 people across the UK and Ireland. We’re the UK’s 2nd largest fashion retailer and for Kidswear we’re the market leader. At the last count we have over 500 stores, plus the Next Online and it’s now po ... View more
