Job description
Holland & Barrett International is striving to be the world's leading health and wellness business. Currently the largest in Europe and growing in other markets, the health and wellness of our colleagues and customers is at our heart.
We're on a mission to make health and wellness a way of life for everyone – and technology is at the heart of our future plans to become a leading omni-channel retailer. We're building some great products, and we're investing in the rapidly advancing technology that is helping our customers meet their health and wellness goals. We're delivering more speed in the retail experience, greater convenience in service and delivery, and increasing personalization in our brand and product propositions, both in-store and online.
We are hiring a Software Engineer to join our Supply Chain department, within our Inventory Management Squad. This squad is central to the Supply Chain transformation the company is undertaking, critical in providing the real-time view of where our stock is and facilitating the movement of inventory so that the right products are in the right location at the right time.
- Collaborate with the team to implement new features and enhancements to our internal systems, improving processes from purchasing to supplier.
- Contribute to the ongoing development of our bespoke tools, suggesting improvements for better functionality.
- Analyze requirements, question and refine them until satisfied, and actively participate in the development process.
- Stay updated with new technologies, bringing passion to the role and identifying opportunities for growth and improvement.
- Contribute to the development of our code base and share learnings with the wider team.
- Engineer and implement automated processes to eliminate manual steps and improve company-wide performance.
- Act as a vocal and constructive leader, adapting to the changing needs of our growing organization.
- Embrace a culture of best practice sharing, self-development, and collaboration to foster individual and team growth.
- Collaborate with the wider development community in the team to implement microservice architecture.
- Utilize Test-Driven Development (TDD) and peer review in a Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) culture, supporting iterative development cycles and evolutionary design.
- Apply modern patterns of software development for functionality and scalability.
- Experience working with Java, staying up to date with the latest versions.
- Proficiency in Spring Boot for building applications.
- Proven experience with unity and integration testing, working with microservices and APIs.
- Familiarity with Event-Driven architecture, preferably using Kafka.
- Strong understanding of RESTful services and APIs.
- Solid technical skills and problem-solving abilities.
- Sound knowledge of Structured Query Language (SQL) and the Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) API.
- Pension company contribution = 3%
- Incentive scheme up to 10% of annual salary, based on company performance.
- Your wellbeing is paramount so you can get away and take 28 Days Holiday per year.
- Learning and Development opportunity with Holland & Barrett is a great base for career development long term.
- Career progression.
- Refer and Earn Scheme - as we're growing you can earn money by referring people to join us from your network.
- Epic Extras gives you access to exclusive benefits, free advice and savings from a range of retailers and providers.
- Stay healthy with Discounted Products - from day one you'll get a 25% discount (on top of other promotions) when you shop at H&B on anything that you buy.
- We all need a little help sometimes, so we offer Free 24/7 Confidential Advice & Colleague Welfare.
- Mental Health First Aiders - we have lots of qualified Mental Health First Aiders because its all about your health & wellbeing.
- Stay active in the Onsite Gym at our Nuneaton Hub!
- We have colleague Reward and Recognition Schemes, so your hard work and loyalty won't go unnoticed.
- And many more!
- Division:Technology
- City:London
- Country:UK
- Job Type:Full Time
- Number of Hours:37.5
- Contract Type:Permanent
About Holland & Barrett
CEO: Alex Gourlay
Revenue: Unknown / Non-Applicable
Size: 1001 to 5000 Employees
Type: Subsidiary or Business Segment
Website: https://www.hollandandbarrettjobs.com/jobs/
Year Founded: 1870