Job Specifications
Job Title: Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack React/Next.js/Node.js)
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. In addition to a thriving global digital presence, we operate flagship stores in London and Edinburgh, concessions within Harrods and Selfridges, and have recently expanded with new store openings in the U.S.
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 Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack) to join ME+EM’s established Digital Platforms team. Following the successful completion of our digital transformation, we’re now focused on scaling our platform, optimising customer experience, and driving continuous improvement across our architecture and engineering practices. This is an opportunity to help evolve a modern, high-performing tech stack, shape our engineering culture, and lead initiatives that improve both our product and delivery pipelines.
The Digital Platform team owns the entire customer-facing digital stack, and is able to continuously improve our digital platform in a scalable, reliable, agile way. The team currently consists of two multidisciplinary autonomous squads, responsible for crafting best in class customer experiences across our customer facing apps. The successful candidate should have a proven track record of building out scalable web apps using modern technology stacks. They should have excellent people skills, both when liaising with stakeholders across the business and developing the engineering talent within the team.
Responsibilities
Contribute to the technical architecture of our web app, end to end.
Break down complex technical requirements into smaller, manageable requirements.
Collaborating with Product Managers and stakeholders to manage expectations by providing informed estimations
Be an authority on the technical architecture of our web app, understand the optimal way to achieve required outcomes.
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.
Ensure all systems are high quality (accessible, compliant, secure, supportable, etc…)
Continuously improve delivery and delivery metrics without compromising confidence.
Take part in a paid on-call support arrangement to help maintain platform reliability
Skills and requirements
Expert knowledge of React/Next.js/Node.js.
Expert in creating DRY, documented, maintainable, extendable, secure systems.
Experience delivering web apps at scale.
An expert understanding of modern digital commerce stacks
Experience building out and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
Experience working with multidisciplinary squads.
Experience growing and mentoring Software Engineers.
A solid understanding of agile software delivery and continuous improvement.
A passion for delivering simple, scalable solutions (often to complex problems).
An understanding and pragmatic approach to developing the technical culture of their team.
Excellent attention to detail.
An ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
Useful Experience
NextJS/Vercel (app router, caching, speed-insights, static rendering, turbo, mono-repo)
Typescript
Jest
Storybook (and Storybook testing)
Playwright
Contentful (or similar headless CMSs)
Algolia
Datadog (or similar monitoring tools, structuring logs, setting up monitors)
GitHub actions
HTTP (headers, status codes, payloads)
Akamai
GraphQL
Infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform)
GCP
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 pac
About the Company
ME+EM was founded by Clare Hornby in 2009 to offer designer quality at a fair price. Frustrated by how hard it was to find flattering, on-trend and beautifully-made clothes, Clare made the decision to offer women a solution to this sartorial problem. Employing her extensive consumer insight from 15 years in the advertising industry, along with a lifetime’s love of fashion and an obsession with fit, Clare launched ME+EM.
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