Senior Backend Java Developer

Senior Software Engineer (Backend) – Krakow – Remote

We’re Kingfisher. You might know us as Castorama, B&Q, Screwfix, Brico Depot or Koçtaş. We’re made up of over 78,000 passionate people, call over 1,300 stores home and operate in 8 countries. 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.

Role Overview:

We are going through and exciting period of change and are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Senior Backend Engineer to join our Software Engineering team. As a 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. Our aspiration is to grow an engineering function that is world class, pioneering in the retail technology space, making great software within a growth culture that is always looking for the next thing to improve or adapt to meet our customer needs.

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!  

What we offer

• 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 benefits package and plenty of opportunities to stretch and grow your career.

Interested? Great, apply now and help us to Power the Possible.

• Design, develop, test, and deploy high quality software 
• Work with users and stakeholders to understand and deliver value through your product
• Participate and lead upon design, code, and test reviews.
• Practice DevOps, testing and releasing software continuously.
• Integrate software with monitoring, observability, and support tools
• Lead, coach and mentor engineers.
• Participate in team process, using Agile methodologies to adapt and continuously improve
• Follow data-driven approaches to conduct experiments and iterate features.
• Share feedback & seek opportunities to improve software quality.
• Exercise strong technical aptitude to influence positive change and innovation.
• Help troubleshoot and resolve issues throughout the product life cycle.
• Research new technologies that can be of use.

• Significant exposure working in fast-moving software engineering teams.
• Great core Java / Kotlin design and development skills. 
• Strong knowledge of object-oriented and functional programming, design patterns and multi-threading programming. 
• Experience with microservices and event driven architectures. 
• Experience working with cloud-based solutions (AWS/GCP preferred).
• A good knowledge of unit and integration testing techniques.
• Experience with CI and CD pipelines, and supporting platforms, e.g., Gitlab.
• Extensive experience with source control, e.g., Git.
• Strong understanding of RESTful services (JSON) and API Design.
• Understanding of SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Experience of mentoring and coaching other software engineers.
• Ability to clearly articulate complex problems and solutions in terms that others can understand.