Senior Software Engineer

Domestic & General is a company with an ambitious future. We are expanding our horizons and entering new markets and we need your expertise to help make it happen. We are an international company who works with some of the worlds most respected and well-known brands of domestic appliances and electronic consumer goods. These opportunities don’t come around often, so this really is a position not to be missed.

Are you ready to help drive change on one of the most visible and business critical platforms in our business that impacts the lives of millions of customers?

We have a unique opportunity to join Domestic & General as a Senior Frontend Software Engineer for Bright.

Bright is D&G’s flagship greenfield platform designed to deliver best-in-class repair management for our customers around the world. It’s a complex, multi-faceted platform that will redefine how our business manages repairs with both customers and repair partners alike. With its ambitious scope and strategic importance, Bright is a cornerstone of our future success.

You will be part of a dynamic squad focused on developing and launching a suite of innovative solutions to meet the demands of our business.

Working alongside the Product Manager and Designer, you will be helping to define the future direction of the products that we build, solving complex problems and developing new features and products through quality, scalable, performant and maintainable technical solutions. The solutions that you will be responsible for will have a global reach, impacting millions of customers.

You’ll be a passionate, pragmatic Frontend Software Engineer with an inquisitive mind who is motivated to make change for the better and most importantly put our customers first. You’ll enjoy working as part of a team and be a keen problem solver. Comfortable with modern engineering practices and frontend development tooling and technologies you’ll use innovation to improve the customer experience and efficiency of engineering teams.

Some of the tech we are using at scale: ES6, React, React Native, Redux, Node, Typescript, graphql, Styled-components Webpack, Cypress, Docker, EKS, AWS services.

Key Responsibilities
 

• Use your in-depth knowledge of JavaScript, Typescript, React, Node and the tool ecosystem to develop and implement scalable frontend systems.
• Profile and optimise code.
• Produce test driven features and demonstrate familiarity with the TDD cycle.
• Identify patterns in code and refactor the code towards them where it increases understanding and/or maintainability with minimal guidance.
• Translate requirements into tasks & code.
• Develop high quality code that can lead to rapid delivery, ruthlessly pursuing continuous integration and delivery – CICD.
• Commit code early and often, demonstrating understanding of version control & branching strategies.
• Automate everything by default.
• Write secure code by default.
• Write maintainable code and observe basic hygiene practices.
• Implement relevant project instrumentation.
• Follow the best practices of continuous BDD/TDD/Performance/Security/Smoke testing.
• Work effectively with product stakeholders to communicate and translate needs into product improvements.
• Lead group discussions on system design and understand domain well enough to work with Product Managers and Designers to drive value.
• Support production systems, resolve incidents and perform root cause analysis.
• Debug/find complex problems and support/maintain the software solution.
• Share knowledge with the wider engineering community.
• Mentor and develop others around you.
• Produce proof of concepts to evaluate new tool.

   

Skills And Experience
 

• Experience delivering production apps in React, JavaScript and Typescript.
• 5+ years of experience as a Frontend or Fullstack Developer with expertise in React JS/UI development, and experience working alongside backend technologies.
• Strong proficiency in Typescript, JavaScript, React, Node, ES6+, HTML, and CSS.
• Experience writing automated software tests (e.g. unit tests, integration tests)
• Experience with React JS and its core principles.
• Proficiency with React Hooks.
• Familiarity with state management libraries such as Redux or Context API.
• Understanding of REST APIs and asynchronous request handling.
• Understanding of GraphQL.
• Some experience with Storybook and design system development.
• Responsive design and development experience.
• Familiarity with version control systems (e.g., Git).
• Preference for Atomic CSS, and experience with Tailwind or other CSS frameworks/tools.
• Experience using a headless CMS.

We offer lots of great benefits! Some of which include:

Competitive salary and annual discretionary bonus

25 days annual leave plus bank/public holidays, as well as an annual option to buy up to 5 additional days of annual leave

Training opportunities as well as clearly defined career progression

Health cash plan – employer funded cover to enable you to claim money back on essential healthcare costs, including dental, optical, physiotherapy and many more. Cover also includes unlimited access to a 24/7 virtual GP service

Attractive company pension schemeLife assurance – employer funded cover of 4x basic salary

Dedicated online benefit portal offering access to saving and lending facilities, financial wellbeing and support services

Salary Finance – access to savings and borrowing through payroll

Car Leasing – access to a carbon neutral salary sacrifice car leasing scheme, with an all-inclusive monthly cost covering all charge, taxes, insurance, repairs and maintenance on a range of brand new vehicles

Travel Loans – interest free loans to help spread the cost of annual travel tickets

Cycle to Work – tax efficient bike and cycling equipment worth up to £1,000

Health & Wellbeing – discounted gym membership, online virtual workout sessions, online culinary classes

OnHand – Giving you the opportunity to be an Eco & Social volunteer via a handy app. Volunteer individually or in groups to get involved in Youth Mentoring, Food Poverty, Homelessness & Elderly help

Employee Assistance Programme – specialist advice and support on issues such as finance, relationships, illness and family issues

Free Domestic & General protection plan – one free plan each year with access to discounted rates of up to 50% on additional plans, including referrals for family and friends

Employee discounts – access to discounted Sky TV and broadband packages, together with a range of discounts for 100s of online and high street retailers

Domestic & General are an equal opportunities employer which means we treat people fairly. We welcome applications from all suitably skilled persons regardless of their gender, age, race, disability, ethnic background, religion/belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment or marital/family status.

Please note that we have a thorough referencing process, which includes criminal record checks.

At Domestic & General, we are proud of our 100-year legacy and excited about our future growth plans. We are expanding our horizons, entering new markets and territories internationally and we need your expertise to help us on the journey.

