Job Description
Job Title: Sainsburys Tech - Senior Data Software Engineer - Python
Why join us
As a Python Engineer, you'll create great products by interpreting and applying best practice architectural and engineering principles, operating frameworks, and new and improved tech applications. We'd also like you to be yourself - analytical, curious and unafraid to learn new skills or challenge the status quo. Acting as a role model, you'll look to improve the way things are done in your team too.
What you'll do
You'll contribute to the design and development of large-scale high-performance services, microservices, websites, apps, and event-driven architecture using Python and Apache Kafka, and tools and frameworks including Django and Flask. Whether you're testing and debugging software, developing back-end components, or documenting requirements, you'll find time to keep up to date with the latest tools and practices and share that with the team. It'll see you produce structured, clean code and contribute to our product technical roadmap. You'll also work with cloud and container technologies such as Kubernetes on AWS and Google Cloud Platform, and help design and support services and internal framework to enhance our capabilities.
Who you are
Strong Python knowledge, unit test, and debugging skills are a must, and you'll bring us experience with AWS, APIs, and container-based applications. As well as being familiar with Database concepts and query languages like SQL, you'll know about historical or bulk data processing, running asynchronous tasks, working with pipelines, and developing scalable and high-volume transaction applications. On the programming side, you'll need to be passionate about languages such as ReactJS, Java/Springboot, or Golang. As well as all this, we'll look for self-drive and a push for advocacy of agile/lean delivery methodologies plus a passion for delivering solutions, owning the whole and living the DevSecOps principles. If you also want to learn more about emerging tech and help the whole team deliver, we should be talking.
Responsibilities
We'd all like amazing work to do and real work-life balance. That's waiting for you at Sainsbury's. Think about the scale it takes for us to feed the nation. The level of data, transactions, and variety it involves. Then you'll realize that ours is a modern software engineering environment because it has to be. We've made serious investment into a Tech Academy and into setting standards and principles. We iterate, learn, experiment, and push ways of working such as Agile, Scrum, and XP. So you can look forward to awesome opportunities in everything from AI to reusable tech.
Qualifications
We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer, so you'll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there's always the chance to try something new - whether that's as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognize and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we'll also offer you an amazing range of benefits.
- Colleague discount
- Pensions scheme and life cover
- Performance-related bonus
- Annual holiday allowance and the ability to buy additional holiday
- Other benefits to help your money go further
- Wellbeing benefits
- Parental leave benefits
For more benefits information, visit www.sainsburys.jobs (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).
About Us
Sainsbury's company vision: Our vision is to be the most trusted retailer, where people love to work and shop. That means harnessing the talent, creativity, and diversity of our colleagues to ensure that customers receive great service every time they shop with us. If you would like to hear more about our vision and values, be sure to visit our corporate page. We invest in training, development, and multiple initiatives to ensure our teams feel enabled to offer the best shopping experience to our customers and that Sainsbury's is truly a 'Great Place to Work'.
About the Team
We're in the business of looking after our biggest asset - our people. That means making it our business to properly take care of the potential and wellbeing of our truly outstanding teams. Join us in HR, and we'll make it yours too. They bring the spark, the funny, the graft, the grit. And they're literally the most important asset we have. So it's in our interests to give the people at Sainsbury's everything they need to feel valued, engaged, and motivated, and truly able to shine. That's where our HR colleagues have a pivotal role to play. From our 'centre of excellence' teams in Reward and Recruitment, through to our core teams in Change and Talent, they're creating environments that allow our colleagues to thrive and we're proud of their incredible ability to understand Sainsbury's inside out.
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