Software Engineer

Do you want to work for a company that goes the extra mile for its customers, colleagues and communities? Are you resilient, efficient, and productive? Can you lead by example? If so, then why not join our family.

At Iceland, we value, recognize, and celebrate all colleagues for their good work. We pride ourselves on being team players who can work collaboratively with others. We offer some great opportunities for career progression and development, alongside a competitive salary and a great benefits package.

We have an opening for a Software Engineer. This would be suitable for a Junior Software Engineer who is looking for that next step up as a Mid-Level Software Engineer. This role is Deeside based with hybrid working, please only apply if you can commute to our Head Office.

In our I.T. department, we have made huge changes in our technical landscape over the last few years with an enormous push to move our compute into the cloud to help deliver innovative, scalable line of business applications. This evolution is still happening as we utilise more and more cloud native functionality and find ever more efficient and scalable ways to deliver solutions to our colleagues.

We collaborate closely with Microsoft on Application Architecture, Design and infrastructure, as well as utilising Microsoft learn to educate our teams, who have the opportunity to gain official Microsoft certifications along the way.

Our Team

The Software Engineering team are well established at Iceland. Weve delivered software solutions across many parts of the business and are a key function in delivering Icelands future. Iceland has a fairly unique stance when assessing technical solution requirements and will generally lean towards writing in-house solutions rather than buy off-the-shelf to ensure we deliver a highly tailored solution the is fit for purpose. This has led to a need to expand the team as we continue to increase the internal portfolio of solutions developed by the team.

The roadmap is an exciting mixture of greenfield projects and continuous improvement, upgrading our existing estate of applications to the latest technologies and architecture. Theres a wealth of experience within the team and theres always someone willing to offer their support and knowledge.

The team has grown significantly over recent years and as a result weve reorganised ourselves into smaller agile squads which each manage their own workstream and champion the business domains they work with.

Applications developed by the team are used through-out our business by all of our 30,000+ colleagues, so scalability and resilience are key to everything we do. Continuous integration and deployment have been fully adopted to automate code releases which gives our team more confidence when releasing code into production environments.

What you can expect from us

• A collaborative and informal environment.
• Managers and squad members who invest in your professional and personal growth.
• Passionate and imaginative technical teams to work and collaborate with.
• A forward-thinking leadership team that puts confidence in you and gives you the autonomy to deliver what the business needs.
• We encourage new ideas to help keep us moving in the right direction and have design authority meetings to give you the chance to excite us with your ideas.

In this role, you can expect to

• Use the latest cloud and web technology to build quality and innovative software solutions, including .NET 8, .NET Aspire, Typescript, Vue.JS and Playwright
• Work closely with your agile squad of developers, BAs and testers to collaborate on design
• Build greenfield, extend, or enhance existing functionality as well as building towards a new micro-app and micro-service platform.
• Help drive automation to enable rapid delivery of new features
• Follow our agile way of working by attending stand-ups, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and design and planning sessions.
• Work with the latest infrastructure offered by Microsoft Azure to implement your solutions, utilising CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code.

You should apply if

• You have a passion for tech and want to learn new things
• You value quality in the solutions you deliver.
• You enjoy working across the full stack to deliver applications in the cloud.
• You have experience with, or are keen to use modern JavaScript/Typescript frameworks
• You love to make things better for people who use your applications

Make a difference to your career, we expect a lot but youll get a lot back in return. We will help you grow and develop your career and give you the freedom to show that you really care.

Alongside this we can offer you:

• A very competitive salary with an excellent benefits package
• 25 days holiday, plus 8 days bank holiday
• Flexible working
• 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.

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