Associate Engineer - Java London, England
Job description
C3 Associate Engineer (Java) – Colleague & Operations
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.
Joining us means you'll be one of our amazing digital innovators contributing to a technology ecosystem that will help us meet the opportunities of the future. You should focus on delivering the right thing the right way, collaborating with other colleagues to make it happen. Learning is constant and delighting our customers should be your goal.
As an Associate Engineer (Java), you’ll join one of our Engineering teams, creating great products by interpreting and following best practice architectural and engineering principles, operating frameworks, and new and improved tech applications and solutions. Using Java (8+) with tools and frameworks like Spring Boot, Hibernate, Maven and Apache Kafka, you’ll contribute towards the design and development of large-scale, high performance services, microservices and event driven architecture.
You’ll be passionate about one or more of the programming languages in our ecosystem, such as ReactJS, Swift/iOS, Android, Kotlin, Java/Springboot and Golang, and with your technical craft, curiosity and experimentation, you’ll use judgement to apply specific techniques to deliver focused outcomes that support our customers.
We’d also like you to be yourself – analytical, curious and unafraid to learn new skills or challenge the status quo. You’ll constantly strive to improve the way things are done in your team, contributing as a progressive member of the engineering community.
More about the role:
You’ll be part of the design and development of large-scale high performance services using Java (8+) with tools and frameworks like Spring Boot, Hibernate and Maven. This includes websites, apps, microservices and event driven architecture
You’ll contribute to our product technical roadmap
You’ll work with cloud and container technologies such as Kubernetes on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform
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, such as ReactJS, Swift/iOS, Android, Kotlin, Java/Springboot and Golang
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
