Overview

Senior Software Engineer(Hybrid)

We’re Kingfisher, a team made up of over 82,000 passionate people who bring Kingfisher - and all our other brands: Castorama, B&Q, Screwfix, Brico Dépôt and Koçtaş - to life. That’s right, we’re big, but we have ambitions to become even bigger and even better. We want to become the leading home improvement company and grow the largest community of home improvers in the world. And that’s where you come in.

At Kingfisher, our customers come from all walks of life, and so do we. We want to ensure that all colleagues, future colleagues, and applicants to Kingfisher are treated equally regardless of age, gender, marital or civil partnership status, colour, ethnic or national origin, culture, religious belief, philosophical belief, political opinion, disability, gender identity, gender expression or sexual orientation.

We are open to flexible and agile working. Therefore, we offer colleagues a blend of working from home and our office, located in Kraków. Talk to us about how we can best support you!

At Kingfisher, we value the perspectives that any new team members bring, and we want to hear from you. We encourage you to apply for one of our roles, even if you do not feel you meet 100% of the requirements.

In return, we offer an inclusive environment, where what you can achieve is limited only by your imagination! We encourage new ideas, actively support experimentation, and strive to build an environment where everyone can be their best self. Interested? Great, apply now and help us to Power the Possible.

We offer a competitive benefit package and plenty of opportunities to stretch and grow your career:

• Private medical healthcare at LUXMED (including dentalcare) for you and your family
• Medicover sports card (Fit&More package)
• Life insurance financed by the employer
• 30-minute lunch break included in the 8-hour working day
• Work in a highly professional and stimulating atmosphere
• Training & Buddy programme that will allow you to quickly adapt to your new role
• Wellbeing programme for employees
• Co-financing of monthly tickets for the public transport in Krakow
• Comfortable working environment in the office and the possibility of home office
• Language courses, accounting courses, access to LinkedIn Learning and the possibility of co-financing studies and certification
• Employee referral programme

What’s the job?

About the role We are going through and exciting period of change and are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Senior Engineer (Backend) to join our Software Engineering team. You will work as part of our exciting greenfield tech hub covering all facets of technology.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will work closely with your cross functional team to design and implement new features and products, whilst bringing ideas, energy, and leadership to the table.

If you’re looking for an exciting opportunity to step out of your comfort zone and make a real impact building better software, this is the job for you!

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and deploy high quality software that will delight our customers.
• Work with users and stakeholders to understand and deliver value through your product.
• Participate in design, code, and test reviews.
• Practice DevOps, testing and releasing software continuously.
• Integrate software with monitoring, observability, and support tools.
• Mentor other engineers.
• Participate in team process, using Agile methodologies to adapt and continuously improve.
• Follow data-driven approaches to conduct experiments and iterate features.
• Share feedback & seek opportunities to improve software quality.
• Help troubleshoot and resolve issues throughout the product life cycle.
• Researchnew technologies that can be of use.

What you’ll bring

Skills and Experience

• Strong proficiency in Java (preferably Java 17+)
• Solid experience with the Spring ecosystem
• Understanding of RESTful API design and development
• Familiarity with event-driven architecture and messaging systems (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ)
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions)
• Knowledge of Docker and basic container orchestration concepts (e.g., Kubernetes)
• Ability to participate in and influence solution design and architectural discussions
• Good grasp of software engineering principles: SOLID, clean code, testability
• Experience with unit testing and integration testing frameworks (e.g., JUnit, Testcontainers)
• Familiarity with version control systems (e.g., Git)
• Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive, ownership-driven mindset
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams
• Excellent command of English (written and spoken)

Nice to have

• Experience of mentoring other engineers.
• Experience with microservices architectures.
• Experience working with cloud-based solutions (AWS preferred).
• Experience programming in Kotlin.
• Experience with Test Driven Development and/or Behavioural Driven Development approaches.

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