Principal Engineer (12083) in London

Job Title: Principal Engineer

Job Type: Permanent

Location: London/ Remote

Hours: 37.5hrs

Salary: £Competitive + Company Benefits

It's a really exciting time to be at Holland & Barrett. Our IT, Technology and Digital teams are transforming our business beyond all recognition. This is where we create our industry leading digital solutions to satisfy our customer needs. We are investing across all areas of our business with a vision of empowering our customers to live happier, healthier lives. Our ambition is to become the leading player in global wellness chosen by millions as their trusted partner for personalised wellness journeys.

To achieve this goal, we are embarking on a radical transformation and a number of new, exciting tech roles are available.

The principal engineer will be a key member of the engineering vertical working across multiple squads

• Design and deliver enterprise software with quality, operating independently across teams.
• Lead design of software across the enterprise and work with the Product Manager, TPM, other development teams to deliver without much oversight.
• Implement performant software using documented algorithms and methods of software optimisation on functional team platform
• Code with languages that Holland and Barrett Tech utilises
• Lead on the various features being built as part of the product roadmap across the teams
• Own cross-teams infrastructure and projects architecture
• Understand and evangelise the implications and trade-offs of reliability, scalability, adoption, operational costs, recruiting.
• Have deep technical expertise in business-critical areas
• Work in close collaboration with the technical leadership to select new technologies.
• Undertake deep research for evaluating options for delivering solutions
• Promote culture, champion processes and setting standards for fellow engineering team members.
• Build and review engineering design documentation.
• Identify risks ahead of major project kick offs starting

With regards to your technical expertise, you must be able to demonstrate:

• A Degree or equivalent exposure to programming
• Strong Development background in one or more of the following: Java, Kotlin, Python.
• Strong experience developing and working in a virtualized environment.
• Strong experience using container based APIs including Docker, Docker Swarm, or Kubernetes.
• Strong Experience implementing scalable software systems and platforms.
• Experience with unit and integration testing
• Experience in building microservices : APIs, event-driven with a choice of SQL or NoSQL data store
• Agile/scrum development experience. Embraces Agile and encourages other to embrace and agile way of working
• Demonstrated mastery and expertise of 3 or more domains of retail technology (i.e; inventory management, UX development, performance testing, data integrity)
• Experience with DevOps concepts & working on CI/CD
• Strong experience with functional programming
• Experience in building reliable, monitored and maintainable systems
• Experience with cloud computing, ideally AWS
• Strong collaboration and communication skills within distributed project teams.
• Ability to solve problems and think across different scales from the strategic right down to the code optimization and debugging level
• Ability to separate essential complexity from incidental complexity and a desire to reduce complexity

We offer a flexible, home-based working model. We have offices in Nuneaton and London, but you will not be required to be office-based.

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Holland & Barrett is one of the nation's most loved and trusted brands, known for offering quality health food, vitamins and supplements all sold by highly trained and qualified advisors.

Bucking the current trend of high street retailers, we forecast significant growth and expansion plans in the coming years, with considerable investment going into all areas of the business. We certainly embrace change and drive speed in everything we do. Every day presents a different challenge, but every day is also filled with fun, teamwork and passion to succeed and surpass every expectation.

Join us and see how far you can go…