Senior Software Engineer

Looking to work within a vibrant company, combining 25 years of industry expertise with ongoing investment in cutting-edge technology to drive future success? Seeking a role where proactivity is welcomed, with scope to develop and grow?

**Viking**have an exciting opportunity for a **Senior Software Engineer **to join our team based in **Milton Keynes.** You will join us on a**full-time, permanent** basis and in return, you will receive an **excellent salary and benefits package.**

We are Viking. We provide business supplies and services to help our customers work better - whatever their workplace. We are a single source for everything customers need to be more productive, including the latest technology, core office supplies, printand document services, business services, facilities products, furniture, and school essentials.

**About the role**:
As a **Senior Software Engineer,** you will act as a senior member of an engineering team developing the Viking e-commerce platforms. You will bring a positive attitude to inspire other team members to continually deliver high-quality, clean,performant and highly operable code whilst helping build a collaborative environment in which they feel safe to challenge.

Using your technical ability, you will mentor Junior Engineers and Software Engineers in your team to help them progress to the next level to ensure that progression and succession planning are in place.

Success in this role can be measured by your technical ability, feedback from Junior Engineers and Software Engineers on your mentoring and support and peer review from Principal Software Engineer(s) on your ability to independently create solutions anddeliver high quality, clean, performant and highly operable code.

**Your responsibilities as our Senior Software Engineer will include**:

- Contributing to the recruitment process, carrying out telephone screening and technical interviews
- Contributing to the learning and sharing culture
- Leading by example in creating repeatable, well-understood processes that can be automated where possible.
- Keeping abreast of new technologies
- Facilitating technical decision making within your team, steering decisions where necessary through sharing of the benefits of a particular approach
- Identifying improvements that will lead to the faster delivery of code without compromising quality engineering practices
- Contributing to the continuous improvement of the hiring and quality engineering practices
- Developing high quality, clean and performant code that is built with operability built-in by design
- Carrying out code reviews
- Assisting with the on-boarding of new software engineers in your team
- Supporting after-hours software deployments when required

**What we’re looking for in our Senior Software Engineer**:

- Good knowledge of e-commerce web development including web security, caching strategies, content delivery networks
- Strong understanding of Java 8
- Strong understanding of Spring Framework
- The ability to use JDK tools to collect data to analyse how Java code is performing
- Strong understanding of object-oriented design and design patterns
- Good knowledge of build tools and dependency management (Ivy, Maven, Gradle)
- Good understanding of distributed messaging systems (ActiveMQ, IBM MQ)
- Strong understanding of the testing pyramid (unit, functional, integration, system testing), TDD and BDD
- Good understanding of containerisation (Docker)
- Experienced at using relational databases and ORM tools (Spring, Hibernate)
- Desire to develop the Office Depot engineers into a world-class team
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- The ability to contribute to the interview process for software engineers
- The ability to contribute to the creation of a culture of collaboration, sharing and learning

Want to join our team? If you feel you have the skills and experience required for the **Senior Software Engineer **role, please click ‘**Apply**’ today and take your next step towards a career with Viking.