Engineering Manager - Basket & Checkout - Holland & Barrett International Limited : Job Details

About the role:

At Holland & Barrett, we're on an exciting journey to become the world's leading health and wellness retailer. With a rich heritage and a growing global presence, we're redefining what wellness means for our customers—and technology is right at the heart of it.

As we grow our digital capabilities, we're looking for an experienced and passionate Engineering Manager to lead our Basket & Checkout squad. This team plays a vital role in our e-commerce experience, helping millions of customers every year complete their wellness journey with ease and confidence.

As Engineering Manager for our Basket & Checkout squad, you'll play a central role in owning the delivery of reliable, performant, and user-centric software. Working closely with Product and Tech leadership, you'll ensure our checkout experience is as simple and seamless as our customers expect.

Your responsibilities will include:

Technical Leadership

• Own and evolve the technical direction of the team, ensuring it aligns with our wider platform strategy.

• Lead architecture design and code quality practices, championing scalability, security, and modern engineering principles.

• Promote innovation and continuous improvement across tooling, development practices, and infrastructure.

People & Team Leadership

• Mentor, support, and grow a talented team of engineers—fostering a culture of trust, ownership, and continuous learning.

• Drive hiring, onboarding, and career development, helping your team thrive and perform at their best.

• Embed our EPIC values—Excellence, Passion, Integrity, and Care—in everything the team does.

Software Delivery

• Partner with Product Managers and Technical Program Managers to deliver against ambitious, customer-focused roadmaps.

• Lead sprint planning, manage team capacity, and balance priorities across features, tech debt, and operational improvements.

• Ensure robust CI/CD pipelines, testing frameworks, and monitoring systems are in place to support rapid, high-quality releases.

Collaboration & Communication

• Be the go-to technical leader for your area, clearly communicating progress, plans, and risks to stakeholders.

• Work cross-functionally with other squads to manage dependencies and deliver cohesive customer experiences.

• Represent the team in wider forums, ensuring engineering insights and feedback are heard and actioned.

Key requirements:

• 5+ years of engineering leadership experience, managing teams of 8+ engineers.

• A strong development background in JavaScript, Java or Kotlin (React or React Native experience is a bonus!).

• Proven success building and scaling distributed systems using modern cloud-native technologies (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, microservices).

• A deep understanding of agile methodologies, CI/CD, and DevOps culture.

• Strong architectural and problem-solving skills, with a hands-on mindset when needed.

• An empathetic and motivational leadership style—able to guide teams through ambiguity and change.

What's in it for you?

• A chance to lead a mission-critical squad at the forefront of our digital journey.

• Opportunities to grow and shape the technology vision of a globally recognised brand.

• A collaborative, inclusive environment where your voice and ideas matter.

• Hybrid working with flexibility, plus access to our London and Nuneaton tech hubs.

• A competitive salary and benefits package, including staff discount, wellbeing support, and more.

Ready to shape the future of wellness tech?

Join us at Holland & Barrett and help millions live healthier, happier lives—with technology that makes it all possible.

Apply now and take your next step in engineering leadership.

What we offer:

• Pension company contribution = 3%
• Incentive scheme up to 10% of annual salary, based on company performance.
• Your wellbeing is paramount so you can get away and take 33 Days Holiday per year.
• Private Medical Care (Self after 1 year)
• Learning and Development opportunity with Holland & Barrett is a great base for career development long term.
• Career progression.
• Refer and Earn Scheme - as we're growing you can earn money by referring people to join us from your network.
• Epic Extras gives you access to exclusive benefits, free advice and savings from a range of retailers and providers.
• Stay healthy with Discounted Products - from day one you'll get a 25% discount (on top of other promotions) when you shop at H&B on anything that you buy.
• We all need a little help sometimes, so weoffer Free 24/7 Confidential Advice & Colleague Welfare.
• Mental Health First Aiders - we have lots of qualified Mental Health First Aiders because its all about your health & wellbeing.
• Stay active in the Onsite Gym at our Nuneaton Hub!
• We have colleague Reward and Recognition Schemes, so your hard work and loyalty won't go unnoticed.
• And many more!

We're passionate about helping every colleague thrive across all dimensions of wellbeing, and we're committed to having a diverse and inclusive workplace. In line with our EPIC values (Expertise, Pioneering, Inclusive, Caring), we embrace and actively celebrate all our colleagues' unique and varying experiences, backgrounds, identities and cultures - I am me, we are H&B. 

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