Job Role: Software Engineer
Reporting to: Lead Software Engineer
Location: Head Office, White City Place, West London
Contract type: Full Time, 37.5 hours per week
About Us
ME+EM is one of the UK's fastest-growing luxury fashion brands. As a direct-to-consumer business we operate in a truly omnichannel way, with an extremely successful online store, monthly mailings and stores in London, Edinburgh and concessions in Harrods and Selfridges. Our exciting growth continues in spring 2024 with the opening of our first US stores.
At ME+EM we are an entrepreneurial, creative, and passionate group of people. We work hard, are enthusiastic to learn and are not afraid to take risks. Everyone contributes to our success at all levels, and that precisely what makes being a member of the team so rewarding.
Our office and stores are always busy and fast paced, but we work just as hard to make sure it's fun, with social activities and biannual parties. We pride ourselves on being approachable, supportive, and welcoming and ensure that everyone's hard work is rewarded. It takes all these things to build a strong, successful business and our door is always open to new talent ready to contribute to our growth and evolution.
About the Role
We're hiring a Software Engineer (Full Stack) for ME+EM. With rapid domestic and international growth, we're embarking on an ambitious digital transformation and building an internal Digital Platform team to drive this change. This role offers the chance to shape our future tech stack and play a key part in evolving our architecture. The Digital Platform team owns and continuously improves our customer-facing digital stack, working across two autonomous squads to deliver exceptional customer experiences. We're looking for someone with a strong track record in building scalable web apps using modern tech stacks, excellent people skills, and the ability to collaborate with stakeholders and develop engineering talent.
Job Responsibilities
* Contribute to the technical architecture of our web app, end to end, and understand the optimal way to achieve required outcomes.
* Break down complex technical requirements into smaller, manageable requirements.
* Be an advocate for crafting quality, performant, scalable solutions.
* Own our development and CI/CD pipelines, be able to evolve those pipelines to improve velocity while maintaining quality.
* Coach and grow other developers in the team.
* Ensure all systems have the appropriate level of automated tests and monitoring.
* Participate in a paid On-Call rota.
Skills
* Knowledge of React/Next.js/Node.js.
* Expert in creating DRY, documented, maintainable, extendable, secure systems.
* Experience delivering web apps at scale.
* Experience building out and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
* Experience working with multidisciplinary squads.
* A solid understanding of agile software delivery and continuous improvement.
* A passion for delivering simple, scalable solutions (often to complex problems).
* Excellent attention to detail.
* An ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
Useful Experience
* NextJS (app router, static rendering, turbo, mono-repo, Vercel)
* Typescript
* Jest
* Storybook (and Storybook testing)
* Playwright
* Contentful
* Algolia
* Datadog (or similar monitoring tools)
* GitHub actions
* Akamai
* GraphQL
Employee Benefits
* 33 days annual leave for full time employees (25 days holiday + 8 bank holidays)
* A day off to celebrate your birthday.
* Pension Scheme
* Group Life Insurance
* Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
* Length of Service Award
* Refer a Friend Scheme
* Staff uniform for retail employees
* Generous Staff and Friends and Family Discount
* Annual Volunteer Day
* Cycle to Work Scheme
* Tech Scheme
* Eye Care Vouchers
* Real Living Wage Employer
* Employee led committees
* Social events and biannual parties
* Enhanced maternity and paternity package after 2 years of service.
ME+EM is an equal opportunities employer committed to fostering and preserving a culture of diversity, equality, and inclusion in our workforce. As an equal opportunities employer, we do not discriminate against applicants based on race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. We believe that diversity enriches our workforce and strengthens our organisation. Therefore, we encourage minorities, LGBTQ+ candidates, and individuals with disabilities to apply for opportunities within our company.
Please email [email protected] should you require any adjustments needed to take part in this recruitment process.
Please note, due to the large number of applications we receive, we can only reply to those that are successful to the next stage.
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