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Principal Engineer (TypeScript, AWS etc) at JD Sports, Manchester, 6 Months, £600 per day (Outside IR35)

£600 per day
6 Months or more

Contract Description

Job Description

Posted Monday, 9 February 2026, 01:00
Established in 1981 with a single store in the Northwest of England, the JD Group is a leading omni-channel retailer of Sports Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms with our colleagues working in stores across several retail fascias in many markets around the world.
 
JD Sports Fashion Plc was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1996 and has been a FTSE100 publicly quoted company since 2019 and continues to grow in the UK and internationally.
 
We want to be the leading global omnichannel retailer in the sports and outdoor industry. To be a part of this successful company and help us to achieve this you will have the desire to ingrain our strategic goals of being a people-led, innovative and customer-focused organisation which provides operational excellence whilst identifying new areas of growth as part of our day to day objectives.
 

 

Principal Software Engineer (Contract)

 

 

Location:

JD Sports, Bury, Gtr. Manchester. BL9 8RR.

Requirement:

4 days in office, 1 remote (with flexibility)

Contract Duration:

6 months

Rate:

£600 per day (Outside)

 

 

 

 Role Overview:

 

JD Sports is iconic high street presence with over 4000 stores in 45 countries. 

 

If you thrive around a physical whiteboard with smart people solving complex problems, this is one of the most exciting tech roles in the industry.  If you don’t want to collaborate in the Bury office, this role isn’t for you.

 

Following a recent re-platforming to the latest cutting-edge MACH architecture, you will be solving problems at an unprecedented scale, influencing technical standards and architecture at pace.

 

This is a hands-on role; you will know what good looks like and help lay the technical foundations, maintain a high engineering bar and drive engineering excellence in product squads. 

 

Key Responsibilities:

  • Lead on technically excellent incremental designs to deliver value at pace.
  • Uphold the highest possible technical standards in our serverless and microservices architecture.
  • To obsess about documentation of best practice in Confluence.
  • Bring together architecture, product, UX, QA and internal customers.

 

Required Experience:

  • Deep expertise of Typescript and GraphQL
  • Deep expertise in AWS, Serverless, and Containers
  • Experience of AWS Cognito, AWS Config, Git Actions beneficial
  • Design patterns and best practices for an event-driven architecture.

 

We know our colleagues work tirelessly to make JD Sports the success it is today and in turn, we offer them some amazing benefits including staff Discount On JD Group and other brands within the organisation and personal development opportunities to learn and develop at work.
 
Thank you for your time
 
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