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We're looking for Associate Engineers to join our engineering teams and help shape the future of digital experiences across Sainsbury’s, Argos and Habitat.\nAs an Associate Engineer, you'll work alongside experienced engineers in a collaborative, agile environment, contributing to the design, development and support of modern technology solutions. You'll gain hands-on experience across websites, mobile apps, cloud platforms, microservices and event-driven architectures while continuously developing your technical skills and engineering expertise.\nThis is an excellent opportunity for engineers early in their careers who are excited to learn, experiment, and grow within a large-scale technology organisation.\nWhat you'll be doing\nContributing to the design, development and support of scalable technology solutions and customer-facing products.\nBuilding and enhancing websites, mobile applications, APIs, microservices and event-driven systems.\nWorking with technologies such as C# .Net, React and Next.js, MongoDB and SQL.\nLearning and applying cloud-native technologies including Kubernetes and major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure and GCP).\nSupporting the engineering lifecycle from development through to deployment, maintenance and decommissioning.\nCollaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality solutions that meet customer and business needs.\nContributing to technical roadmaps and engineering best practices.\nContinuously improving your technical knowledge and exploring emerging technologies.\nEssential Criteria\nCommercial experience or strong academic background in software engineering or computer science.\nExperience programming in at least one modern language or framework such as C# .Net, React, Next.js, JavaScript.\nSolid understanding of software engineering principles, design patterns and development best practices.\nAwareness of cloud technologies, CI/CD pipelines and modern software delivery approaches.\nKnowledge of Agile delivery methodologies and collaborative ways of working.\nStrong problem-solving skills with a curiosity for learning and experimenting with new technologies.\nPassion for building solutions that deliver value to customers.\nExcellent communication and teamwork skills with a willingness to learn from and support others.\nDesirable Skills\nExposure to cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or Google Cloud.\nKnowledge of containerisation technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.\nExperience working with APIs, microservices or event-driven architectures.\nUnderstanding of DevOps principles and automation.\nPersonal projects, internships, placements or open-source contributions demonstrating technical capability and enthusiasm for engineering.\nWhat We Offer\nColleague discount across Sainsbury’s, Argos and Habitat.\nAnnual bonus scheme.\nCompetitive pension plan.\nGenerous holiday allowance.\nSpecial offers and discounts on gyms, restaurants, holidays and retail.\nOngoing learning, mentoring and career development opportunities.\nFlexible and hybrid working arrangements that support a healthy work-life balance.\nReady to start your engineering career with one of the UK's largest tech teams?\nApply today and help us build technology that serves millions of customers every day while developing your skills alongside talented engineers in a supportive, innovative environment.\n We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. Think about the scale it takes to feed the nation. The level of data, transactions and variety involved. Then you’ll realise this is a modern software engineering environment, because it has to be. We’ve made significant investment in the standards and principles that shape how we work. We iterate, learn, experiment and champion ways of working such as Agile, Scrum and XP. So you can look forward to exciting opportunities across everything from AI to reusable tech. We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer, so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new - whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them:\nStarting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to get 10% off at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat after 4 weeks. This increases to 15% off at Sainsbury’s every Friday and Saturday and 15% off at Argos every pay day. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 10% of salary, depending on how we perform. \nYour wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance, and you can buy additional holiday. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, pay advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an employee assistance programme.\nMoments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave. \nPlease see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).","description_format":"text","description_chars":5861,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Flexible schedule","Hybrid work"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United Kingdom","iso":"GB","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Commerce","Transportation & Logistics","Logistics"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-03T20:39:37Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":61,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.812,"p_room":0.75,"age_days":6,"expected_fill_days":8,"reasons":["conf:5","velocity","win:late","comp:junior,brand"],"computed_at":"2026-11-05T05:54:30Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/sainsburys-associate-net-engineer-retail-12m-ftc","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/sainsburys-associate-net-engineer-retail-12m-ftc.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-05T10:22:56Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":13204,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-06T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":2631165},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=2631165"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fsainsburys-associate-net-engineer-retail-12m-ftc"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fsainsburys-associate-net-engineer-retail-12m-ftc"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fsainsburys-associate-net-engineer-retail-12m-ftc"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/sainsburys-associate-net-engineer-retail-12m-ftc\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fsainsburys-associate-net-engineer-retail-12m-ftc"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3704766}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"sainsburys.co.uk","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3704766},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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