Junior Backend Engineer

Lush Handmade Cosmetics is a global enterprise focused on producing creative and indulgent cosmetics. As a Junior Backend Engineer, you will contribute to backend services and tooling that support the Global business, including developing custom software and integrating with third-party solutions. 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 TypeScript development experience, proficient in the native libraries and able to 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 Have experience building GraphQL APIs with Apollo federated GraphQL or Hive Gateway experience as a bonus Have working experience of application packaging and deployment Some knowledge of Docker would be ideal Company Overview Founded in 1995 by six co-founders—Mark and Mo Constantine, Rowena Bird, Helen Ambrosen, Liz Bennett, and Paul Greeves—Lush began as a small cosmetics shop in Poole, Dorset, UK. It was founded in 1995, and is headquartered in Poole, Dorset, GBR, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is