Job Description

Posting End Date: September 4, 2023

Join John Lewis or Waitrose today

If you\'ve ever stepped through the doors of a John Lewis or Waitrose shop, shopped online, or seen any of our adverts, you\'ll know there\'s something unique about us.

That unique proposition is our Partners. As co-owners they have a say in our business and receive a share of the profits, so they put time and effort into making it work. Our Partners are the reason we\'re the success we are. They\'re our secret sauce; the opportunity for us to differentiate.

Job Summary:

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At a glance:

Flexible Working: This is a hybrid working role, therefore your time will be split between working from home and the London or Bracknell Head Office. This is determined by the needs of your team and may mean that you do not come into the office for weeks or months at a time unless you choose to. If you choose to work remotely, you should be aware that you will need to come into the office.

Salary range: \xc2\xa355,800 - \xc2\xa390,000

Contract type: Permanent

About the role:

The Partnership is the UK\xe2\x80\x99s most successful omni-channel retailer which includes two of the UKs most loved department store and grocery brands with annual sales revenues in excess of \xc2\xa312B. The Partnership also includes a rapidly growing Financial Services business, with growth of 22% in 2022/23.

Our Engineering practice includes 60+ teams, working on everything from Cloud Platforms to Mobile Apps, from E-Commerce functionality to Machine Learning.

Our Engineers work collaboratively and share knowledge, and learning is extremely important to us. We support our Engineers to continuously improve their skills and keep abreast of the latest technologies.

Pan Partnership Loyalty is a cross-cutting change programme involving several product teams over John Lewis and Waitrose. As a Senior Staff Engineer you will have significant influence over software engineering within this programme.

You will lead design and engineering decisions which may cross business domains to enable the overall solution to meet business goals and ensure the solution complies with the Partnership\xe2\x80\x99s Architecture and Engineering Principals.

You will also ensure the overall engineering approach is aligned with principles of continuous delivery to enable major components to be deployed to production frequently and independently of each other.

You will be working closely with product teams, Delivery Managers, Product Managers, Enterprise Architects and other stakeholders which will require excellent influencing and stakeholder management skills.

Successful candidates will have a passion for using technology to deliver outstanding and innovative software solutions, and will have a track record of working with teams delivering complex, performant, high quality software.

Essential Skills you will have:

Hands on experience of building software on modern software stack.

Experience of leading and influencing engineering decisions in a complex environment.

A good understanding of software architecture and architectural styles including Microservice and Event architectures.

Experience of building highly performant, scalable applications.

An understanding of Agile development methods such as Scrum or Kanban.

Familiarity with engineering techniques such as TDD, pair programming. You must be comfortable pairing with other Software Engineers.

Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery in complex environments

The ideal candidate will have experience with some parts of our stack:

Microservice/Event driven architecture using GCP/GKE or AWS/EKS

Back-end services are built using Java or Kotlin.

Websites are built using React and TypeScript with a micro-frontend architecture.

Mobile Apps are native in iOS/Swift or Android/Kotlin.

Benefits of the John Lewis Partnership:

You will enjoy 25% discount at John Lewis (electrical items 12%) and 20% discount in Waitrose

We have a competitive pension scheme where your contributions will be matched by the Partnership (up to 8% of pay)

Excellent work life balance, including a focus on well being, flexible working practices and our marketing leading equal parenthood leave policy

Find out more about the

Next Steps:

The application form consists of a CV upload followed by application questions. Please ensure you refresh the page each time you complete a task to ensure you complete everything that you need to do before the closing date.. (If internal, check your Workday notifications and see further guidance on the PDW under "Internal application process").

If you are successful following your initial application, the next stages are: a screening telephone call with a recruiter, a technical coding test and finally a virtual interview.

You\'ll be asked about any adjustments you might need to support the recruitment process. Let us know, and we\'ll be sure to discuss it with you.

Please note, we sometimes close vacancies early in the event of a large response, so we recommend you apply as early as possible. Thanks for your patience in the meantime and for showing an interest in joining JLP.

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Pay Range: \xc2\xa355,800.00 up to \xc2\xa390,000.00 Annual

Scheduled Weekly hours: 35

Worker Type: Permanent Partner

Job Level: Partnership Level 6

Hours of Work: 35

At the John Lewis Partnership, we embrace our differences. We want you to be you. Because, well, we know you\'re at your best when you\'re free to be yourself.

Being a truly inclusive employer to us means creating an environment which celebrates your contribution, regardless of age, gender, race, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, social background, religion or belief. It\'s why we\'ve set our own aim to become the UK\xe2\x80\x99s most inclusive business - for our Partners (employees) and our customers.

We firmly believe that our future success lies in diversity of thought from all Partners and it\'s integral in our mission to build a happier world. \xf0\x9f\x8c\x8d \xf0\x9f\x92\x9a

We welcome applications from everyone interested in working for us. And, once you\'re a Partner, your differences will make all the difference.

Find out more about D&I in the Partnership .

We want all of our Partners to have a good work-life balance and we support flexible working. This might mean flexible or compressed hours, job sharing or shorter hour contracts, where it is possible to do so. Please discuss this further with the hiring manager during your interview.

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John Lewis Partnership