Software Engineer, OSP

About Ocado

Ocado was established in the UK over 16 years ago and listed on the London Stock Exchange in July 2010. We are the world’s largest dedicated online grocery retailer with over 580,000 active customers shopping with us today. Our objective is to provide our customers with the best shopping experience in terms of service, range and price, which builds a strong business and delivers long term value for our shareholders.

We have developed a unique end-to-end operating solution for online grocery retail based on proprietary technology and IP, suitable for operating our own business and those of our commercial partners.

The world is changing fast, driven by different shopping habits and ever more advanced technology for the consumer. Grocery is the largest of all retail segments and is moving online. Moreover, the rapid growth of shopping using mobile devices opens new opportunities. We are well positioned to take advantage of these long-term structural trends for the benefit of our customers, partners and shareholders.

Your qualification

• Título de Licenciado o Grado en Ingeniería Informática (A good degree in Computer Science or related subject)
• Good spoken and written English
• You’ll have strong OOP and software design skills
• Extensive experience in Java
• Passionate about developing high-quality enterprise software
• Happy to take an active role in supporting the business needs
• Passion and understanding for TDD

Will be a plus

• A fanaticism for clean code!
• Comfortable working in an Agile team
• Experience working in a continuous delivery environment
• A mastery of git!
• Knowledge in AWS/Cloud environments

What we offer

A relaxed, international, talented, creative and friendly environment (phew!) 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 Scheme
• Free fresh fruit, snacks, tea and coffee
• Monthly drinks events
• Table football
• English and Spanish language courses

Additional details

We use Java, relying on Spring and Akka to deliver our projects. We use AWS for all our new deployments. We embrace agile development techniques, and run our projects as Scrum or Kanban projects as part of a cross functional team. Alongside the ownership and ongoing development of all new functionality, there is particular focus on performance, scalability and maintainability. We are looking for a dedicated Java Developer to join our team as we continue to push the boundaries of online shopping.