Lead Software Engineer

Description:

ME+EM is one of the UKs fastest-growing modern luxury fashion brands. As a direct-to-consumer business we operate in a truly multi-channel sense with seven London stores, as well as concessions in Harrods and Selfridges, supporting a rapidly expanding global digital business.

We are an entrepreneurial, creative, and passionate group of people. We work hard, are enthusiastic to learn and aren't afraid to take risks. Everyone contributes to our success at all levels, and that's precisely what makes being a member of the team so rewarding.

Our goal is to make ME+EM as diverse and inclusive as we possibly can. We make sure everyone has a voice with annual engagement surveys, employee-led committees, focus groups and quarterly town hall meetings. We pride ourselves on being approachable, supportive, and welcoming and ensure that everyones hard work is rewarded.

About the Role:

Were hiring a Lead Software Engineer (Full Stack) for ME+EM. Off the back of continued rapid domestic and international business growth we are embarking on an ambitious digital transformation project, as well as building out an internal digital platform team to support this transformation. This is an opportunity to play a key role in that new team, leading the charge in evolving the architecture of our future tech stack, as well as building out an in-house team of Software Engineers.

Our new digital platform team will consist of multidisciplinary autonomous squads, responsible for crafting best in class customer experiences across our customer facing apps. This team will own the customer-facing digital stack - end to end - and will be able to continuously improve our digital platform in a scalable, reliable, agile way.

The successful candidate will be happy to be very hands on initially, but be able to take a step back and adopt a more strategic role as the team grows, only jumping into tasks where they can add the most value. They should be able to demonstrate a proven track record of building out scalable web apps using modern technology stacks. And they should have excellent people skills, both when liaising with stakeholders across the business and managing and developing the engineering talent within their team.

Responsibilities:

• Take the lead on building out ME+EMs in house team of software engineers.
• Be able to jump in and deliver tasks where required.
• Own the technical architecture of our web app, end to end.
• Break down complex technical requirements into smaller, manageable requirements.
• 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.
• Grow our internal team of software engineers in line with business objectives.
• Line manage and develop technical talent, with an emphasis on delivering outstanding customer experiences.
• Ensure all releases have the appropriate level of unit and functional test automation.

About You:

• Expert knowledge of React/Next.js/Node.js.
• Experience delivering web apps at scale.
• An expert understanding of modern digital commerce stacks (e.g., MACH, Composable Commerce, etc).
• Experience building out and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience working with multidisciplinary squads.
• Experience line managing 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 of tech culture, and how to foster that culture within a team.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• An ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences.