Lead Engineer for COS

Job Description

We are currently looking for a Lead Engineer for the COS Digital Experience Team. In this role, you will play an instrumental part in building the best customer experience with cross functional product team to grow and develop the brand. The team takes full responsibility for Development and Operations and consists of business experts, a product manager, software engineers and works in an agile setup.

As a Lead Software Engineer, you will take responsibility for the architecture and engineering in the Product Team and you are going to be in strong collaboration with the business, Product Managers, Developers, Architects, and different stakeholders to drive the development and solutioning of our existing and new implementations. Your contributions will empower COS Product Team to ensure efficient delivery of high-quality products.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead the development and maintenance for the overall COS eCommerce Solution.
• Drive technical decision-making, provide architectural guidance, and ensure the implementation of best practices.
• Ensure Quality of Solution incl. Conduct code reviews, offer constructive feedback, and ensure adherence to security, coding standards and best practices.
• Identify and resolve complex technical issues, including performance optimization, memory management, and concurrency challenges.
• Stay up to date with the latest advancements in Web development, evaluate new tools and frameworks, and promote their adoption when appropriate.
• Work closely with Architects, Engineering Managers, Security Champion, Team Members, and external stakeholders to ensure platform stability and refining roadmap.
• Understand and visualize concepts that are not yet concrete, identify patterns and use your problem-solving skills, strong analytic ability, creativity and customer and business drive to find a solution and win support for your ideas.
• Ability to take the initiative and identify and address existing and potential obstacles, issues, and opportunities.
• Able to create both high-level and low-level design documentation and technical specifications.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in software engineering or equivalent.
• At least 10 years of software development experience.
• Experience in Leading engineering teams to deliver projects or products.
• Experience of working on e-commerce solutions.
• Have a strong customer focus mindset and experience in working with data driven decision making and experimentation.
• Experience in working with solution architecture and backend development.
• Hands-on development experience in JavaScript based frameworks including Node.js, TypeScript, React, Next.js is a plus.
• Experience with Microservices architecture on Cloud, API implementation and API design principles.
• Knowledge on sourcing tools -git- and project tracking software like Jira and Confluence.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to diagnose issues and propose effective solutions.
• Engineering expertise on performance and integration best practices.
• Prior experience on cloud platforms (Azure, AWS or GCP).
• Experience on the CI/CD pipelines.
• Being a team player. Our landscape consists of several different teams and systems and only with strong collaboration can we make wonders happen.
• Strong communication, presentation and stakeholder engagement skills.

Additional Information

This is a fulltime permanent position, starting as soon as possible according to agreement. The role is an on-site position, based in our office in Stockholm, Sweden.

Apply by sending in your CV in English as soon as possible, but no later than the 31st of November. Due to data policies, we only accept applications through career page.

Benefits

We offer all our employees at H&M Group attractive benefits with extensive development opportunities around the globe. All our employees receive a staff discount card, usable on all our H&M Group brands in stores and online. Brands covered by the discount are H&M (Beauty and Move included), COS, Weekday, Monki, H&M HOME, & Other Stories, ARKET, Afound. In addition to our staff discount, all our employees are included in our H&M Incentive Program – HIP. You can read more about our H&M Incentive Program here.

In addition to our global benefits, all our local markets offer different competitive perks and benefits. Please note that they may differ between employment type and countries.

Inclusion & Diversity

H&M is a part of H&M Group. At H&M Group, we’re determined to create and maintain inclusive, diverse and equitable workplaces throughout our organisation. Our teams should consist of a variety of people that share and combine their knowledge, experience and ideas. Having a diverse workforce leads to a positive impact on how we address challenges, on what we perceive possible and on how we choose to relate to our colleagues and customers all over the world. Hence all diversity dimensions are taken into consideration in our recruitment process.

We are committed to a recruitment process that is fair, equitable, and based on competency. We therefore kindly ask you to not attach a cover letter in your application.

Company Description

H&M is a fashion brand that offers the latest styles and inspiration, from fashion pieces and unique designer collaborations to affordable wardrobe essentials. Our business idea is fashion & quality at the best price in a sustainable way. Learn more about H&M here.