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Tech Lead

Posted 26 Mar 2024
Work experience
3 to 6 years
Full-time / part-time
Full-time
Job function
Degree level
Required language
English (Fluent)

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We’re Kingfisher. You might know us as B&Q, Screwfix, Castorama, Brico Depot or Koçtaş. We’re made up of over 78,000 passionate people, call over 1,300 stores home and operate in 8 countries. That’s right, we’re big, 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. And that’s where you come in. As a Kingfisher Tech Lead in our Findability team, you will be an integral part of our business, working closely not only with the rest of the team but also with key stakeholders, Engineers and other areas of the business. You will lead from the front and are sought-after for technical guidance from across our teams. You have a track record of anticipating technical problems early during the development and finding solutions to overcome them before we encounter challenges in production. Over time you will gain a depth of knowledge in the major components of our technology stack and hold technical ownership of the components you are responsible for. At Kingfisher our customers come from all walks 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, gender expression or sexual orientation.

We advocate the benefits of a flexible and hybrid working environment, recognising that this means different things, to different people, in different roles. Want to apply as a job share, or propose a way of working that isn’t the traditional 9am – 5.30pm, Monday through to Friday? We’re all ears!

As a Technical Lead you will lead on and advocate best in class architectural standards, engineering methodologies, as well as Kingfisher’s engineering principles. Defining and implementing software architectural quality attributes, such as: performance, reliability, availability, scalability, supportability. You will provide recommendations on application designs, analysing design specifications and validating them with the development teams and collaborate and produce clear direction to the development teams on the implementation of new systems and features. Ensuring that detailed application designs support Kingfisher’s technological strategy. Working alongside our Infrastructure teams to help drive our infrastructure designs, whilst guiding the development teams to ensure they release frequently and automatically through pre-production to production. You will be continually reviewing projects and work, taking learnings from them to educate, coach and mentor peers. You will also create and maintain accurate technical documentation and lead the discussion of technical requirements with subject matter experts and end users (both technical and non-technical).

  • Experience building event-driven architectures
  • Experience producing technical designs with consideration for scalability & security
  • Understanding and practical application of design patterns and principles
  • Practical experience writing high quality tests (unit/integration/e2e)
  • Experience of coordinating complex deployments and programme migrations
  • Understanding of Agile methodologies & experience working closely with product teams
  • Experience of working in an objective-driven environment.

Tech Stack:

  • React
  • Redux
  • Redux Saga
  • Typescript
  • Git
  • Gitlab
  • Webpacker
  • Docker
  • PostCSS
  • MongoDB
  • Node
  • Express

In return you'll get....

  • Modern, spacious office
  • Supportive and welcoming Tech team
  • Plenty of career growth options
  • Rather lovely canteen and coffee shop
  • Free parking onsite
  • Generous bonus scheme, healthcare and pension contribution options
  • Instore/online discount (B&Q, Screwfix and other Kingfisher brands)

Kingfisher plc is a home improvement company with over 1,300 stores in 10 countries across Europe, Russia and Turkey supported by a team of 77,300 colleagues. We operate under four retail brands - B&Q, Castorama, Brico Dépôt and Screwfix.

Retail
London
5,000 employees