What are the responsibilities and job description for the MID Software Engineer / Senior Software Engineer (Front-end) position at Kingfisher?
Overview
MID Software Engineer / Senior Software Engineer Front-end
(hybrid)
Who we are and what we create?
We’re Kingfisher, a team made up of over 82,000 passionate people who bring Kingfisher - and all our other brands: Castorama, B&Q, Screwfix, Brico Dépôt and Koçtaş - to life. That’s right, we’re big, but we have ambitions to become even bigger and even better. We want to become the leading home improvement company and grow the largest community of home improvers in the world. And that’s where you come in.
At Kingfisher, our customers come from all walks of life, and so do we. We want to ensure that all colleagues, future colleagues, and applicants to Kingfisher are treated equally regardless of age, gender, marital or civil partnership status, colour, ethnic or national origin, culture, religious belief, philosophical belief, political opinion, disability, gender identity, gender expression or sexual orientation.
We are open to flexible and agile working. Therefore, we offer colleagues a blend of working from home and our office, located in Kraków. Talk to us about how we can best support you!
At Kingfisher, we value the perspectives that any new team members bring, and we want to hear from you. We encourage you to apply for one of our roles, even if you do not feel you meet 100% of the requirements.
In return, we offer an inclusive environment, where what you can achieve is limited only by your imagination! We encourage new ideas, actively support experimentation, and strive to build an environment where everyone can be their best self.
We also offer a competitive benefit package and plenty of opportunities to stretch and grow your career:
- Private medical healthcare at LUXMED (including dentalcare) for you and your family
- Medicover sports card (Fit&More package)
- Life insurance financed by the employer
- 30-minute lunch break included in the 8-hour working day
- Work in a highly professional and stimulating atmosphere
- Training & Buddy programme that will allow you to quickly adapt to your new role
- Wellbeing programme for employees
- Co-financing of monthly tickets for the public transport in Krakow
- Comfortable working environment in the office and the possibility of home office
- Language courses, accounting courses, access to LinkedIn Learning and the possibility of co-financing studies and certification
- Employee referral programme
What's the job?
About the role We are going through and exciting period of change and are seeking a highly motivated and experienced MID/Senior Engineer (Front-end) to join our Software Engineering team. You will work as part of our exciting greenfield tech hub covering all facets of technology.
As a MID/Senior Software Engineer, you will work closely with your cross functional team to design and implement new features and products, whilst bringing ideas, energy, and leadership to the table.
If you're looking for an exciting opportunity to step out of your comfort zone and make a real impact building better software, this is the job for you!
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, and deploy high quality software that will delight our customers
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to analyse user requirements and translate them into testable features.
- Integrate software with monitoring, observability, and support tools
- Implement design patterns to ensure robust and scalable code
- Use GitLab to manage source code, version control, and collaborative development
- Write and maintain unit tests to ensure code quality and reliability
- Continuously research and stay up to date with new development trends and technologies
- Develop and maintain technical documentation and user manuals for the applications
What you'll bring
Skills and Experience
- Experience working with modern JavaScript frameworks and libraries (e.g., React or Vue)
- Advanced mastery of technologies and frameworks like TypeScript, React, Node.js, ES6
- Strong grasp of HTML and CSS & creating maintainable and scalable component libraries
- Skilled in designing and developing RESTful APIs and exposure to graphQL Federation
- Experience with microservices and event driven architectures
- Experience working with cloud-based solutions
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Git/Gitlab/GitHub), and source control systems
- Good understanding of RESTful services (JSON) and API Design
- Experience of mentoring and coaching other software engineers
- Excellent command of English (written and spoken)