Job Specifications
Job Title: Group Cloud Applications Engineer – Wacoal/Bravissimo IT
Location: Leamington Spa & Desborough – Hybrid (minimum 2 days per week in the office, 1 day in Leamington office plus 1 day in Desborough office)
Contract Type: 37.5hrs per week, Permanent contract
Salary: £40k-50k
About Wacoal & Bravissimo
Wacoal Europe is an industry leading manufacturer of lingerie and bra-sized swimwear with a rich heritage, strong international presence & an impressive portfolio of brands – Wacoal, Fantasie, Freya, Elomi and Goddess. We cater for all women with a size range from a 28” – 52” back and A - K cup.
Bravissimo is an award winning, multi-channel lingerie retailer on a mission to uplift women since 1995. We have 25 shops in the UK alongside a thriving ecommerce community, which offers a wide range of beautiful lingerie, swimwear and nightwear for women who wear a D to L cup, giving them so much choice. Our purpose of inspiring customers to feel supported, celebrated, and confident runs through our people and our channels to our customers.
In late 2024, Bravissimo was acquired by Wacoal Europe and with a similar purpose, we are on an exciting journey of growth together.
Benefits
Up to 25 days holiday
The opportunity to buy up to 5 additional days holiday each year
Access to free and confidential 24/7 employee support from Retail Trust
50% discount on full priced items for you, your family & friends, up to a limit
Healthcare Cash Plan for you and up to 4 children through Medicash
Employer pension contributions up to 6%
Life Assurance
Great training and learning resources
Long service awards after 5 years’ service
Access to new and upcoming products, with the opportunity to provide feedback
Access to discounts at many retailers, day out destinations and gyms through Retail Trust and Medicash
Free parking at Bra HQ
About The Role
We are looking for a Group Cloud Applications Engineer to join our agile team and help us to develop a new ecommerce platform as well as providing ongoing support and development of our e-commerce platforms, cloud integrations and business capabilities across the group of businesses.
You will be helping us build event-driven Lambda consumers using Node.js and TypeScript, Designing and evolving canonical data models for products, inventory, pricing, and orders.
We will be looking at you being able to consume and publish events via Amazon EventBridge as well as Ingesting large files from S3 (CSV / JSON) and fanning out events.
You will also be responsible for persisting operational state in DynamoDB using scalable PK/SK patterns and integrating with third-party APIs (REST & GraphQL). We will also be looking for you to be able to design for retries, replays, and idempotency as well as adding logging, metrics, and tracing to make systems observable.
Working closely with other engineers to keep the platform clean, testable, and evolvable. You will get involved across the full lifecycle of our projects - design, implementation, testing, release, support and ongoing enhancements. You will have a real voice to contribute your ideas and innovation to create growth and opportunity within the business.
We are open-minded and forward-looking, evaluating the best tool or technology for the job. We share insights on new technologies, approaches to delivery or specific code we’ve seen, and we’re enthusiastic and passionate about the field we work in.
This is a Hybrid role, with a mix of remote working and time spent in our Leamington and Desborough office every week.
About You
You’ll be a competent and self-motivated Cloud Applications engineer, able to prove your skills and provide examples of applications you've contributed to; any retail experience would be of interest.
Must-Have Experience
JavaScript / TypeScript (production backend experience)
Node.js in serverless or service-based environments
AWS Lambda and event-driven execution
Amazon EventBridge (custom buses, fan-out patterns)
Amazon DynamoDB
Partition/sort key modelling
GSIs and access patterns
Amazon S3 for file ingestion
Event-driven architecture
At-least-once delivery
Retry and failure handling
Infrastructure as Code
Terraform or CloudFormation/SAM
Automated Testing
Git-based workflows and code reviews
Nice-to-Have Experience
Any of these are a bonus:
Shopify or other commerce platform integrations
GraphQL APIs
Workflow tools (e.g. n8n)
JavaScript (React)
MongoDB
Observability tooling (CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, X-Ray)
ECS / Fargate
Schema validation (JSON Schema, Zod, etc.)
Large CSV or batch-processing pipelines
Monorepos (Nx, npm workspaces, Turborepo)
Don’t worry if you don’t tick every single box - we don’t expect you to know all the technologies we use. What really matters is your ability to understand concepts quickly, work with fresh ideas in an agile environment and contribute as appropriate.
We’re looking for someone who is passionate about technology, hungry to learn with us and keen to share your f