Senior Digital Engineer (Java)

About the Role

A Senior Digital Engineer at Love2shop, you will play a key role in designing, building, and maintaining digital products that power our customer experiences across web and mobile. You'll work at the intersection of engineering excellence, customer centric design, and help us deliver reliable, intuitive, and compliant digital journeys for millions of users.
You'll be part of a collaborative, cross functional engineering team, contributing to the full development lifecycle: from shaping technical solutions and writing high quality code, to ensuring our platforms meet the regulatory, data protection, and security standards expected of a leading payments and rewards provider. This is a hands on role for someone who enjoys solving complex problems, mentoring others, and building products that genuinely make a difference.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain robust, high-quality web and mobile applications using Java and React Native, applying SOLID design principles throughout.
• Help shape the architecture and technical direction of digital products, with a focus on scalability, performance, and long-term maintainability.
• Contribute across the full software development lifecycle from shaping and scoping features through to production delivery within an agile team.
• Work closely with product managers, designers, and QA engineers to take features from concept to production.
• Lead and participate in code reviews, championing engineering best practice and constructive feedback.
• Mentor junior engineers and foster a collaborative, knowledge-sharing team culture.
• Write secure, compliant code that meets regulatory, data-protection, and payment-security standards (e.g., PCI DSS, GDPR).
• Diagnose and resolve complex technical issues across the stack.
• Support and improve CI/CD pipelines, continuous delivery, and test automation.
• Drive continuous improvement in engineering processes, tooling, and ways of working.
• Keep documentation accurate and up to date for systems, processes, and key technical decisions.
• Provide out-of-hours production support on a rota basis.

Essential Skills and Experience

• Hands-on experience building and maintaining cross-platform mobile applications using React Native.
• Strong backend development experience using Java and Spring, including working with large or mature codebases.
• Experience deploying and managing Java applications on Apache Tomcat and/or IBM WebSphere application servers.
• Solid understanding of secure coding principles and experience working with customer data, payment processing, or other regulated environments.
• Demonstrable experience with RESTful APIs and integrating third-party services.
• Strong understanding of web performance, accessibility (WCAG), and responsive design principles.
• Solid experience across the testing landscape, including unit, integration, and end-to-end testing using tools such as Jest, Detox, Cypress, Playwright, Selenium, JUnit, and Mockito with a strong commitment to test-driven development.
• Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines, version control (Git), and modern deployment practices.
• Familiarity with security best practices relevant to web and mobile applications (e.g. OWASP Top 10).
• Excellent communication skills, able to articulate technical decisions clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience working within Agile or cross-functional delivery teams.

Additional Skills and Experience

• Experience with Salesforce including Apex and LWC.
• Native mobile development experience using Kotlin (Android) or Swift (iOS).
• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Familiarity with containerisation and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Knowledge of microservices architecture and distributed systems.
• Experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases.
• Exposure to payment gateways, digital wallets, or loyalty platforms.
• Understanding of DevOps practices and infrastructure-as-code tools.
• Experience with performance optimisation and monitoring tools.
• Background in mentoring, technical leadership, or supporting team capability growth.
• Familiarity with UX/UI principles or working closely with design teams.

Benefits

• 25 days holiday per year, plus bank holidays
• Company pension scheme
• UK healthcare cover
• Electric Car Scheme
• Staff Everyday Benefits card 10% discount with multiple retailers
• Corporate travel scheme with Merseyrail, Northern Rail, Arriva and Transport for Wales
• Free tea and coffee
• Faith room and dedicated Halal and Kosher kitchen facilities
• Family friendly leave
• 2 days community volunteering per year

As a disability-confident committed employer, we welcome everyone into a work environment where success is attainable for all, regardless of disability, age, race, religion, gender identity, or sexual orientation.

Contract type: Permanent | Hours: MondayFriday, 35 hours per week | Salary: Competitive |

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