Senior Data Software Engineer - Python

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, micro services, websites, apps and event-driven architecture using Python and Apache Kafka, and told 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.

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 realise 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.

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 recognise 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. Here are some of them:
 
 Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to get 10% off at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat after 4 weeks. This increases to 15% off at Sainsbury’s every Friday and Saturday and 15% off at Argos every pay day. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 20% of salary, depending on how we perform.  
 
 Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance, and you can buy additional holiday. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, interest free car loan of up to £10k, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, pay advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an Employee Assistance Programme, you will also be eligible for private healthcare too.

Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave. 
 
 Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).

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