Lead Software Engineer

Overview:

Lead Software Engineer – Krakow – Hybrid or Remote Working Pattern 

We’re Kingfisher. You might know us as Castorama, B&Q, Screwfix, 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.

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.

Role Overview: 

As a Lead Software Engineer, you will lead on and advocate best in class architectural standards, engineering methodologies, as well as Kingfisher’s engineering principles. The ideal candidate will be proficient in React and JavaScript while also having some knowledge of Java and AWS.

Key Accountabilities / Responsibilities:

• Defining and implementing software architectural quality attributes, such as: performance, reliability, availability, scalability, supportability
• Providing 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.
• Continually reviewing projects and work, taking learnings from them to educate, coach and mentor peers.
• Creating and maintaining accurate technical documentation and leading the discussion of technical requirements with subject matter experts and end users (both technical and non-technical).

Required Skills & Experience

• Experience building serverless, cloud-native front-end applications
• Experience with React and JavaScript
• Some knowledge of backend (Java) would be a great asset
• Knowledge of AWS (Amazon Web Services) would be highly desirable
• 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