Ios Developer jobs in United Kingdom

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.

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.

• 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, 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.

• 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.

• NextJS/Vercel (app router, caching, speed-insights, static rendering, turbo, mono-repo)
• Typescript
• Jest
• Storybook (and Storybook testing)
• Playwright
• Contentful (or similar headless CMSs)
• 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

• 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
• Generous Staff and Friends and Family Discount
• Cycle to Work 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 note, due to the large number of applications we receive, we can only reply to those that are successful to the next stage.