Lead Java Engineer

HOLLAND AND BARRETT; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Holland and Barrett is seeking a Lead Java Engineer to join their BX Online Loyalty Team. In this role, you will lead innovative projects as part of a major tech transformation, defining customer-focused software solutions while mentoring your team for success. Exciting benefits include a strong incentive scheme, a generous holiday allowance, and health initiatives to ensure colleague wellbeing.

Benefits

Pension company contribution = 3%

Incentive scheme up to 10% of annual salary

33 Days Holiday per year

Private Medical Care after 1 year

Learning and Development opportunities

Career progression

Refer and Earn Scheme

25% discount on products from day one

Free 24/7 Confidential Advice & Colleague Welfare

Onsite Gym at Nuneaton Hub

Qualifications

• Fluent in Java (11+) and Spring Framework.
• Strong understanding of REST and RDBMS like Postgres.
• Experience with Docker and AWS.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and delivery of cross-functional software.
• Mentor team members and drive best practices.
• Collaborate with teams to build customer-first features.

Skills

Java

Spring Framework

SQL

Docker

AWS

REST APIs

Asynchronous programming

Tools

Gitlab

Junit

Kubernetes

Job description

About the role:

We're looking for a Lead Java Engineer to join our BX Online Loyalty Team, driving forward a bold, innovative new loyalty proposition for H&B customers.

You'll be joining us at an exciting moment: the final stages of a multi-year tech transformation. Next up? Building and scaling a new world-class Loyalty experience.

You'll play a hands-on, strategic role in defining and delivering scalable, customer-focused software - and mentoring your team along the way.

What You'll Be Doing

• Lead the design and delivery of cross-functional software in a fast-paced, agile environment
• Work autonomously, owning key components and solving complex technical challenges
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Product, UX, QA) to build great customer-first features
• Mentor and upskill your squad, sharing expertise and driving best practices
• Stay on top of new technologies, and bring innovative thinking to the team
• Communicate complex ideas clearly across technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Think strategically about your work's business impact and how it helps our customers thrive
• Champion security, compliance, and performance in everything you build

Key requirements:

• Fluent in Java (11+) and the Spring Framework specifically SpringBoot or similar (Quarkus, Micronaut)
• Strong understanding of HTTP and REST as an architectural style to build APIs.
• Fluent with asynchronous programming techniques and frameworks (in Java).
• Fluent in SQL and experience with RDBMS like Postgres and Oracle.
• Experience with Docker and docker-compose.
• Exposure to AWS specifically S3, Aurora, ElasticCache
• Exposure to modern CI/CD platforms like Gitlab (or similar GitHub Actions, CircleCI)
• Understands the importance of monitoring and proactive in resolving critical issues.
• Fluent in testing frameworks Junit, RestAssured
• Desirable:
• Exposure with monitoring and alerting platforms. Datadog, PagerDuty, Graphana, Prometheus
• Exposure in Python Scripting
• Exposure in deployment platforms like Kubernetes and tools like Helm.

Ready to shape the future of health and wellness through tech?

Apply now and help build something that really matters.

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 we offer 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.


Holland & Barrett does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms/recruiters. Please do not forward resumes to our job alias, employees, or any other company location. Holland & Barrett is not and will not be responsible for any fees if a candidate submitted by a search firm/recruiter unless otherwise agreed with respect to specific open position(s).