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Junior Performance Engineer
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Dunelm
Junior Performance Engineer
Leicester
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Description
Home. There’s no place like it. And there’s no feeling like helping people create the joy of feeling truly at home.
At Dunelm, that’s what we do.
We’re the UK’s number one choice for homewares because we make home life lovelier for our customers. And the caring and supportive culture we’ve created makes this a place you’ll feel right at home too.
Quality Chapter
You might not think it, but remaining the first choice for savvy homeware-shoppers involves some pretty advanced tech. We’ve recently made our whole company serverless, making us the largest user of AWS Lambdas in Europe (second in the world), and we’re bringing more and more tech into our stores.
As a Quality Chapter at Dunelm, our aim is to enable and support our ability to deliver high quality value, in the right way, based on our customer needs. With a focus on having the right balance of speed and quality to frequently achieve this.
To be able succeed our Quality Chapter is made up of 60+ quality advocates (QAs), in various roles, embedded into our 20+ crews and across our 6 domains to enable & implement continuous quality & testing through whole team ownership
Performance Engineering Team
Dunelm is committed to ensure the best customer and colleague experience. Hence performance of the real time systems like e-commerce websites and Point of Sale are critical. Being part of performance engineering team, you will protect and improve customer and colleague experience by evolving validation and performance optimisation/tuning capabilities in the Technology function.
We are focused on our vision that is “To help improve customer and colleague experience by having optimum time critical operations and high confidence in system availability”. We thrive to achieve our mission that is “We innovate, support and enable the platform and the technology squads to deliver an efficient, scalable, total retail system”.
We are on a continuous journey of achieving good page experience signal (Google) and peak readiness (scalability) for critical tech.
This role can be based out of our London or Leicester offices. We operate a hybrid working policy.
If you’re excited about joining our growing Quality chapter, then please apply now for our immediate attention.
Dunelm is committed to becoming a fully inclusive business that is representative of our customers and locations. We recognise the value in diversity and welcome applications from all candidates regardless of sex, age, race, religion, ability, gender or sexual identity, socio-economic background or education. We are committed to making Dunelm a place where everyone can enjoy a successful career and have systems in place to support all our staff. We are seeking applications from candidates who share our values and celebrate diversity in all its forms.
Life at
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Culture overview
We're here to help our customers create the joy of feeling truly at home. Join us and you'll find our caring and inclusive culture makes this a place you'll feel right at home too. Learn Wherever you work with us and in whatever role, you'll have every opportunity to keep on learning and keep on growing. Thrive We'll take care of you, and make sure your everyday needs are met, so you can focus on doing a great job and being the best version of you. Belong We embrace diversity in all its forms. We'll celebrate the individual you are and value the unique contribution you bring. Colleague Networks All of our colleagues have the opportunity to be part of our four colleague networks. These are Disability & Neurodiversity, LGBTQ+, Gender Equality and Ethnicity & Race. Each network has co-chairs and an exec sponsor who work closely with us to ensure that we are a workplace where everyone feels supported, celebrated, valued and heard. A chance to give something back We're serious about our role in society. Each of our stores is partnered with a local charity and has its own community Facebook page. And we offer our Pausa Cafés for free to local community groups. We're also proud partners of the mental health charities, Mind (UK and Wales), SAMH (Scotland) and Inspire (Northern Ireland). And each year, we'll give you a day's paid leave to support a charity that matters to you. Work your way We have adapted our ways of working to make sure everyone can feel at home wherever they work. For many colleagues at our Head Office in Leicester and our Central London hub that now includes working on a hybrid basis, combining days in the office with time spent working at home or elsewhere across the business.
Employee benefits
Bonus Scheme
Childcare Vouchers
Flexible Working
Free Parking
Laptop
Learning Allowance
Life Insurance
Pension
Private Healthcare
Share Options
Wellbeing Programme
Office vibe
Birthday Off
City Centre
Hackathons
Office Dog
Open Plan
Social Events
Location
Tech at
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Leadership
John Gahagan
Chief Technology and Information Officer
Tech overview
Our Tech, Digital and Data teams are transforming literally every aspect of our business – from the way we manage and make use of our data, to the relationships we share with our customers. Already, their impact has been felt across the business, and indeed by our customers. But this is just the start and we know there are bigger opportunities ahead. Check out our tech blog for tales behind our talented teams: https://engineering.dunelm.com/ Keep on growing Join us on the tech side and you'll have access to a huge array of learning and development opportunities, including a variety of internally created workshops and externally accredited courses. We also have a substantial tech-specific budget to fund e-Learning licenses, conference visits, resources, and qualifications, plus dedicated mentors, well-being buddies and a wide range of network groups to support you as you progress.
Engineering principles
Agile Process
Code Reviews
Communication and collaboration
Continuous delivery
Continuous Development
Continuous integration
Infrastructure as code
Mentoring
Micro services
Pair programming
Scrum
Test Driven Development
Unit testing
Company tech stack
javascript
aws-lambda
graphql
react
typescript
jest
nodejs
sql
python
java
Dunelm
Junior Performance Engineer
Leicester
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