Multi-brand home improvement retailer with 2,000+ stores across Europe
Kingfisher operates eight retail banners (B&Q, Castorama, Brico Dépôt, Screwfix, TradePoint, Koçtaş) across Europe with 78,000+ employees and a 10,000+ headcount. The tech stack reflects a mid-modernization phase: legacy SAP and ATG platform rewrites underway, while engineering is actively hiring (77 open roles) to build internal developer platforms and rewrite the dotcom-plus commerce layer. Stack adoption of Kotlin Multiplatform signals a push toward cross-platform mobile (iOS/Android via Swift/Kotlin) and simplified deployment across banners.
Notable leadership hires: Product Lead, Quality Engineering Lead, Quality Engineering Chapter Lead, Property Head, Sector Head
Kingfisher is a public home improvement retailer serving consumers and trade professionals across eight European countries via physical stores and e-commerce. The group operates 2,000+ locations under six distinct banners, each with separate operating models. Core operational challenges include stock availability visibility, legacy platform modernization (ATG, SAP components), and packaging sustainability. Recent strategic focus areas span a greenfield loyalty platform, multi-brand deployment infrastructure, merchant onboarding onto marketplace channels, and SDLC friction reduction.
Kingfisher runs SAP (ERP), Magento (commerce), GCP and AWS (cloud), Cisco/Palo Alto/F5 (networking), PHP/Python/Kotlin/Swift (application development), GitLab/Jenkins (CI/CD), and Zscaler (security). Currently adopting Kotlin Multiplatform for mobile development.
Active projects include internal developer platform, multi-brand deployment, dotcom-plus platform rewrite, greenfield loyalty platform, KMP mobile initiatives, SAP modernization, and merchant marketplace onboarding. Also addressing legacy ATG platform replacement and SDLC friction reduction.
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