Senior Software Engineer

Overview
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 UKs 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.
About the Role: We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack) to join ME+EMs established Digital Platforms team. Following the successful completion of our digital transformation, we are 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 works to continuously improve our digital platform in a scalable, reliable, and 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 scalable web apps using modern technology stacks and should have excellent people skills for liaising with stakeholders and developing 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.
Collaborate with Product Managers and stakeholders to manage expectations by providing informed estimations.
Be an authority on the technical architecture of our web app and understand the optimal way to achieve required outcomes.
Advocate for crafting quality, performant, scalable solutions.
Own our development and CI/CD pipelines and evolve them 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