Every week we move millions of products to our customers at record speeds. Brilliant customer experiences at this kind of pace, require fresh and appealing products to be available whenever and however our customers shop with us. And in this area of our business, we help to make sure that happens.

By engineering innovative, smart technology, we put the tools in our colleagues’ hands to power a global supply chain. Whether it’s wine from New Zealand or milk from the local dairy farm – our tech performs. We solve problems at scale. We process billions of records, predicting and planning to make our customers lives easier. We keep our warehouses and stores operating smoothly around the clock, because what’s important to our customers is important to us.

As a Senior Engineer, you’ll be working in a diverse, engaged and motivated team, you’ll facilitate collaboration on architectural and engineering decisions required for complex, real-world, mission critical systems. You’ll work closely with the Product Owner, Delivery Manager and Engineering Manager to create a lean backlog delivering business value in rapid iterations.

You’ll be passionate about code, software craft and the application of technology to solve real-world problems and make a valuable difference to people’s daily lives. You judge your success by the success of your team and the value you deliver. Whilst always striving for improvement, you take a pragmatic, experimental and lean approach to achieve great outcomes. You want to play a pivotal role helping to solve complex engineering problems in a diverse, dynamic organisation.

A strong background in at least one programming language and a broad appreciation of the disciplines and behaviours that make up successful, cross functional, high performing teams. Flexible, resilient and adaptable you will be able to guide decisions on when to build vs. when to integrate based on your many years of experience.

To complement your strength as an individual contributor you will also have the soft skills to be able to lead, motivate and support your fellow engineers and colleagues. More broadly we are looking for thought leadership, passion and advocacy to help support the continual improvement of engineering & development practice across Sainsbury’s Tech. Finally, we’d also like you to be yourself – unique, analytical, curious and unafraid to challenge the status quo.

More about the role

• Hands-on test-driven software development, you’ll take part in code reviews, provide technical guidance and mentorship to develop great engineering talent across and beyond our team
• You’ll work closely with all functions, including Engineering, Cloud, SDET, to continually ship features in a way that quality and autonomy are maintained or improved
• You’ll write well structured, beautiful, clean code
• You’ll contribute to our product technical roadmap
• Liaise with other teams to understand external dependencies, gain insight into the broader aims and goals within the Commercial domain to help shape our roadmap in line with our mission
• You’ll contribute towards the design and support of services and internal frameworks that enhance Sainsbury’s capabilities
• Engineering throughout the whole product lifecycle, including decommissioning

More about you 

• Be passionate about a programming language in one or more languages in our ecosystem
• Self-drive and constantly striving to improve your team and peers 
• Drive for advocacy of agile/lean delivery methodologies 
• A passion for delivering solutions to customers
• A passion for enhancing your knowledge and evidence curiosity in emerging tech 
• Display empathy and understanding in supporting colleagues in the team to deliver

As well as lots of on-the-job training and endless opportunities, you’ll get:

• Colleague discount across our multi-brands – Sainsbury’s, Argos and Habitat
• Holiday allowance
• Bonus scheme
• Pension plan
• Special offers on gym memberships, restaurants, holidays, retail vouchers and more

Work-life balance is important to us, so we offer our colleagues as much flexibility as possible in line with the needs of their role. We trust them to decide how, where and when they work, combining remote and collaborative working with a flexible approach to hours, giving them plenty of time and space for life outside of work whilst delivering against our business goals.