Software Engineer (Mid-Level)

Software Engineer (Mid-Level) – Bravissimo IT

37.5 hrs per week, Full Time, Hybrid (minimum 1 day per week in Leamington office)

Salary: 35-50K

About Bravissimo

Part of Wacoal Europe Group, Bravissimo is an award-winning, multi-channel lingerie retailer on a mission to uplift women. Since 1995, our purpose has stayed the same: to inspire our customers to feel supported, celebrated, and confident every day.

We have 26 shops in the UK alongside a thriving ecommerce community, which offers a wide range of beautiful lingerie, swimwear and nightwear for women who wear a D to L cup, giving them so much choice.

We are on an exciting journey of growth and are loving every minute of it!

Bravissimo Benefits

• Up to 25 days holiday
• The opportunity to buy up to 5 additional days holiday each year
• Access to free and confidential 24/7 employee support from Retail Trust
• 50% discount on full priced items for you, your family & friends, up to a limit
• Healthcare Cash Plan for you and up to 4 children through Medicash
• Employer pension contributions up to 6%
• Life Assurance
• Great training and learning resources
• Long service awards after 5 years’ service
• Access to new and upcoming products, with the opportunity to provide feedback
• Access to discounts at many retailers, day out destinations and gyms through Retail Trust and Medicash
• Free parking at Bra HQ

About The Role

We're looking for a mid-level Software Engineer to join our Back of House engineering team and help build, support and evolve a range of business-critical applications. Working across a range of Bravissimo applications, you'll develop APIs, backend services and event-driven solutions that support key business areas including product management, customer acquisition, ordering and fulfilment.

Bravissimo is in the middle of a major digital transformation programme, with plans to transition our legacy .NET estate to new service-based architectures. We're evolving towards a full-stack engineering environment, with TypeScript, Node.js, React and AWS at the heart of our modern applications and services.

You'll contribute to modern cloud-based solutions while also supporting established business-critical applications as part of our ongoing technology modernisation programme.

This is a hands-on development role for someone who enjoys writing quality software, problem solving and continually developing their technical skills. It requires a blend of backend and frontend skills, but with a heavy focus on the backend. You'll work collaboratively to shape technical solutions and deliver meaningful business outcomes.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support, maintain and improve existing business applications, preparing them for the digital transformation.
• Build and support scalable applications using TypeScript, JavaScript and Node.js.
• Design, develop and maintain APIs, backend services and integrations, and cloud-based solutions.
• Work with databases and data integrations across multiple systems.
• Contribute to event-driven and API-led architectures.
• Troubleshoot production issues and implement sustainable solutions.
• Participate in the ongoing modernisation of legacy systems and platforms.
• Contribute to code reviews, technical discussions and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, refinement, reviews and retrospectives.

Technical environment

Target technology stack and tooling:

• AWS microservice capabilities
• REST APIs
• Event-Driven Architecture
• Grafana
• GitLab
• Jira

Experience with every technology isn't expected, but a willingness to learn and develop new skills is essential.

About You

You're a competent, self-motivated engineer, able to demonstrate your skills and provide examples of applications you've contributed to. Experience in a retail environment would be beneficial but is not essential.

You'll also:

• Take pride in delivering well-thought-out solutions.
• Build good working relationships across teams and contribute constructively to technical discussions.
• Ask questions, challenge assumptions where appropriate, and stay curious about better ways of doing things.

Essential Skills

• Strong coding skills using TypeScript, JavaScript or a comparable modern language.
• .NET development
• Building and supporting production applications, APIs and services.
• Comfortable supporting and evolving existing business-critical applications while contributing to the development of modern cloud-native solutions.
• Experience with relational databases and SQL.
• Understanding of system integration patterns, APIs and event-driven architectures.
• Familiarity with cloud computing concepts and practical experience using AWS or Azure.
• Using Git-based version control in a collaborative development environment.
• Experience diagnosing and resolving issues within live production systems.
• Experience working in an Agile delivery team.
• Strong testing mindset, including unit testing, regression testing and providing clear evidence that solutions are working before work is considered complete.

Desirable Skills

• AWS services, particularly serverless technologies such as Lambda.
• Designing and building cloud-native applications.
• Containerisation and Kubernetes.
• Observability, monitoring and logging platforms such as Grafana.
• CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment practices.
• GitLab experience.
• Experience supporting or modernising legacy business applications.
• Experience with distributed or event-driven systems.
• Comfortable using AI-assisted development tools to support productivity, learning, code quality and problem-solving, while applying sound engineering judgement and taking accountability for the solutions delivered.

Interested?

If this role sounds like a perfect fit for you, we’d absolutely love to hear from you! Just click the ‘Apply Now’ button below and you’ll be taken to a new page where you can send us your application.

Please include your CV and a cover letter telling us why you’d love to join Bravissimo and what you’d bring to the role. We really do read every single one - honestly! and we can’t move forward without it, so take this as your moment to tell us your story (as we love getting to know you) and your why!

If this opportunity makes you feel excited (we hope it does!), don’t wait too long to apply as we may close the advert early if we receive lots of applications.