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Senior Software Engineer – TypeScript / Node
£59,017 plus excellent benefits, including up to 10% employer pension contribution and private health care (Work Level 5)
UK Remote First
This is a UK remote first role, with an option to work in the Manchester office for those who want to. You may be asked to occasionally attend meetings in Manchester.

This role is eligible for Skilled Worker (Tier 2) visa sponsorship

Engineers play a huge part in our Digital Technology team at Co-op.

We are the makers. The people who design, build, and operate the products that support our members, customers, and colleagues. From Food to Funeralcare, Legal Services to Insurance, and everything in between. The systems we work on range from cloud-based services, through apps for customers and for colleagues, to tills in stores.

This role will be based within our Food Stores Unified Commerce Platform team, which is a set of data, events, and transactional APIs. Data is exposed via GraphQL serving apps such as Co-op e-commerce, Deliveroo and Amazon. Transactional logic is via a variety of REST APIs, such as a Promotion Engine, Basket, Checkout, Order, and Integration services. UCP also acts as the headless commerce engine for our next generation EPOS which is under development. This role would best suit applicants who have a good level of expertise building cloud based API services working with Node with Typescript.

We’re a historic organisation, founded on principals of mutuality and support for local communities. Our vision is to co-operate for a fairer world, and collaboration is part of who we are. We work in small, multi-disciplinary teams with an Agile approach, and we value knowledge sharing so we often use pair and ensemble-programming. We also provide career and technical coaching, and we run communities of practice to support continuous learning. To find out a little bit more about our engineering function, please visit jobs.coop.co.uk/engineering

What you’ll do

• work collaboratively to build, maintain, and support Co-op applications and systems
• have a hands-on focus on developing software iteratively
• make sure that our technical quality keeps up to our internal standards
• share your knowledge and skills with others in our Communities of Practice
• influence decisions at a team level, and communicate concepts to a wide range of technical and non-technical colleagues
• provide guidance, coaching and training to other engineers to support their development
• lead colleagues in smaller product teams as the software engineering subject matter expert
• resolve technical challenges, making sure that solutions fulfil overall business objectives

What you’ll get

• opportunities to learn, grow and build a career
• a co-operative team where you can always be your true self
• the ability to work flexibly and remotely, so you can achieve the right balance between work and your personal life
• pension with up to 10% employer contributions
• annual incentive scheme
• health and wellbeing incentives and rewards through the YuLife app
• Wagestream - a money management app that gives you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn it
• 28 days holiday (rising to 32 in line with service)
• discounts on Co-op products and services

This role would suit people who have

• significant experience in a hands-on software engineering role, implementing, and maintaining applications and services
• experience of delivering iteratively towards an end-goal
• solid programming expertise in Node with TypeScript on the back end
• experience with React with Typescript for the front end would be useful, but not essential for the initial role
• solid expertise working with hosting services such as Azure and AWS, we use Azure in the food teams
• experience of tooling and practices for automated build, integration, and deployment
• expertise in software patterns and practices, such as Object-Orientated or Functional programming
• a good understanding of architectural patterns and practices, and the ability to make trade-offs between design decisions
• experience and understanding of TDD (test driven development)
• a strong understanding of Agile methodologies and practices

Building an inclusive work environment

We’re actively building diverse teams and we welcome applications from everyone. We want to build inclusive work environments, where our colleagues have equal opportunities to reach their full potential. We celebrate our differences and recognise the importance of our teams reflecting the communities they serve.

If you have a disability, we can make reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process according to your needs. We’re also part of the Disability Confident scheme, meaning we’ll always offer an interview to disabled candidates who apply through the scheme if they meet the minimum criteria for a job.

We’ll ask whether you’d like to be considered under the Disability Confident scheme when you apply. If we invite you to take part in the recruitment process for any of our jobs, we’ll ask if you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to participate.

We welcome applications from candidates who need Skilled Worker (Tier 2) visas to work in the UK.

You can find out more about out recruitment process at jobs.coop.co.uk/apply-process.