Senior Native React Engineer - App Core - Holland & Barrett International Limited : Job Details

Holland & Barrett International is striving to be the world's leading health and wellness business. Currently the largest in Europe and growing in other markets, the health and wellness of our colleagues and customers is at our heart.

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Technology at H&B 

We're on a mission to make health and wellness a way of life for everyone – and technology is at the heart of our future plans to become a leading omni-channel retailer. We're building some great products, and we're investing in the rapidly advancing technology that is helping our customers meet their health and wellness goals. We're delivering more speed in the retail experience, greater convenience in service and delivery, and increasing personalisation in our brand and product propositions, both in-store and online.

Collaborative, working at pace and always with a strong customer focus in everything we do. We love the cloud, we prefer building the right solutions over buying generic ones, and we embrace automation and testing in all things software, infrastructure and data.

The Role:

Some of the essential day to day tasks for this position are listed below. It's important to highlight that this is an evolving role, with multiple new, challenging tasks arising all the time. The position sits within our BX Online team (which run the online ecommerce verticals) 

• Design and deliver functional and quality cross-platform software independently 
• Collaborate and contribute to the various features being built as part of the product roadmap in a team 
• Write tests, contribute to test framework, review and approve code changes.
• Mentor new hires, champion processes and set standards for fellow engineering team members.
• Write robust, quality software and peer-review in a CI/CD culture with strong support for iterative development cycles with an evolutionary design
• Deliver quality software of medium-high complexity within the functional areas
• Design and implement software using modern patterns of development for functionality and scalability within their functional team
• Implement unit, integration and performance tests into a testing framework 

Skills and Experience:

• 3+ years production expertise in React Native and Typescript
• Working on production apps day to day
• Strong understanding of Functional React Components (hooks) and designing for performance
• Keen interest in latest tech
• Experimentation and desire to push the boundaries of React Native
• Enjoys architectural discussions, problem solving,  and has designed or influenced the architecture of reliable, monitored and maintainable platforms
• Experience creating developer tooling, to improve DX and ship fast and safely
• Strong collaboration and communication skills  

Our benefits:

• We operate virtually. Remote, hybrid or in our tech hubs – we work in an agile environment where you can thrive.
• We offer a 10% incentive scheme, based on company  performance – when we win, so do you
• Learn from the best – at H&B you'll have the opportunity to enhance and expand your skills and shape your career
• We want you to produce your best, so we provide you with the best tech equipment
• Stay healthy with a 25% discount on all product ranges to help you live well
• We like to recognise and celebrate our people with our Colleague Recognition Scheme, so your hard work won't go unnoticed

About H&B

Holland & Barrett is one of the nation's most loved and trusted brands, known for offering quality health food, vitamins and supplements all sold by highly trained and qualified advisors.

Our culture respects equality, values diversity and encourages individuality – because this allows our people to unlock their potential and be their best. We welcome everyone who shares our EPIC values regardless of background, culture, disability, ethnicity, gender identity or sexual orientation. 

We are a growing and pioneering business.  Our diverse and EPIC teams enable us to push boundaries and accomplish the extraordinary.  As we continue to transform, we need more of the brightest and best minds to join us to turn our vision into a reality.  

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