Senior Developer
Posted 4 days ago by Mountain Warehouse
Negotiable
Undetermined
Hybrid
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Senior Developer role at Mountain Warehouse involves joining the Buying & Merchandising Dev team to enhance systems for product planning, stock purchasing, pricing, and sales analysis. The position requires expertise in C#, SQL, and JavaScript/TypeScript, with a focus on both green-field and legacy projects. The team employs a collaborative approach with a strong emphasis on best practices, code reviews, and continuous improvement. Candidates should have a minimum of four years of relevant experience and be effective communicators who can solve complex problems.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain systems for product range planning, stock purchasing, pricing, and sales analysis.
- Utilize microservices architecture, Docker, Kubernetes, and Continuous Delivery with Jenkins.
- Implement Test Driven Development and RESTful API design.
- Collaborate with team members and participate in code reviews and pair programming.
- Coach or mentor junior team members and assist in technical planning/scoping of projects.
Key Skills:
- Minimum 4 years of experience in C#, SQL, and JavaScript/TypeScript in a commercial environment.
- Minimum 2 years of commercial experience with React.
- Knowledge of microservice design principles.
- Effective communication skills and ability to make pragmatic implementation decisions.
- Problem-solving skills for complex challenges.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Application Deadline: 31 July 2025
Department: IT
Location: London
Description
The development team at Mountain Warehouse is split into small teams, each looking after a different set of applications and using a Kanban approach to prioritisation. We are a collaborative team with a strong culture of code review, occasional usage of pair programming, lots of unit tests. We’re keen to write code following best practice and to continuously find ways that we can be even better. The work is a mixture of green-field and legacy work (much like any other mature organisation) mostly using C#, SQL Server, React & TypeScript, with a combination of monolithic and microservices architectures.
Key Responsibilities
We are looking for an experienced developer to join our Buying & Merchandising Dev team which is responsible for the systems used by the company to plan product ranges, make stock purchasing decisions, manage pricing & promotions, and analyse sales, stock & intake.
A selection of what we’re using across the department Let us know what you have experience of, we can train in the rest.
- Microservices architecture.
- Docker & Kubernetes in Azure.
- Continuous Delivery with Jenkins.
- RabbitMQ / MassTransit.
- Microfrontends.
- Test Driven Development.
- RESTful API design.
- GitFlow.
We Would Like To Meet Someone Who Is
- Minimum 4 years of C#, SQL, JavaScript/TypeScript to an advanced level in a commercial environment.
- Minimum 2 Year’s Commercial Experience Of React
- Produces initial results rapidly and iterate based upon feedback.
- Knowledge of microservice design principles – preferably with commercial experience.
- Effective communicator.
- Makes pragmatic implementation decisions and can fail fast if an approach is not working.
- Understands projects and project goals in depth.
- Solves challenging problems when no obvious solution is apparent.
Desirable experience / behaviours
- Coaching or mentoring more junior team members of the team.
- Technical planning/scoping of projects.
- Experience working in a retail organisation.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and benefits package
- Hybrid working, 3 days in London based office & 2 working from home
- Holiday allowance
- 50% staff discount & 25% for family and friends
- Pension scheme