Software Engineer

Working within an Agile development team, the Software Engineer is a key member of the software engineer team. Responsible for using technology to solve problems in an engineering design process. You may create or have responsibility to improve or invent software tools or applications across a wide and varying range of technologies and software languages.

This is a remotely based role offering the opportunity for a great work life balance. When it comes to IT, Toolstation is unique. 90% of all software that runs the company is developed and maintained in-house. Using open-source technologies, everything from our consumer website, our shop tills, to our warehouse stock control has been created from the ground up.

What you’ll bring:

Teamwork and collaboration – Recognises the implement, and maintain software applications importance of working collaboratively across the business. Knows how to get things done cross-functionally.

Communication – Communicates openly and effectively, ensuring that messages are clear and documentation for configurations, processes, and concise. Adapts content and style to help others troubleshooting procedures.

Drive and Motivation – Focuses on results and enhance security best practices, ensuring the desired outcomes and how best to achieve them. Takes ownership for completing tasks and gets the job done.

Resolution – Focus on resolving the issue at hand, without laying blame for cause, with a key focus on resolving customer impact.

Decision-making – Considers the information available, identifies options and makes timely and required information to resolve tickets and engineer well-reasoned decisions.

Problem solving – Anticipates problems and their on a regular basis and work together to track impact. They weigh up alternatives and arrive at objectives and manage workload.

Adaptability – Changes behavioural style or method of approach when necessary to achieve a goal; adjusts style as appropriate to the needs of the situation. Responds to change with a positive member to respond to outages and issues.

Planning and organising – Understands own and business priorities. Plans effectively and monitors progress towards achievement of plans. Investigates Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical possible roadblocks and develops contingencies to experience with demonstrable skills and examples of redirect tasks so momentum is not lost.

You will have – You will have extensive experience in PHP/Laravel, Experience of working with OOP, Experience of developing/integrating APIs.

What you’ll get

Toolstation. The story so far.

We’re one of Britain’s fastest growing multi-channel retailers of tools, accessories and building supplies. Backed by Travis Perkins plc, our freedom to operate as a nimble, entrepreneurial business means we’re now well established and have even bigger plans. The trade, home improvers and self-builders all trust us to deliver a lot more than tools. So, our colleagues in our Head Office and Contact Centre in Bridgwater, at our Distribution Centres in Middleton, Redditch and Daventry, and in our network of over 570 branches throughout the UK, work together to get the job done. And with plans to open another even more branches this year, we always have opportunities for great professionals who want to grow with us.