Senior Backend Engineer

Senior Backend Engineer

Frasers Group are currently looking for a Senior Backend Engineer for Digital Data Squad to join our growing IT function and work as part of an enthusiastic, motivated, and delivery focused agile team. Frasers Group are a global powerhouse within retail, made up of household names such as Sports Direct and USC. IT at Frasers Group is delivered by the in-house team who are passionate about what they do and are not dependent on outsourced organisations to deliver the core systems. We present an ideal opportunity for someone who is passionate about technology and wants to deliver the absolute best that they can and keep innovation at the forefront. There is a wealth of opportunity for training as well as on the job learning.

This role is hybrid with 3 days and the office and 2 days at home

Key Responsibilities:

• Working on all aspects of our state of the art, inhouse developed, ecommerce platform. Our platform runs over 50 websites - including some of the biggest names in Retail
• Providing innovative, fast, and reliable websites by building robust interconnected data applications and services that serves large quantities of data
• Developing on the backend, mostly with data related systems with a range of exciting technologies
• Managing the full software development lifecycle, ensuring appreciation of quality assurance, continuous integration/delivery, and the benefits of automation
• Designing, developing, and testing, fast, scalable, and architecturally robust solutions
• Staying up to date with the latest technology and industry trends, continuously looking for ways to apply them for our benefit

Qualifications:

• .Net Core (C#)
• Relational (Sql Server/Oracle) and NoSQL databases
• Microservices & distributed systems architecture
• Cloud Experience
• 5 years experience in a similar role

Desirable:

• Azure
• Terraform
• Node.js
• MongoDB
• REST Api design
• GraphQL
• gRPC
• Search Engines: ElasticSearch/Algolia/Typesense or similar
• Distributed Caching e.g Redis

What's next?

Our Recruitment Team will be reviewing applications and all candidates will receive a response, whether you are successful or unsuccessful. Shortlisted applicants may be asked to confirm a few key details before being booked in for a first stage interview with the Recruiter- this will be behaviourally focussed and centred around how you align with our Culture and Values. If successful we anticipate two further interview stages with the Hiring Manager/wider team which will be more technically focussed and could include a presentation/task so we can see your skills in action.