“Ocado Technology, powering the future of retail through sustained disruptive technology innovation...”
Ocado Technology is putting the world’s retailers online using the cloud, robotics, AI, and IoT. We develop the innovative software and systems that power Ocado.com, the world’s largest online-only grocery retailer as well as the global ‘’. With everything from websites to fully autonomous warehouse that we design in-house, our employees need to be specialists in a wide range of technologies to help drive our business.
We champion a value-led culture to get our teams working at their very best and to help create a collaborative working environment that our people love. ofTrust, Autonomy, Craftsmanship, CollaborationandLearn Fasthelp drive our innovative culture.
Job Purpose
This role forms part of the team that underpins Ocado Technology's technical focus, being a key contributor to your team’s delivery. In this role, you will be a go-to person in your team, with great expertise, problem solving and knowledge sharing. You will be working with others to find great solutions and supporting technical decision making in your team.
Voice is an area of growth within OSP. Currently serving customers for two of our partner retailers, with more to be added through 2021. You will have the opportunity to learn new technologies, overcome challenges that come from multi-lingual partners, collaborate with Data Science to deliver personalised solutions and build a best in class product.
Key Customers/Stakeholders
Engineering Manager, Engineering Team Lead, Senior Product Manager, Product Manager.
Role & Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities:
Leading & Influencing:
Contributetowards technical decisions in your team.
Helpset standards and ways of working in your team.
Supportyour team to deliver, contributing effectively to team continuous improvement.
Responsiblefor your personal delivery towards team goals, managing and prioritising your workload effectively.
Actively demonstrate the Ocado Technology Principles in the way you work.
Design for Future
Contribute to technical discovery, sharing constructive ideas and critique.
Participate in design activities andcapture learningeffectively.
Design solutions with the Ocado Tech engineering principles in mind.
Deliver for Today
Deliver business value that addresses today’s requirements, contributing to solving the related technical problems.
Participate in the full product delivery lifecycle.
Collaborate with, and review the work of others within your team.
Identify and seek to reduce waste in our ways of working.
Extract, gather and present data on the operation of your Product. Use this data to support future design and delivery.
Execute with Quality
Familiarise yourself with the team’s domain and ways of working to adhere to and improve your team’s quality standards.
Research and recommend industry practices that could benefit your team’s delivery.
Implement and conduct testing in line with team standards.
Find and fix security vulnerabilities where appropriate.
Use and enhance diagnostics for your Product, in order to resolve faults.
Support
Deliver solutions to ongoing support queries.
Provide 1st and 2nd line product support.
Participate in out of hours support rota where agreed.
You may be asked to perform tasks as required by management deemed as a reasonable request. This job description is a summary of the typical functions of the role, not an exhaustive or comprehensive list of possible role responsibilities, tasks and duties and is subject to review. The responsibilities, tasks and duties of the job holder might differ from those outlined in the job description and other duties, as assigned, might form part of the job.
Knowledge, Skills and Experience
Essential
Experience with Java, or similar programming languages
A fundamental understanding of automated testing
Familiarity with continuous delivery concepts
Strong collaboration skills that will allow you to work effectively alongside a cross-functional team
A desire to learn from others in order to improve your breadth and depth of knowledge.
Computer Science (or related subject) degree
Good spoken and written English
Desirable
Conversational Engine development experience
What we can offer you
A relaxed, international, talented, creative and friendly environment, where we will provide you with the best tools to develop amazing stuff. We invest in our employees, ensuring we provide them with the best in-house and external training programs available. We also really encourage people to attend conferences and be involved in the local developer community.Flexible working hours with short Fridays
Reduced hours in August
Private Health Insurance
Life Insurance
Ticket Restaurant
Ticket Transport
Ticket Kindergarten
Flexible WFH policy
Share-saving scheme
Gym membership discounts
Fresh fruit, snacks, tea and coffee
Monthly social events
Safari Books - O’Reilly account
Table football, board games and Nintendo Switch
Tech Talks and internal trainings
Developer exchange programmes between centres
English, Spanish and Catalan language courses
We are growing rapidly, making it a very exciting time to join, as we are currently at a brand new office in the 22@ district - the thrilling tech area of Barcelona.
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Ocado is an equal opportunities employer and as such makes every effort to ensure that all potential employees are treated fairly and equally, regardless of their sex, sexual orientation, marital status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion, age, disability or union membership status.
