Junior Backend Developer

Application Deadline: 15 June 2025

Department: Digital

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: London - Head Office

Compensation: £26,000 - £35,000 / year

Description

Location: UK Hybrid / Poole / London (Min 2x week in office)

Diversity matters. We are building a brand that represents the people of the world. It’s what you do that counts, and we are always looking to expand perspectives and voices to shape our future.

Who we are: You might know us as the inventors of the bath bomb, but there’s more to this great-smelling, partly employee-owned, family-run company than pioneering cosmetics. We believe our business should put more back into the world than it takes and demonstrate that capitalism can be a force for good. The Living Wage Foundation’s statement 'a hard day’s work deserves a fair day’s pay' is one that we are proud to commit to in the UK. As an accredited Living Wage employer, we put our people first and fight cruel practices like animal testing, promote regeneration, and show that it is what’s inside that counts - whether that’s an ingredient in a product, or the minerals in a smartphone.

The Team: Lush Digital leads digital strategy for Lush across online, retail & manufacturing globally, creating, developing and supporting the tools that drive the business. From design, artwork & photography to engineering, systems & data, we support all of Lush’s digital needs.

The Role: As a Junior Backend Developer, you will contribute to backend services and tooling that support the Global business. Your responsibilities will include developing custom software, including our REST APIs, GraphQL subgraphs, extending open-source software like Saleor, ERPNext, and integrating with third-party solutions like Power BI, CloudSQL. We endeavour to provide innovative solutions for bespoke LUSH use-cases. This role would suit a candidate who is passionate about developing high-quality, performant products which are suitable for use in a global business.

Please note: We may close this vacancy early if we receive an overwhelming response or our business requirements change.

Key Responsibilities:

• Write clear, maintainable code that will scale across projects and distributed development teams.
• Collaborate with engineers, QAs, designers, and partners to solve interesting and challenging problems for delivering scalable technology worldwide.
• Refactor, review and maintain existing enterprise application code bases ensuring scalability, performance and security are taken into consideration, building new features to support the growth of global business.
• Actively research and implement innovative techniques and features to enhance the development process.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise:

• A TypeScript-first developer who is proficient in the native libraries and can demonstrate a genuine interest in TypeScript coding philosophy and practices.
• Able to translate product or business requirements into technological initiatives.
• Able to autonomously debug and resolve issues.
• Comfortable writing SQL queries.
• Have a very good working knowledge of git.
• Have experience building web applications using a web framework like Express, Hono, Nest.
• Have experience building GraphQL APIs with Apollo federated GraphQL experience as a bonus.
• Have working experience of application packaging and deployment.
• Some knowledge of Docker would be ideal.

Benefits:

• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• 6 months of full pay for parental leave (primary caregiver must qualify for SMP)
• Enhanced paternity leave*
• Bonus scheme
• Day off for weekday birthdays
• Holiday purchase scheme
• 50% discount on Lush products and spa treatments
• Cycle to work scheme
• Discounted rail and bus season tickets
• Employee assistance programme
• Financial childcare support on return to work*
• We’re 10% Employee Owned - all colleagues play a role in protecting our ethics, our independence, contributing ideas for the future and share in the rewards of success when the company is doing well.
• Support groups, film nights, yoga, meditation sessions and much more
• *Tailored gender affirming care *qualifying period/hours required

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