Job Description

About the Role
Job Overview

• Design and implement technical solutions to complex problems, balancing user needs with wider system and platform requirements
• Develop backend services and frontend applications in line with agreed user stories, architectural standards and best practices
• Write high-quality, efficient and scalable code using modern languages and frameworks
• Test and validate your own work, and contribute to peer reviews to ensure reliability, performance and maintainability
• Produce clear, concise technical documentation to enable teams to understand, support and extend applications
• Collaborate closely with multidisciplinary teams to refine requirements and deliver effective solutions
• Identify, troubleshoot and resolve issues across the full development lifecycle
• Apply a broad understanding of modern technologies to select appropriate tools and approaches
• Ensure systems are designed for scale, resilience ,security and integration with wider enterprise platforms
• Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Package Description

• 40,000 - 47,000 Depending on Experience
• Based on site at our Liverpool Head Office

Employee Benefits

• Full-time employees receive 28 days of annual leave (inclusive of bank holidays), increasing to 33 days after 5 years of service. Annual leave is pro-rated for part-time or alternative working arrangements.
• Contributable company pension scheme
• 10% store discount at all our retail stores
• Death in Service Benefit
• Long service recognition scheme
• MyHB colleague benefits platform with access to:

• Discounts UK wide on retail, leisure, hospitality venues
• Employee Assistance Programme with 24/7 confidential counselling and advice line
• Low-cost voluntary insured health cash plans and cancer cover

Minimum Criteria to Apply
Minimum Criteria To Apply
We're looking for a confident, delivery-focused mid-level Developer who combines strong technical capability with the ability to collaborate, influence and communicate clearly across teams.
Essential experience and skills include:

• Strong development experience using JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js and/or Go
• Experience building frontend applications using React and TypeScript
• Proven ability to write efficient, high-quality code for scalable systems
• Experience designing and working with NoSQL databases, including DynamoDB
• Hands-on experience working within CI/CD pipelines
• A solid understanding of microservice architecture principles
• Experience deploying and operating services using Kubernetes
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to design solutions to complex technical challenges
• Experience testing, validating and documenting technical solutions
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with confidence working across technical and non-technical stakeholders
• An understanding of how individual services fit into larger, enterprise-scale architectures

Desirable (Bonus) Experience

• Knowledge or hands-on experience with Cloudflare Workers or edge-based/serverless compute
• Exposure to cloud-native platforms and modern infrastructure tooling - AWS
• Experience contributing to technical design discussions and architectural decisions

Skills Required