Senior Data Engineer

For this role, senior experience of Data Engineering and building automated data pipelines on IBM Datastage & DB2, AWS and Databricks from source to operational databases through to curation layer is expected using the latest cloud modern technologies where experience of delivering complex pipelines will be significantly valuable to how D&G maintain and deliver world class data pipelines.

Job summary:

D+G is transforming into a technology-powered product business serving customers around the world. Our products and services rely heavily on compelling digital experiences and data-led journeys for our B2B and B2C clients and customers.

This is a key lead engineering role with D&G’s technology team which presents a challenging and exciting opportunity which will require real enthusiasm and modern Data engineering experience to stabilise, enhance and transform D&G’s operational Customer Databases as they move from legacy systems to new scalable cloud solutions across the UK, EU and US. The role will require an experienced Data engineer with good knowledge of IBM Datastage & DB2, AWS & Databricks pipelines who is able to excel in challenging environments with the confidence to help the teams steer the right course in the development of the data platform alongside supporting any required tooling decisions.

The role will enable D+G to deliver a modern data services layer, delivered as a product, and which can hence be consumed by key service channels and stakeholders on demand.

Strategic Impact:

Quality Customer Data is the lifeblood of D&G’s operations which allows us to serve our customers with outstanding propositions and outcomes. This role will be integral to supporting this through the following areas of delivery:

On-Prem Customer Data Platform Stabilisation

This role will initially help stabilise existing on-prem Customer Data Platforms to help serve our customers and protect the one-billion-pound revenue across the UK and EU. Targets will be to reduce merge and compliance incident backlog, promote more automation and support onboarding of 3rd party to provide managed break / fix service.

Support Data Growth in UK and US Markets

Supporting further growth in UK / EU markets through enhancement of the Customer on-prem IBM platforms to ensure they remain available, robust and secure for growing data demands in UK / EU whilst leading on delivery of cloud based solutions for the US pipelines and Data platform.

Knowledge, Expertise, Complexity and Scope:

Knowledge in the following areas essential:
 

Data Engineering Experience:

• Databricks: Expertise in managing and scaling Databricks environments for ETL, data science, and analytics use cases.
• AWS Cloud: Extensive experience with AWS services such as S3, Glue, Lambda, RDS, and IAM.
• IBM Skills: DB2, Datastage, Tivoli Workload Scheduler, Urban Code
• Programming Languages: Proficiency in Python, SQL.
• Data Warehousing & ETL: Experience with modern ETL frameworks and data warehousing techniques.
• DevOps & CI/CD: Familiarity with DevOps practices for data engineering, including infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation), CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring (e.g., CloudWatch, Datadog).
• Familiarity with big data technologies like Apache Spark, Hadoop, or similar.
• Test automation skills
• ETL/ELT tools and creating common data sets across on-prem (IBM Datastage ETL) and cloud data stores
• Leadership & Strategy: Lead Data Engineering team(s) in designing, developing, and maintaining highly scalable and performant data infrastructures.
• Customer Data Platform Development: Architect and manage our data platforms using IBM (legacy platform) & Databricks on AWS technologies (e.g., S3, Lambda, Glacier, Glue, EventBridge, RDS) to support real-time and batch data processing needs.
• Data Governance & Best Practices: Implement best practices for data governance, security, and data quality across our data platform. Ensure data is well-documented, accessible, and meets compliance standards.
• Pipeline Automation & Optimisation: Drive the automation of data pipelines and workflows to improve efficiency and reliability.
• Team Management: Mentor and grow a team of data engineers, ensuring alignment with business goals, delivery timelines, and technical standards.
• Cross Company Collaboration: Work closely with all levels of business stakeholder including data scientists, finance analysts, MI and cross-functional teams to ensure seamless data access and integration with various tools and systems.
• Cloud Management: Lead efforts to integrate and scale cloud data services on AWS, optimising costs and ensuring the resilience of the platform.
• Performance Monitoring: Establish monitoring and alerting solutions to ensure the high performance and availability of data pipelines and systems to ensure no impact to downstream consumers.

• Key Responsibilities:
• Manage outcomes for the on-prem customer platform break / fix service.
• Build and deliver automated and secure data pipelines that provisions data for all business users and applications (including operational and insight)
• Work with the DevOps developer and testers to help support and create our AWS & Databricks infrastructure and continuous delivery pipelines.

• Ensure all developments are tested and deployed within the automated CI / CD pipeline where appropriate.

• Version and store all development artefacts in the agreed repository

• Ensure all data are catalogued and appropriate documentation is created and maintained for all ETL code and associated NFR’s.

• Collaborate with the product owner (Data) & business stakeholders to understand the requirements and capabilities.

• Collaborate with the lead architect, CCOE to align to the best practice delivery strategy.

• Participate in the teams agile planning and delivery process to ensure work is delivered in line with the Product Owners priorities

• Create low level designs for Epic’s and Stories and where required, support the lead architect to create the designs to enable the realization of the Data Lake, Operational Customer DB, Warehouse and marts while ensuring scalability, security by design, ease of use and high availability & reliability.

• Identify the key capabilities needed for success and the technology choices, coding standards, testing techniques and delivery approach to deliver reliable data services

• Learn emerging technologies to keep abreast of new or better ways of delivering the Data Pipeline

• Welcomes a challenge as a new opportunity to learn new things and make new friends whilst always thinking of better techniques to solve problems

At Domestic & General, we are proud of our 100-year legacy and excited about our future growth plans. We are expanding our horizons, entering new markets and territories internationally and we need your expertise to help us on the journey.