Senior Software Engineer

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About Us

We are Ocado Technology and we empower global grocery retailers with cutting-edge cloud, robotics, AI, and IoT. Our Ocado Smart Platform (OSP) powers highly automated Customer Fulfilment Centres (CFCs), enabling efficient, single-pick online grocery delivery

About the Role

The Platform Web Team has a vacancy for a senior TypeScript / javascript engineer, to help us drive our React.JS frontend and node.js backend to the next level.

The Platform Web team is within the Ecommerce Platform Department, armed with a mission to provide a world-class platform that enables feature teams in other Ecommerce departments to deliver value faster and with increased autonomy.

The team has a broad remit to focus on and enhance some of the most important areas for OSP’s customer-facing websites, with the aim of providing a solid, consistent, secure, performant foundation for our different channels to build upon. This includes maintaining shared code, implementing features that cut across all verticals, leading architectural efforts such as those to enable better platform scaling across other teams, and working with the rest of the chapter to establish additional goals and a close working relationship.

Working closely with the Web Architect, the team manages and drives the strategic direction of our core Ocado OSP front end React application, various shared JS libraries, a number of Node.JS based backend services, as well as key GraphQL & web routing services using Java Springboot, so any full-stack experience would be beneficial. The team is responsible for researching and implementing new approaches, making and improving the tools and frameworks that empower OSP engineers and development teams to work at scale, efficiently and independently towards common goals.

About you

• Strong frontend and backend TypeScript experience 
• Strong experience with React, NextJs or similar javascript frameworks
• Experience with nodejs, Expressjs
• Experience with client side state management such as redux and single page applications
• Experience working with RESTful services / Design best practice 
• Experience with automated testing and CI/CD best practices
• Experience of performance tuning, monitoring and supporting a live production system

What we offer

We believe in supporting our people with meaningful, flexible benefits that prioritise well-being and work-life balance. Here’s a snapshot of what you can expect:

• Time to recharge:
  25 days annual leave (rising to 27 after 5 years), plus the option to buy more – and 30 days a year to work from anywhere in the world.
  
  
• Health & wellbeing:
  Private Medical Insurance from your first month, wellbeing support through specialist apps and EAP, plus Income Protection and Life Assurance.
  
  
• Family-first policies:
  22 weeks paid maternity/primary carer leave and 6 weeks paid paternity leave (after qualifying period).
  
  
• Financial support:
  Pension with employer matching up to 7%, share schemes (Sharesave & BAYE), and interest-free loans for train tickets.
  
  
• Commuter perks:
  Cycle to Work Scheme and free shuttle buses to/from Hatfield and Welwyn Garden City stations.
  
  
• Exclusive discounts:
  15% off at Ocado.com with free delivery (starting in your first month).

Ocado Group is an equal opportunities employer and as such makes every effort to ensure that all potential employees are treated fairly and equally, regardless of their sex, sexual orientation, marital status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, age, or disability or union membership status.