Who are We?
The Mobile Fulfilment Systems department at Ocado is at the forefront of developing cutting-edge automation solutions for both in-store and warehouse online order fulfilment. We leverage distributed backend systems, intuitive mobile applications, and advanced autonomous mobile robots to enable fast, scalable, and cost-effective order collection.
As part of our Mobile Fulfilment Systems department, we at In-Store Fulfilment (ISF) design and develop distributed cloud-based systems, PWA mobile applications, and web technologies to automate the fulfilment of online customer orders at scale.
What is ISF?
In-Store Fulfilment (StorePick) is an end-to-end cloud-based solution that enables stores to rapidly and efficiently fulfil customer orders – enhancing the shopping experience while reducing operational costs.
We are operating in more than a thousand stores, spread across 4 continents and 11 countries. More than 300,000 customer orders go through our system weekly.
What is Store Operations?
Store Operations is a web-application that provides dashboards for the store managers to track their store’s performance across different areas, execute operations to manage the fulfilment process and resolve issues, and configure settings and layout for the store. Here’s a short summary of our tech stack:
- For the front-end development we are utilising TypeScript & React and adopting concepts like micro-frontends, component and visual regression testing via Cypress, OpenGL specification via Three.js, and TailwindCSS.
- On the back-end side we are using Java & Spring Boot.
- The storage solutions that we have are PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, and Redis.
- Some of the AWS resources that we manage are SNS/SQS, Lambda, ECS, S3, CloudWatch.
- For DevOps, we have Gitlab CI/CD pipelines, docker containers, and localstack.
As a Full-Stack Software Engineer in our Store Operations team, you will:
- Design, build, and maintain scalable, high-performance web applications.
- Constantly ensure solutions meet quality standards by utilizing best practices in testing, code quality, monitoring, and alerting.
- Contribute to the long-term architectural and product vision by collaborating with engineers, product managers, and designers.
- Participate in all stages of the software development life cycle as part of a cross-functional team that follows agile practices.
- Continuously and proactively improve our processes, ways of working, and tools.
- Participate in our on-call rotation to support our production services.
- Coach and train new and existing members of the team in their growth.
We will be looking for:
- A positive can-do attitude.
- Experience with back-end development using Java and Spring Boot.
- Experience with front-end development using JavaScript/TypeScript and React or similar framework.
- Excellent knowledge of software engineering best practices and processes.
- Curiosity and enthusiasm to learn new technologies and ability to evaluate alternatives, make tradeoffs, and articulate decisions.
- A product- and customer-focused mindset – the technology we use is a tool to deliver the best value for our customers.
- Familiarity with system resilience patterns and approaches.
- Strong communication and presentation skills.
Bonus points for hands-on experience in:
- Cloud-based infrastructure and managed services (AWS and/or GCP). We use SQS/SNS, Lambda, Redis, Postgres, S3, Kinesis, etc.
- DevOps (CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, observability tools, resource management).
- Creating and improving UX or UI design.
- Practical understanding of SQL and NoSQL database management and design.
- Implementing distributed high-availability systems in production and at scale.
- Using and configuring monitoring and alerting tools.
We offer:
- A hybrid office attendance policy (40/60)
- 30 days of “Work from anywhere” program
- 30 days of annual leave
- Share plan program
- 300 BGN monthly allowance for wellbeing or flexible expenses
- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave policy
- Medical plan including health & dental coverage
- Life and disability insurance
- Employee assistance program
We also have regular divisional socials, sports clubs, not to mention the Ocado Technology Academy for a packed schedule of courses, conferences, and events. Ready to shape the future of online grocery technology? Join us and build the systems that power global-scale fulfilment – driven by world-class tech.
