Technology at H&B
*Please note this role will require 1 day in our London office every month. (Avg. 9-12 visits per year). Travel can be expensed.*
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
About 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
Key requirements:
* 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, hybrid working model. We have offices in Nuneaton and London ( All candidates must be UK based.
What we offer:
* Pension company contribution = 3%
* Incentive scheme up to 10% of annual salary, based on company performance.
* Your wellbeing is paramount so you can get away and take 33 Days Holiday per year .
* Learning and Development opportunity with Holland & Barrett is a great base for career development long term.
* Private Medical Care (Self after 1 year)
* Career progression.
* Refer and Earn Scheme - as we're growing you can earn money by referring people to join us from your network.
* Epic Extras gives you access to exclusive benefits, free advice and savings from a range of retailers and providers.
* Stay healthy with Discounted Products - from day one you'll get a 25% discount (on top of other promotions) when you shop at H&B on anything that you buy.
* We all need a little help sometimes, so we offer Free 24/7 Confidential Advice & Colleague Welfare .
* Mental Health First Aiders - we have lots of qualified Mental Health First Aiders because its all about your health & wellbeing.
* Stay active in the Onsite Gym at our Nuneaton Hub!
* We have colleague Reward and Recognition Schemes, so your hard work and loyalty won't go unnoticed.
* And many more!
We're passionate about helping every colleague thrive across all dimensions of wellbeing, and we're committed to having a diverse and inclusive workplace. In line with our EPIC values (Expertise, Pioneering, Inclusive, Caring), we embrace and actively celebrate all our colleagues unique and varying experiences, backgrounds, identities and cultures - I am me, we are H&B.