Back End Web Developer Liverpool, England
Job description
Home Bargains is the 20th largest privately owned company in the UK, with 580 stores and a £3 billion annual turnover. This means we don’t answer to faceless shareholders, so we can invest big in our long-term future.
More than just a discount retailer, at our heart we are a technology and innovation company. Doing things smarter and more efficiently – but also differently to our competitors – has played a large part in our success to date.
Technology sits at the core of how we drive efficiency across the business so we can sell things to customers at incredible prices. We have a culture of moving fast and operating at huge scale, meaning we ship software daily and scale it to support the 7 million customers who shop with us each week.
Our Digital team plays a crucial role in increasing sales, reducing costs, boosting efficiency, and allowing Home Bargains to remain competitive in the retail sector for years to come. To help realise these ambitions, we are on the lookout for top Back-End Developer talent to join our expanding Digital team.
As a Back-End Developer you will work either remotely or in our Liverpool office, alongside our Business Analysists, other Back-End Developers, Front End Developers and Product Teams to build incredibly efficient, scalable applications using best in class modern techniques and cutting-edge technologies that operate at a huge scale.
We’re never satisfied with the status quo and truly believe that using the most modern stack and tooling is what enables us to build fast and evolving systems.
Job Overview- Write high quality code running stateless, distributed applications that you’re proud of, in a DevOps environment
- Design technical solutions to complex problems
- Develop applications to user requirements
- Test and validate work
- Identify issues
- Collaborate with team members
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of internal systems and practices
The successful candidate must have:
- Computer science degree or equivalent qualification
- 5+ years of relevant experience
- A proven ability to build applications for broad consumer audiences
- Portfolio of work
And will have experience with some of the following:
- Javascript / Typescript / Node JS
- Go
- Relational databases (SQL)
- NoSQL / DynamoDB database design
- AWS services
- Event driven architectures
- Working in CI / CD environments
- Git / Version control
- Microservices
- Kubernetes
TJ Morris Limited trading as Home Bargains is a privately owned family run discount retailer selling top brands at the lowest possible price on the UK high street.
Having started 45 years ago in Liverpool our customers continue to be at the heart of everything we do and throughout our 580 stores we have over 5 million customers each week.
With plans to increase our store portfolio to 1,000 stores throughout the UK we are a fast-paced retailer opening 50 stores a year (nearly one every weekend) - and we wouldn't have it any other way!
Package- Up to £52,750 per annum
- 37.50 hours per week
- Remote/hybrid working or Liverpool Head Office based available
- 5.6 weeks paid holiday per year including bank and public holiday allowance rising to 6.6 weeks upon 5 years' service
- Contributable Company pension scheme
Employee benefits:
- MyHB employee benefits platform with access to:
- Retail and leisure discounts plus hundreds more
- Free Financial Advice
- Bank your savings into an ISA
- 24/7 confidential counselling and advice line
- Low cost voluntary insured health plans
- Onsite subsidised Health and Fitness Centre
- Onsite canteen
- 10% store discount
- Access to social and sporting events
- Free car parking
