Software Engineer
Job Location:
Southampton - UK
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Job Summary
Overview
Were Kingfisher A team made up of over 74000 passionate people who bring Kingfisher - and all our other brands: B&Q Screwfix Brico Depot Castorama and Koctas to life. Guided by our purpose Better Homes. Better Lives. For Everyone. We believe a better world starts with better homes and we work every day to make that a reality. Join us and help shape the future of home improvement.
We are entering an exciting period of transformation and are looking for a highly motivated and experienced Software Engineer (Backend/Fullstack) to join our Digital Colleague team. This team builds and maintains the handheld application used daily in our stores for order picking ad hoc stock counting and a wide range of operational tasks. It is a business-critical product with 24/7 availability used across multiple locations and essential for smooth store operations.
As a Software Engineer you will work closely with your cross functional teammates to design build and enhance features for a high impact application used by thousands of colleagues. You will bring technical ability fresh ideas and a proactive mindset to help us evolve our platform and deliver reliable scalable solutions.
If youre looking for a role where you can step out of your comfort zone work on a mission critical product and make a real impact on how our stores operate every day this opportunity is for you.
Whats the job
- Design develop andmaintain highquality backend and servicelayer solutions for the handheld application
- Collaborate with product engineering and storeoperations stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver valuable features
- Participate in code design and test reviews to ensure quality maintainability and performance
- Apply DevOps practices for continuous integration automated testing and deployment
- Integrate the application with monitoring and alerting tools to ensure reliability in a 24/7 environment
- Contribute to Agile ceremonies and help refine team processes
- Use datadriven approaches tovalidate assumptions and iterate on product features
- Troubleshoot issues across the development lifecycle and support ongoing improvements
What youll bring
Skills & Experience
- JavaScript and
- or another modern frontend framework
- REST APIs and service-oriented architecture
- AWS and cloud-native development
- Automated testing and CI/CD practices
- Software engineering best practices including version control and code quality
- Agile delivery and cross-functional collaboration
Nice to Have
- Cypress or Playwright
- GitLab CI/CD
- Distributed systems or microservices architecture
- Monitoring observability and alerting tools
How We Work
We believe in flexibility and balance. Our hybrid model blends home working for focus with time spent connecting and collaborating - whether in our offices or at offsite locations. On average around 20% of your time will involve in-person collaboration.
We value the perspectives new team members bring and encourage you to apply - even if youdontmeet 100% of the requirements.
What We Offer
An inclusive environment where your potential is limited only by your imagination. We encouragenew ideas support experimentation and strive to create a workplace where everyone can be their best self. Find out more about Diversity & Inclusion at Kingfisherhere.
We also offer a competitive benefits package and plenty of opportunities to stretch and grow your career. Scroll down below to find out more about our benefits.
Diversity & Inclusion
Our customers come from all walks of life - and so do we. Were committed to ensuring all colleagues future colleagues and applicants are treated equally regardless of age gender marital or civil partnership status ethnicity culture religion belief political opinion disability gender identity gender expression or sexual orientation.
Interested Great apply now and help us to Power the Possible.
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Required Experience:
IC
About Company
Kingfisher plc is an international home improvement company with over 1,360 stores in nine countries across Europe. We operate under retail banners including B&Q, Castorama, Brico Dépôt, Screwfix, Tradepoint and Koçtaş, supported by a team of 77,000 colleagues
