Senior Software Engineering Lead

1 month ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom Selfridges Full time
Principal Engineer

At Selfridges, we're on a mission to revolutionize retail, with our customers and sustainability at the forefront of everything we do. We're currently on a journey to deliver flexible and scalable technology platforms, providing an inspiring and effortless experience across all touchpoints.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Principal Engineer to join our agile teams in our London office. In this role, you'll be instrumental in shaping our Customer & Data technology, influencing our future technical direction.

As a Principal Engineer, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping the technical direction, strategic vision, and innovation of our Customer & Data applications. Your expertise in leading technology transformations will be key as we transition from monolithic architectures to a multi-cloud, scalable MACH-based platform. You'll spearhead major initiatives to revamp our customer membership programs, including Clienteling, CRM, and data platforms, while nurturing the growth and development of our engineering team.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Manage a diverse portfolio of engineering initiatives across domain, ensuring alignment with business goals and technical standards.
  • Provide technical leadership, formulating technical strategies, making decisions on solutions, and establishing and standardizing robust engineering practices.
  • Develop and lead microservice architecture strategies for the development of scalable, flexible, and cost-effective applications.
  • Work with Platform engineers to design CI/CD pipelines and quality frameworks for frequent, reliable releases.
  • Collaborate across engineering teams in your domain and help members make informed decisions aligned with strategic plans.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues in both front-end and back-end systems.
  • Set up processes and frameworks for live support and maintenance of engineering services, technical debt management, and creating a robust and reliable support model for delivered services.
  • Promote and support a quality-focused culture within the engineering team. Champion ongoing enhancements, performance optimization, and security across the development lifecycle.
  • Advocate for modern development practices like pair programming, TDD, SOLID principles, technical debt management, and the use of cloud-native solutions when appropriate.
  • Build, mentor, and foster engineering talent to collaborate effectively with architecture, delivery, DevOps, InfoSec, and support teams.
Requirements:
  • Strong foundation in software engineering principles and scalable system design.
  • Proficiency in BE and FE development using JavaScript, React, Next.js, TypeScript, and Node.js.
  • Experience in AWS specifically with Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, and EventBridge is a plus.
  • Experience in designing and leading the implementation of micro-frontends, microservices, event-driven, and headless architectures.
  • Proficiency in database management (SQL, NoSQL) and version control.
  • Experience with DevOps practices and tools (e.g., Docker, Jenkins, Kubernetes) in collaborating closely with DevOps teams.
  • Experience with monitoring solutions like CloudWatch or Dynatrace.
  • Good understanding of engineering security best practices.
  • Ability to lead Engineering Guilds to introduce and enhance engineering initiatives.

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