Software Engineer

Job Title Software Engineer
Location Asda House
Employment Type Full time
Contract Type Permanent
Hours Per Week 37.5
Salary

Competitive salary plus benefits.

Category Software Engineering
Closing Date 22 June 2025

Engineering Excellence - Software Engineer (Jira/Confluence)

"Everything about Asda"

We are a values-led organisation. As such we encourage everyone to be open and honest. We work creatively and collaboratively, valuing everyone's input.

Our collaborative culture, the size of our business and our belief in the empowerment of the individual means opportunities at Asda are abundant.

We conduct £300m worth of transactions every week. Our website handles over 2 million transactions a month. We have more than 145,000 dedicated Asda colleagues ensuring that our customers are at the heart of everything we do.

"Everything you'll love"

• Starting 25 days annual leave per year plus 8 bank holidays - Making sure you take time for yourself and switch off

• 4 weekly pay - which means you get an extra payday a year

• Digital GP and Wellbeing sessions - Asda genuinely cares so we create a culture where our people can perform at their best, the physical health and mental wellbeing of all our people is very important to us

• Discount off your shopping at Asda and George - with extra discounts running throughout the year - really makes a difference, saving the colleagues an average of £700 a year

• Career development and apprenticeship and graduate schemes - we want our colleagues to excel and grow with our business. (Link to grad scheme on Asda page)

• Free city centre parking - you can also use it outside working hours

Plus, much more!

What You'll Love

We're looking for a Software Engineer with strong background in developing, implementing and supporting Jira & Confluence as well as general DevSecOps software development ability to be part of our Engineering Excellence team.

Our Mission: Increase efficiency and agility across engineering teams enabling them to mobilise quickly and deliver quality, secure, right first-time features for our customers at reduced costs.

Enable operations teams to pro-actively monitor and quickly report across critical systems.

A Software Engineer reports into the Engineering Manager and contributes to the delivery of our mission through a combination of design, build & implementation activity together with working alongside multiple engineering teams across the department, supporting them to adopt new ways of working. The role will involve strong collaboration with others - be it learning from examples of existing great engineering work, collaborating with others to create it or mentoring engineers to use it.

This role will initially focus almost exclusively on Jira, Confluence, Jira Service Management ways of working, development, configuration and support, and over time evolve to include the wider goals of the team.

Your Role

Jira, Confluence, Jira Service Management

• Administer software formulating technical solutions including Jira and its associated plugins

• Manage upgrades to the Atlassian toolset and associated plugins

• Manage the development of key system-wide customisations

• Train and guide various levels of users within the business

• Provide technical support to end users to help address system queries & issues

• Manage incident scenarios between vendor and the business

• Advanced Jira Project administration driven with an 'automation first' principal wherever possible

General

• Contribute to Licence management of Atlassian and other software

• Work with stakeholders to understand problems, analyse requirements, develop ideas and design & deliver solutions that enhance engineering productivity

• Design, implement, and maintain modern DevOps processes and tools to ensure seamless CI/CD pipelines for our engineering teams

• Collaborate with engineering teams to establish and promote best practices in code quality, unit testing, observability and deployment

• Deliver initiatives to improve system observability, incident response processes and operational efficiency

• Conduct technical reviews, mentor team members and provide guidance on adopting cutting-edge tools and technologies

• Help maintain an appropriate, rationalised engineering tool chain across the department - being involved in proof-of-concept reviews & tool rollout

• Champion a culture of continuous learning, experimentation and innovation within the department

What You'll Need

• Highly creative, pro-active, enthusiastic, conscientious, detail-oriented self-starter

• Highly resilient, employing a relentless can-do attitude in the face of adversity

• Able to present complex technical information to both technical and non-technical audiences

• Able to identify and manage risks through to resolution

• Be an advocate for strategy and work with different teams to implement

• Able to demonstrate creativity and innovation in applying solutions for the benefit of the customer/stakeholder

• Excellent collaboration, mentoring and stakeholder management skills

• Have experience working to an Agile methodology (e.g. XP, Kanban, Scrum, SAFe)

• Strong problem-solving skills: Ability to troubleshoot complex systems, identify bottlenecks, and implement robust solutions

• Extensive experience in DevOps practices: Expertise in automation, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and containerisation

• Strong coding abilities: Proficiency in at least one modern programming language (e.g. Python, Go, JavaScript) and scripting languages (e.g. Terraform, PowerShell, Bash)

• Expertise in monitoring and alerting tools: Hands-on experience with tools like New Relic or Azure Monitor and Azure App Insights

• Cloud platform knowledge: Deep familiarity with Azure cloud platforms including deployment, scaling and optimisation practices

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Proficiency with tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation for managing and provisioning infrastructure

• Reporting: Experience in reporting tools such as PowerBi, Tableau

• Access to professional development resources and training is provided

• We have active colleague teams, such as our Women in Digital & Tech team, that support women and other underrepresented groups in tech. We're committed to building a diverse and inclusive team and encourage applications from all backgrounds.

• If flexible working is important to you, then look no further! At Asda, we are proud of our culture and our commitment to flexible working. This role is Leeds based in Asda House with the flexibility to work from home several days a week depending on workload.

If you have any questions, then please email

Everything you'll love

To ensure we balance moments where we know we need to collaborate together and the need for flexibility, Asda has a hybrid way of working with a minimum 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices.Over and above this, each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots.

You will also get an excellent benefits package including:

• Discretionary company bonus
• Company pension up to 7% matched
• 15% colleague discount in store and online
• Free access to wellbeing services such as Wagestream, 24/7 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental cash plans and a 24/7 employee assistance helpline, alongside discounts across a range of services and activities, from airport parking, enhanced to theme parks and cinemas.
• Asda Allies Inclusion Networks - helping colleagues to make sure everybody is included and that our differences are recognised and celebrated
• Excellent parental leave policies, including maternity & adoption leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, neonatal care leave, and support for those doing fertility treatments.

We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves