Iconic British brand ghd is a global leader in high end professional hair styling tools and the UK’s number one recommended styling brand. Loved by stylists and consumers, loved by press, and loved by the people that work for the brand!
Merging science and innovation, with luxury beauty and style; ghd combines cutting edge technologies and beautiful designs to create the most technically advanced hair tools in the world. ghd tools deliver “safer for hair” heat styling that have become an essential part of the daily lives of professional hair stylists and consumers globally.
Renowned for game changing innovation and superior performance, at ghd we are on a mission to transform lives with the power of a good hair day!
LOCATION
This role will be based in our Leeds office, and we offer a hybrid working pattern of 3 days in the office and 2 days WFH.
ABOUT THIS ROLE
We are looking for a lead JAVA developer to be the senior developer in our established internal ecommerce development team at ghd. Our internal team has been in place less than a year and we continue to grow and invest this team to deliver our healthy roadmap. After a successful replatform to SAP Commerce Cloud (v2) we are looking to what’s next – continue to push the capabilities of the platform and ghd’s customer offering whilst building for a more composable future with everything that entails.
We don’t stand still at ghd and we are looking continuously enhance the platform. We are in a period of continuing growth and this role will be instrumental in supporting development operations to the business.
We offer a collaborative and innovative environment and are looking to this role to lead technical development and shape commerce platform delivery for the future. A composable solution is very much on the roadmap for our technical delivery and this role will be key to delivery.
JOB ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
* The successful applicant will join our existing in-house experience and capability to develop and grow the commerce platform.
* Lead and provide experience to the other members of the development team
* Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand project requirements and translate them into technical solutions
* Support developers on their day-to-day tasks
* Analyse and resolve production issues, providing timely support to minimise downtime
* Discovery and implementation through proof of concepts for new features
* Low level design and estimation
* Checking the tasks are going to meet the sprint/release deadlines and raise risks in a timely manner
* Define/design integration with third-party services and platforms
* Making sure source code for a task meets the solution agreed
* Optimise e-commerce systems for performance, scalability, and security, ensuring a fast and secure online shopping experience
* Collaborate with the QA team to develop and execute comprehensive test plans, ensuring the reliability and quality of e-commerce applications
* Support wider teams when development manager unavailable
* Deploy releases to production on a rota
REQUIREMENTS
* Expertise in SAP Commerce Cloud and a strong ecommerce background
* Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field
* Excellent knowledge of Java platform (collections, concurrency, etc), Springboot Microservices
* Experience with Gitflow, Jenkins, CI/CD pipelines functioning
* Analysis skills, ability to challenge approaches and propose the most optimal solutions
* Understanding of SDLC and agile methodologies in particular
* Experience with unit and integration testing (JUnit, TestNG, Mockito, etc.)
* Hands-on experience with developer daily basis tools such as IDE’s, compilers, debuggers, profilers, version control systems, bug tracking systems, build systems (Gradle, Maven2, etc), code coverage and automated testing tools
* Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail
* Experienced with containerisation technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
VALUES
We at ghd are proudly committed to our Company Values and aim to attract and retain employees who live our Values.
* Collaborative – We work together to create the extraordinary.
* Creative – We foster creativity & excellence to create value for our brands and business.
* Courageous – We are agile, entrepreneurial & we own our future.
* Connected – We stay connected and ensure we are always consumer first.
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