At Holland & Barrett, we empower our customers to live happier, healthier lives by becoming the leading global partner for personalised wellness journeys — adding quality years to life.

To achieve this, we're investing in a radical transformation of our business. That means building and evolving a best-in-class digital ecosystem, introducing innovative technologies, and bringing in top talent across areas like Digital Marketing, Technology, and Product.

The Team:

This role sits within our OCX Online vertical, specifically in the Basket & Checkout Team – a key part of our Core Transactional journey. The team is responsible for ensuring our customers enjoy a seamless and satisfying checkout experience, whether they're shopping on our website or mobile app.

Key focus areas include:

• Basket Detail page on both e-commerce site and mobile app

• Checkout flow and order confirmation pages

• Mini Basket displayed across the site

• Subscribe & Save functionality

As a Lead Front End Engineer, you'll play a pivotal role in the team – not just building and delivering solutions, but championing engineering excellence, influencing architectural decisions, and working closely with stakeholders to shape our digital experience.

You'll help lead the way as we continue to scale, transform, and innovate in the wellness space.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and Deliver: Design, develop, and maintain scalable, high-performing software solutions.

• Engineering Excellence: Write clean, maintainable code, applying SOLID principles and modern design patterns.

• Observability: Implement robust monitoring, logging, and alerting to proactively identify and address issues.

• Collaboration: Partner with product managers, designers, and engineers to align feature delivery with our product roadmap.

• Continuous Improvement: Take the lead in code reviews, technical discussions, and evolving development processes.

• DevOps Mindset: Own your code from development through to deployment, embracing CI/CD practices to ensure smooth delivery.

Communication & Teamwork

• Communicate complex technical topics clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Collaborate across squads to manage dependencies and foster knowledge-sharing.

• Proactively mentor and support team members, nurturing a culture of learning.

• Participate in incident reviews and foster a no-blame culture through root cause analysis and shared accountability

Essential Skills:

• Proven front end development experience using JavaScript/TypeScript, React, and React Native

• Experience with server-side technologies, ideally Golang

• Strong background in front end architecture, including Component Driven Design, Server-Side Rendering, and defining technical tickets (e.g. user stories, acceptance criteria)

• A focus on observability, including building dashboards, setting alerts, and tracking metrics

• Hands-on experience with modern CI/CD platforms such as GitLab, and containerisation tools like Docker and Kubernetes

• Knowledge of testing frameworks for unit, integration, and performance testing

• Demonstrated technical leadership – mentoring, influencing, and guiding engineers of varying experience levels

Desirable Skills:

• Exposure to AI/ML technologies or workflows

• Familiarity with API communication protocols such as REST, GraphQL, gRPC

• Experience working with micro-frontends and tools like Storybook

Why Holland & Barrett?

We're more than just a high street retailer — we're building the future of personalised wellness. As part of our transformation, you'll be joining a diverse, supportive team with big ambitions, the freedom to innovate, and the tools to succeed.

Together, we're shaping a healthier, happier world.

Ready to lead the change? Apply today and be part of something meaningful.

• Pension company contribution = 3%
• Incentive scheme up to 10% of annual salary, based on company performance.
• Your wellbeing is paramount so you can get away and take 33 Days Holiday per year.
• Private Medical Care (Self after 1 year)
• Learning and Development opportunity with Holland & Barrett is a great base for career development long term.
• Career progression.
• Refer and Earn Scheme - as we're growing you can earn money by referring people to join us from your network.
• Epic Extras gives you access to exclusive benefits, free advice and savings from a range of retailers and providers.
• Stay healthy with Discounted Products - from day one you'll get a 25% discount (on top of other promotions) when you shop at H&B on anything that you buy.
• We all need a little help sometimes, so we offer Free 24/7 Confidential Advice & Colleague Welfare.
• Mental Health First Aiders - we have lots of qualified Mental Health First Aiders because its all about your health & wellbeing.
• Stay active in the Onsite Gym at our Nuneaton Hub!
• We have colleague Reward and Recognition Schemes, so your hard work and loyalty won't go unnoticed.
• And many more!

We're passionate about helping every colleague thrive across all dimensions of wellbeing, and we're committed to having a diverse and inclusive workplace. In line with our EPIC values (Expertise, Pioneering, Inclusive, Caring), we embrace and actively celebrate all our colleagues' unique and varying experiences, backgrounds, identities and cultures - I am me, we are H&B. 

Holland & Barrett does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms/recruiters. Please do not forward resumes to our job alias, employees, or any other company location. Holland & Barrett is not and will not be responsible for any fees if a candidate submitted by a search firm/recruiter unless otherwise agreed with respect to specific open position(s).