IT | Dixons Carphone

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E-shops are rolling because of us

Our IT department counts over 160 heads that work with technologies like PHP, JavaScript, Oracle, Linux/Windows or Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse. During our highest peak, our platform can process up to 6.7 orders per second and our websites are visited by a quarter of the UK inhabitants. We often attend various specialized conferences—either as participants or speakers, sharing our knowledge and experience. We also organize several IT community meet-ups in Brno and our colleagues are very supportive of that as well.

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Located in the centre of Brno, the CoE is well-situated, well-equipped, and very pleasant to work at.

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Available positions

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QA Engineer - In Store Experience

Dixons Carphone plc is Europe's leading specialist electrical and telecommunications retailer and services company. We employ over 40,000 people in 9 countries, with almost 3,000 stores across our various brands. The Group’s retail brands include PC World, Currys and Carphone Warehouse in the UK and Ireland, Elkjop and Elgiganten in the Nordic countries, and Kotsovolos in Greece. We are one of the market leaders in the UK & Ireland, Nordics and Greece.

Site Reliability Engineer

Multicultural development team working on a SOA e-commerce platform which serves as a basis for one of the most popular online shops with electronics in UK – Currys and PC World. The platform handles more than 7,000,000 unique visitors per day and processes 8 orders per second during the busiest season. You will be a part of the application management function and you will also be in constant contact with our Architecture team and Tech leads as well. Your main responsibility would be contribution on the improvement of our e-commerce platform and looking into new technologies and approaches.

Cloud Engineer

Dixons Carphone is Europe's leading specialist electrical and telecommunications retailer and services company.The current Brno Infrastructure/DevOps/SRE team is expanding to become playing much wider role within Group IS organization to arrange IT Infrastructure/DevOps Shared Services function be responsible for building and support the organisation's non prod & prod (eCommerce platform) servers, databases, storage, CI/CD tools and end user infrastructure to meet business requirements, adhering to company’s technical standards and security policies including DevOps best practices and Cloud enablement.This infrastructure comprises multiple Infrastructure as a Service offerings that include compute, storage, network, security, backup, load balancing, operating systems, alerting, monitoring, orchestration, automation, cloud based hosting – some services for the environments are provided in cooperation with suppliers/vendors.Why should you choose our team? Our System administration & DevOps team currently consist of 20 members and supporting mission critical eCommerce platform (Prod and all Non-Prod env’s) and other important platforms for company’s business.As Brno Infrastructure/DevOps/SRE team is expanding its responsibility to take new ownership for the services across more business areas & European countries we are just extending our senior team to offer an opportunity for skilled people to bring their experience to work.

DevOps & SRE Engineer

Dixons Carphone is Europe's leading specialist electrical and telecommunications retailer and services company.The current Brno Infrastructure/DevOps team is expanding to become playing much wider role within Group IS organization to arrange IT Infrastructure/DevOps Shared Services function be responsible for building and support the organisation's non prod & prod (eCommerce platform) servers, databases, storage, CI/CD tools and end user infrastructure to meet business requirements, adhering to company’s technical standards and security policies including DevOps best practices and Cloud enablement.This infrastructure comprises multiple Infrastructure as a Service offerings that include compute, storage, network, security, backup, load balancing, operating systems, orchestration, automation, cloud-based hosting – some services for the environments are provided in cooperation with suppliers/vendors. Why should you choose our team? Our System administration & DevOps team currently consist of 20 members and supporting mission critical eCommerce platform (Prod and all Non-Prod env’s) and other important platforms for company’s business.As Brno Infrastructure/DevOps team is expanding its responsibility to take new ownership for the services across more business areas & European countries we are just extending our senior team to offer an opportunity for skilled people to bring their experience to work.

Senior PHP Developer - Findability

Multicultural development team working on a SOA e-commerce platform serving as a basis for one of the most popular online shops with electronics in the UK – Currys and PC World. The platform handles more than 7,000,000 unique visitors per day and processes 8 orders per second during the peak season.We are continuously improving the platform and looking for new challenges. Currently we are working on complete automation of checkout process, we focus on test automation improvements and we are preparing for the next steps in continuous integration. We are agile with the vision of becoming a multichannel leader on the EU market.Why should you choose our Findability team?The ability to search for the best fitted products is the key functionality for every e-commerce site. That’s the reason why we build our own search platform on top of PHP, Elasticsearch, AWS (CloudWatch, ECS, Lambda Functions). The team is currently small (2 Devs + 1 QA + Product Owner) but very effective, mostly thanks to the strong DevOps mindset and tooling - AWS, Docker, Gitlab CI, Terraform). There is also strong focus on quality and automation - PHPUnit, Behat, Selenium.The team is currently owning the search platform (algorithm) and back-office management. Team cooperate with other product teams mainly Product Experience - they provide the needed product data and consume the results (through API) in listing page and search results page. We are currently working on improvements of the algorithm and introducing the personalisation into the algorithm. Long term vision contains more JS / TS / UI work and make the team fully E2E. E2E product teams is our overall strategy.

Solution Architect

Dixons Carphone is Europe's leading specialist electrical and telecommunications retailer and services company. Our Centre of Excellence in Brno is the specialist internal provider of financial, transactional, HR, logistics and IT services to the Dixons Carphone Group's UK & Ireland and Nordic retail businesses.Why should you choose our team?Architecture team in Brno consists of 5 Architects and they closely cooperate with development and business teams across Brno, London and Aveiro offices. Our team consisting of Solution and Application Architects focuses on the solution design and preparation work for our development teams around products. We solve problems ranging from implementation of large-scale projects like building a new website where we focus more on how the functionality fits together end to end, up to smaller things where we focus a lot on technical details of the implementation. We also advice our leadership and share knowledge with other members of development team. We try to utilize our knowledge and experience of each member in the best way, some of us focus more on high level design but others use their deep knowledge of e.g. mobile app development or API integration to help the team translate the solution into practice.The technologies and stack we use are widely spread from on-premise infrastructure in dedicated datacenters with internally developed applications to cloud-based services and externally developed systems running as SaaS. We are looking for a technically-oriented colleague who will own a part of the e-Commerce platform and will design solution for our growing teams. What can you achieve in our team? You can participate on changing one of the biggest commerce platforms in Europe covering not only online but also in store sales. There are many technical challenges which make the work diverse and require complex attitude in decision making. You will join a well-established company which has stable background and is willing to invest into new technologies. You will interact with Senior Leadership (up to C-level), Enterprise Architects and experienced Product Managers or Program Managers which can give you unique experience beneficial for your future career.

PHP Developer

Multicultural development team working on an SOA e-commerce platform which serves as basis for one of the most popular online shop with electronics in UK – Currys. The platform handles more than 7,000,000 unique visitors per day and processes 8 orders per second during the most busy season. We are continuously improving the platform and looking for new challenges. Currently we are working on complete automation of checkout process, we focus on test automation improvements and we are preparing for next steps in continuous integration. We are agile with the vision of becoming a multichannel leader on the EU market.

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