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Lead Full Stack Developer - MVC | Cloud
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Job Description
The Role
While you’ll have heard our name, there’s a lot you probably don’t know about NEXT. Like how we create most of our systems ourselves – whether it’s a website, mobile app or application. What’s more, we’re growing. Fast. And it’s the kind of growth and investment that is exciting for everyone in our business.
Our eCommerce websites and apps have grown steadily over the past 10 years to become one of the largest online retail platforms in the UK. We currently sell to 70 international markets, offering our 6 million active customers a personalised shopping experience and the ability to purchase from a wide range of products using multiple delivery methods and payment types.
What You’ll Take On
As a Lead Developer you will be working in an agile team and working alongside other Developers to lead and build upon our quality centric eCommerce platform. You will be responsible for developing the user interface of our website platform and will have the opportunity to design architecture and select tools, to improve our skill set and improve our platform in line with the future road map. The enterprise platform is currently used to drive numerous sites, serving millions of users worldwide.
As a passionate developer with a keen mindset to improve, you’ll enjoy working as part of a team. Comfortable with modern technologies and tooling, you’ll use best practices to improve the user experience and efficiency of development teams. You will help provide development support to internal users of our Content Management System, as well as offering out-of-hours cover during seasonal events and busy trading periods. You’ll also use your expertise and experience to help us continually improve our processes and working practices, actively enabling the department to become as efficient and effective as it can be.
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What You’ll Bring
Essential
- Proven expertise in MVC architecture and frameworks (e.g. Spring MVC, ASP.NET MVC (C#) or similar), with solid understanding of design patterns and scalable application architecture
- Strong full-stack development experience across front-end (HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript/TypeScript, modern JS frameworks) and back-end (Java, C#, Node.js or equivalent) technologies
- Deep understanding of cloud-based solutions and deployment, ideally with Azure including CI/CD pipelines and containerization (Docker/Kubernetes)
- Demonstrated experience developing and optimizing high-performance, large-scale applications
- Strong programming experience in Java, JSON, JavaScript, and Freemarker Templates (or equivalent templating technologies)
- Knowledge and practice of UI performance optimization, responsive design, and cross-browser compatibility
- Commitment to writing clean, maintainable, modular, and testable code following best practices and modern engineering principles
- Proven ability to mentor and lead developer in the team, review code effectively, and guide technical decisions
- Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and debugging skills
- Comfortable collaborating closely with Product Owners, Designers, and Stakeholders to turn business requirements into high-quality technical solutions
Desirable
- Understanding of web accessibility standards (WCAG), usability, and responsive UI/UX design principles
- Track record in developing, deploying, and maintaining cloud-native applications.
- Experience in Agile/Scrum environments, contributing to sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives
- Familiarity with DevOps practices, automated testing, and monitoring tools
About Us
You know Next, but did you know we’re a FTSE-100 retail company employing over 44,000 people across the Next group. We’re the UK’s 2nd largest fashion retailer and for Kidswear we’re the market leader. At the last count we have over 450 stores, plus the Next Online and it’s now possible to buy on-line from over 80 countries around the world! So we’ve gone global!
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About The Team
- 25% off most NEXT, MADE*, Lipsy*, Gap* and Victoria's Secret* products (*when purchased through NEXT)
- Company performance based bonus
- Sharesave scheme
- On-site Nursery available; OFSTED outstanding in all areas
- 10% off most partner brands & up to 15% off Branded Beauty
- Early VIP access to sale stock
- Access to fantastic discounts at our Staff Shops
- Restaurants with great food at amazing prices
- Access a digital GP and other free health and wellbeing services
- Free on-site parking
- Financial Wellbeing - Save, track and enhance your financial wellbeing
- Apprenticeship - Grow and develop on the job whilst gaining a qualification
- Direct to Work - Discount online and instore, collect your items the next day for free from your place of work or local store
- Support Networks - Access to Network Groups to empower and celebrate each other
- Wellhub - Discounted flexible monthly gym memberships, with apps, PT sessions and more
Conditions apply to all benefits. These benefits are discretionary and subject to change.
We aim to support all candidates during the application process and are happy to provide workplace adjustments when necessary. Should you need support with your application due to a disability or long-term condition, feel free to get in touch with us by email headoffice_careers@next.co.uk (please include 'Workplace Adjustments' in the subject line), or call us on 0116 284 2486 and leave a voicemail.
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