Overview

*Please note this role will require 1 day in our London office every month. (Avg. 9-12 visits per year). Travel can be expensed.*

Technology at H&B

Holland & Barrett is one of the nation’s most loved and trusted brands, known for offering quality health food, vitamins and supplements all sold by highly trained and qualified advisors. Bucking the current trend of high street retailers, we forecast significant growth and expansion plans in the coming years, with considerable investment going into all areas of the business. We need to be at the forefront of the rapidly advancing technology that is helping our customers meet their health and wellness goals.

We are investing heavily in delivering more speed in the retail experience, greater convenience in service and delivery, and increasing personalisation in our brand and product propositions, both in-store and online. We love the cloud, we prefer building the right solutions over buying generic ones, and we embrace automation and testing in all thing’s software, infrastructure, and data. We certainly embrace change and drive speed in everything we do. Every day presents a different challenge, but is filled with fun, teamwork, and passion to succeed and surpass every

The Role

One of the largest parts of the business we are looking to grow and change our technical capability in are our Stores. We are looking at the future of shopping in a post-Covid time and we are now integrating Handheld Terminals in all our stores. These are the enabler for us to modernise our store processes and we have developed a suite of apps which will allow customers to check to see if an item is in stock here or nearby, provide personalised product recommendations and simplify the colleague experiences around stock management and pricing. The role is for someone who is a native Android Developer, with great experience in latest Android SDK and passion for mobile technologies. We are full stack engineering team, developing our Android apps as well as the services needed to support our use cases if they do not already exist.

Skills & Experience

  • Solid 6-7+ years experience with Android SDK, IDE, Jetpack Libraries, and other popular third-party libraries.
  • Solid Kotlin Programming experience.
  • Experience of the full software development cycle, from design to support.
  • Build solutions using MVVM and a dependency injection framework like Dagger, Koin, etc.
  • Apply best practices for automation testing and always write testable code.
  • As comfortable spearheading initiatives alone as working with a larger team.
  • Desire to learn, grow and bring new ideas into the team
  • Able to communicate with non-technical stakeholders

Nice to have

  • Knowledge of Multi-Platform frameworks like KMM, Flutter etc.
  • Knowledge of Java service development using Spring Boot
  • Able to debug software issues through the app and service stacks
  • Experience of Docker, AWS and Gitlab CI, or similar tools
  • We welcome any other diverse experiences that can be applied in our wider team!

We offer a flexible, home-based working model. We have offices in Nuneaton and London, but you will not be required to be office-based (unless you would like to!) All candidates must be UK based.

Benefits

  • We operate virtually. Remote, hybrid or in our tech hubs – we work in an agile environment where you can thrive.
  • We offer a 10% incentive scheme, based on company performance – when we win, so do you
  • Learn from the best – at H&B you’ll have the opportunity to enhance and expand your skills and shape your career
  • We want you to produce your best, so we provide you with the best tech equipment
  • Stay healthy with a 25% discount on all product ranges to help you live well
  • We like to recognise and celebrate our people with our Colleague Recognition Scheme, so your hard work won’t go unnoticed

About Holland & Barrett

We welcome everyone who shares our EPIC values regardless of background, culture, disability, ethnicity, gender identity or sexual orientation. We are a growing and pioneering business. Our diverse and EPIC teams enable us to push boundaries and accomplish the extraordinary. As we continue to transform, we need more of the brightest and best minds to join us to turn our vision into a reality.

http://www.hollandandbarrett.jobs/

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