Junior Software Engineer
If you love tech, innovation and fast pace, you’re in the right place.
We are excited to be welcoming a new Junior Software Engineer to join our digital eCommerce development team.
You will be a key player in enhancing our eCommerce site by assisting the digital content and marketing teams with building assets/components in JavaScript, ReactJS, CSS, and HTML, ensuring that the content management system tool can be utilised without developer support. You will work closely with our core codebase and help build a brand-new storefront developed in React and Salesforce Commerce Cloud technologies.
Key Responsibilities:
Delivering quality code & working collaboratively with Product Managers, UX Designers and QA Engineers in an agile methodology framework.
Contributing to peer reviewing code of other Developers and demonstrating proactive ownership of carrying tickets through the project lifecycle from development to production.
Architecting responsive and interactive mobile-first web standards, improving
the experience for the end user.
Maintaining and contributing to writing documentation and testing notes, so that both technical & non-technical members can work with the provided solutions.
Showing the ability to host technical walkthroughs to other team members.
Ensuring that code is written to be scalable and reusable by correctly using MVC and other design patterns.
Understanding the importance of website performance, optimisation & SEO metrics and how they are used to drive revenue.
Consistently keeping up to date with the latest web development trends and practices – being critical of existing code and suggesting areas for improvement.
Leveraging features and capabilities of our eCommerce platform.
The experience we are looking for:
Experience with database services (e.g. Azure SQL Database, SQL Server and
Databricks).
Knowledge of database design and data modelling concepts.
Familiarity with DevOps practices and database automation tools.
Experience with Content Management Systems
Experience with Email Service Providers
Experience with styling libraries such as Tailwind
Familiarity with Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Knowledge of Atlassian tools for software development including JIRA, Bitbucket and
Confluence.
About us
Space NK is the ultimate curator of over 100 of the most in-demand, highly innovative and boundary-pushing beauty brands, we are the go-to destination for worldwide beauty discovery.
Together through our neighbourhood stores, online presence and loyalty scheme, Space NK has built a flourishing community in which to discover beauty. The customer is at the heart of everything we do, and we will always endeavour to offer everything they need to help them explore, experiment, and enjoy our brands.
Please note that only successful candidates will be contacted and all applicants must have the right to live and work in the UK.
If you want to find out more about us, what it is like to work for us, all about our benefits, and our pledges on Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging, please visit our website.
Space NK are an equal opportunities employer.
How We Will Use Your Information
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Please note that our current system does not use an automated filtering system.
All applications made via the website, through a third-party website or in-store will be kept on file for a period of 12 months.
This information will be retained and used to assess your suitability to similar positions that may arise in the future, or if the initial vacancy becomes live again during the 12-month period. If you would prefer us to not hold your information on file/ you wish to be ‘forgotten’ if you are not offered a position with Space NK, please email your ‘right to be forgotten’ to our recruitment email address with RIGHT TO BE FORGOTTEN as the title of the email. We will always inform you when we have deleted your application details, otherwise we will treat your application as consent to us holding this information.
- Team
- Technology - Digital Development
- Locations
- London
- Remote status
- Hybrid