Junior Software Engineer

OFFICE Leeds, Albion Street, England, United Kingdom

• Category: Software Engineering

Description

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WHO ARE WE?

Iconic British brand ghd is a global leader in high end professional hair styling tools and the UK’s number one recommended styling brand. Loved by stylists and consumers, loved by press, and loved by the people that work for the brand! 

Merging science and innovation, with luxury beauty and style; ghd combines cutting edge technologies and beautiful designs to create the most technically advanced hair tools in the world. ghd tools deliver “safer for hair” heat styling that have become an essential part of the daily lives of professional hair stylists and consumers globally.

Renowned for game changing innovation and superior performance, at ghd we are on a mission to transform lives with the power of a good hair day!

LOCATION

This role will be based in our Leeds office, and we offer a hybrid working pattern of 3 days in the office and 2 days WFH.

ABOUT THIS ROLE

We’re looking for an energetic Junior Software Engineer with the ability to drive the successful delivery and support of enterprise-grade integration solutions and software support. 

While you will be early in your development career, we will help provide training and guidance to shape you into a subject matter expert. You will need to be a self-starter willing to commit to learning new technical skills and principles.

This is a technical expertise role that requires close interaction with business leaders in understanding requirements/use cases, scheduling and proposing solutions. 

Reporting to the Director of Integrations, you will work with a broad range of technologies, contributing to the continued growth and success of ghd.

JOB ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop, test and deliver software/integrations to provide highly scalable and reusable solutions.
• Follow the full development lifecycle through to production support.
• Proactively triage and resolve project or BAU-related issues.
• Create knowledge-based articles and documentation to help other members of the development team.
• Undertake continuous service improvement to identify process and technical changes that can enhance system and platform stability or efficiency.
• After an appropriate onboarding period, take part in the out of hours support rota.

REQUIREMENTS

Essential:  

• Experience using integration platforms like Snaplogic, Mulesoft or other IPaaS solutions. SAP BTP expertise would be very beneficial.
• Knowledge of SOAP/XML/JMS/JSON, high level understanding of REST principles, and REST and SOAP APIs.
• Experience in building APIs using Swagger or Open API Specification.
• High level understanding of HTTP protocols.
• Functional knowledge of program scripting such as JavaScript, Python, SQL, Java etc.
• Excellent analytical and verbal communication skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Knowledge of API Management architecture and API Lifecycle management.

Desirable:

• Applied knowledge of agile, iterative, and waterfall development processes.
• Exposure to asynchronous Architecture.
• Exposure to Azure cloud platform

VALUES

We at ghd are proudly committed to our Company Values and aim to attract and retain employees who live our Values. 

• Collaborative – We work together to create the extraordinary. 
• Creative – We foster creativity & excellence to create value for our brands and business.
• Courageous – We are agile, entrepreneurial & we own our future. 
• Connected – We stay connected and ensure we are always consumer first.

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Company

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GHD

Our commitments anchor us to what is truly important. They give us insights into the best ways to partner with clients like you to solve the world’s biggest challenges. Commitment is how we grew from a small engineering practice in Melbourne, Australia, in 1928 into a global professional services company today with over 11,000 employees in 160 offices on five continents.

We stand shoulder-to-shoulder with you to make water, energy and communities sustainable for generations to come. This is a commitment for our children, your children, and all those who come after, and is the vision and the purpose behind all our efforts.

No matter where our work takes us around the planet, whether we’re partnering on a local initiative or a global infrastructure project, we’re helping create lasting community benefit. And that’s why our work is more than just a job — it is an unshakable belief in the future we are building.

Our employees own our business. Our projects, like our people, are diverse and global. We take the long view of the climate crisis, geopolitical shifts, industry disruption and even technological advances. Our success in growing GHD over nearly a century gives us the experience to help you unlock opportunities and protect against future shocks, without compromising your competitive edge.

Working with GHD means partnering with our innovative, multidisciplinary, and globally-connected team. Our commitment is to help you go beyond expectations and deliver sustainable outcomes. We are constantly evolving to fulfil that commitment, and we're ready to work with you to transform the areas where you work, live and play.