Principal Engineer (Front End)


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Recruiter

Sainsbury's

Listed on

1st February 2018

Location

London

Salary/Rate

Competitive plus benefits

Salary Notes

Competitive plus benefits

Type

Permanent

Start Date

ASAP

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Sainsbury's are one of the largest retailers of quality food, general merchandise, clothing and financial services in the UK, with an annual turnover of £30 billion and over 26 million customer transactions every week.

We are looking for a skilled Principal Engineer with a specialist interest in front end applications to work across our business on a variety of platforms and technologies. You will collaborate closely with engineers and other colleagues to understand their needs and their constraints so you can help shape our engineering approach through spreading good practice, setting standards, teaching, coaching and mentoring.

We want you to continuously improve the way we work so we can delight our colleagues and customers.

What I need to do

Lead as a practioner, writing clean, well abstracted and maintainable code, and supporting others to do the same

Take a test and behaviour driven development approach, and support others to do the same

Work collaboratively and be an active contributor to continuous improvement across the teams and communities of practice

Help create an environment where providing honest and open feedback is the norm

Lead the creation and maintenance of standards

Contribute to the definition and execution of our technology strategy

Instill the benefits and practices of a DevOps culture in our engineers

Ensure there is always an appropriate focus on quality

Teach, coach and mentor other engineers

Take the lead in architecting systems and applications

Facilitate the relationship between engineering and architecture

How I will succeed

Show that you have an excellent understanding for a number of technical skills, attitudes and behaviours, and can instil them in others

Proactively seek opportunities to share your knowledge and abilities

Build strong relationships with engineers and other key roles

Demonstrate empathy with other people's context and constraints

Lead and contribute across Communities of Practice

Be an ambassador for technical excellence

What I need to know

We look for "T-shaped people" - those with broad experience and knowledge, but who also have deep expertise in areas such as mobile, web, back end, quality and operability.

We expect all our Principal Engineers to demonstrate:

The ability to write clear, maintainable code that is well factored

Advanced understanding and experience of TDD and BDD

Advanced understanding and experience of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery, including the design and building of pipelines using effective test approaches

Strong experience of mentoring and coaching team members

Strong knowledge of a DVCS, ideally Git

Strong understanding and experience of agile and lean practices, when they are appropriate and why they work

Experience of leading people, ideally across different teams

Experience of working with business owners and other stakeholders

The ability to look at technologies in a strategic context, beyond personal favourites

Awareness of new technologies and how they may be applied

Experience of pair programming, and able to articulate the benefits

Experience of working in a DevOps culture and understanding of the benefits

Able to present clearly and concisely

Willingness to challenge the status quo

The front end specialist will also demonstrate:

Advanced JavaScript, and experience of other programming languages

Advanced Responsive HTML & CSS

Advanced OO design, including SOLID principles

Advanced understanding and experience of framework agnostic development

Good understanding of cross browser and cross platform automation testing

Strong experience of interacting with various back ends / middleware

Familiarity with web services, particularly REST and caching

Familiarity with Linux command line

Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and services

Familiarity with operating as well as building software

What I need to show

Communication and Influencing - Uses a range of techniques to influence, adapts to situation

Analytical Thinking - Pushes boundaries in solving problems

Aptitude to Learn - Actively seeks feedback from multiple sources and contributes to wider community in own area of expertise

Team Work - Supports a collective effort to resolve problems, uses strengths of team to deliver increased value, builds strong internal/external relationships and bridges where none existed

Leadership and Mentoring

Commitment and Planning - Delivers ahead of expectations

Resources available to me

Line manager providing on-going support through 121’s and SMART objectives

Enterprise Architecture team

Wider development community sharing knowledge and support

What decisions I can make

Influence technology choices for multiple teams

Shape the technical landscape using your experience

Shape tool choices and standards across multiple teams

To find out more and to apply, please click the APPLY button.

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