Junior Software Engineer

Iceland is a unique British business, focused on frozen food, innovation, convenience and value. We are currently one of the fastest growing supermarket brands in the UK.

Iceland’s history of innovation is an impressive one, from being the first supermarket to remove artificial colourings and flavourings, the first to remove GM ingredients from our own label products and the first supermarket to offer a nationwide home shopping service. We are also championing green initiatives to help reduce plastic and food waste. Iceland are never afraid to pioneer new initiatives and try new ways to deliver an outstanding offering to our customers.

Integration Team Background

Responsible for all things Integration, the Iceland Integration engineering team is split into multiple squads of around five or six integration and cloud engineers each headed by a Principal software engineer, supported by a senior software engineer and responsible for a portfolio of products. Test and Business Analyst resource are also assigned to the squads.

The product portfolios are broadly grouped together around related business functionality. An architect brings this all together and works in collaboration with the engineering teams to maintain a cohesive and structured architecture across the products.

The team follow a cloud first approach developing micro services hosted in MS Azure focussing heavily on Azure’s Serverless portfolio and following modern engineering practices and methodologies.

Purpose of the Role

As a Junior Software Engineer, you will be responsible for building and maintaining MS Azure-based integrations and APIs that support the Iceland business. You’ll be actively involved in the design phase, implementing and running the applications and services that your squad are responsible for. You will be expected to follow team standards and patterns and will be mentored to ensure you will be developing following best practices in software and integration engineering.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Work alongside the other engineers, business analyst and testers in your squad to build and maintain our integration processes and applications.
• Contribute to design, refinement and development of user stories to deliver leading edge integration solutions on our cloud platform.
• Take responsibility for code quality and unit tests of built artefacts.
• Provide support for team owned applications and integrations and be willing to work alongside stakeholders to ensure timely resolution of any issues.
• Proactively engage with other team and department members to improve your business knowledge and technical skills.

Who? We Are Looking For

A recent graduate with a computer science background or similar, with a desire to design, build, and support integration solutions on a leading-edge cloud platform. C# or .Net experience useful but not essential.

Or someone looking to change their current career trajectory, with an interest and aptitude in Cloud computing and integration.

A good communicator, with excellent collaboration skills.

What we can offer you

• A very competitive salary with an excellent benefits package
• 25 days holiday, plus 8 days bank holiday
• Flexible working, 2 days in the office a week
• 15% store discount, 30% club individual restaurant discount
• Free parking
• Highly subsidised restaurant onsite with our own Michelin Star Chef!
• Subsidised Costa onsite
• Discounted gym membership
• Charity fundraising events
• Educational sponsorship
• Enhanced maternity/paternity leave
• Long service awards
• Reward & recognition
• Online discounts at over 150 retailers and cashback on shopping, holidays, insurance and more!

Be Proud. Be brave. Be everything that makes us different. Be Iceland.

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: From £20,000.00 per year

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Work Location: Hybrid remote in DEESIDE