Engineering Careers

Roles and responsibilities

Most of your work will take place over two-week sprints, through a mixture of pair and mob programming. Both headphones-on solo coding and collaboration are encouraged, and there’s plenty of opportunity for teamwork during code review for merge requests, QA handover and defect fixing.

Coding time is prioritised, and we try to minimise your time spent in meetings as much as possible. You’ll attend scrums, retrospectives and sprint planning sessions, but we try to keep them dynamic and brief. We pride ourselves on having an open environment where engineers feel comfortable being honest about any issues they may be experiencing, so these sessions are truly valuable.

Taking the right approach

The ideal dunnhumby engineer loves to code. You’re tech focused, with a genuine passion for what you do. You enjoy using code to solve problems, and consider it a hobby or a passion rather than just a job.

Just like us, you take the time to do things correctly, with an end goal of creating high quality, long-lasting products rather than something that will require firefighting in the future. Our dedicated management team insulates our engineers from outside noise, making sure our lead times and schedules are respected. So, a life free from endless hotfixes isn’t just a pipedream.

You produce consistent results, take the time to do things right, and speak up if there’s something you need to satisfy your objectives.

You don’t have to be the best at your language. Anyone who’s bright, passionate, willing to tackle challenges head on, and eager to try new things will thrive in the dunnhumby engineering team.