Senior Software Engineer

INTRODUCTION

At Burberry, we believe creativity opens spaces. Our purpose is to unlock the power of imagination to push boundaries and open new possibilities for our people, our customers and our communities. This is the core belief that has guided Burberry since it was founded in 1856 and is central to how we operate as a company today.   

We aim to provide an environment for creative minds from different backgrounds to thrive, bringing a wide range of skills and experiences to everything we do. As a purposeful, values-driven brand, we are committed too being a force for good in the world as well, creating the next generation of sustainable luxury for customers, driving industry change and championing our communities. 

Why Join Us

You will be at the heart of Burberry's new engineering strategy, helping us build an in-house engineering team and developing a culture that makes Burberry a great place to work.

Join our dynamic team at Burberry, where we are at the forefront of merging technology with style. We are responsible for a diverse portfolio of applications and products, including the renowned burberry.com, our robust internal systems, and the cutting-edge technology showcased in our physical stores.

Technology

Although Burberry is a very well-known luxury company, we have very few tech boundaries; our microservices platform was recently implemented on then-new serverless AWS tech - so successfully hat we gave a talk at AWS Summit in Las Vegas.

We continually trial betas of AWS and other tech solutions to see how we could use them, while having regular calls with AWS to understand and trial new features and capabilities.

We predominantly use nodejs for backend with react on the frontend. Infrastructure as Code is either Terraform or AWS CDK. To support all of this we are building an internal open source shared library.

We're big on automation. We have gitlab for CI, snyk for security testing, an internal performance engineering team ensuring your solutions meet high standards.

Our platforms and applications are extremely stable, and we focus on building new features and trialing new tech. The number of critical incidents has reduced significantly over the past few years thanks to our investment in Observability, including teams being responsible for their application in production (we call it Run What You Wrote).

The Burberry brand is known around the world, and our technology must support customers everywhere. Localisation is the key part of our strategy – we tailor our customer experiences online in many regions. From overcoming global technical restrictions, to building for users on all devices, we need to give Burberry consumers the highest quality luxury digital retail experience wherever they may be.

Responsibilities

As a Senior Engineer, you will be the expert in vanilla Node.js and TypeScript

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• Proven experience as a Full-Stack Engineer working with Node.js, TypeScript and React.
• Strong understanding of the Node.js runtime environment and event-driven programming.
• Experience with cloud services.
• Solid understanding of RESTful API design and development.
• Strong understanding of front-end technologies, including HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript.
• Experience with database technologies (SQL and NoSQL) and data modelling.
• Proven experience in designing and implementing GraphQL APIs.
• Experience with unit and integration test tools.
• Familiarity with version control tools, preferably Git.
• Good understanding of infrastructure as code (Terraform, CDK).
• Knowledge of event-driven architecture.

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Experience with DevOps practices and tools
• Experience with continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
• Knowledge of containerisation and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with automation testing frameworks
• Experience with Nest.js
• Knowledge of authentication and authorisation mechanisms, such as JWT.
• Understanding of microservices architecture and distributed systems.
• Knowledge of BFF (Back-end For Front-end) architecture.
• Experience with Storybook and shared component libraries.

Burberry is an Equal Opportunities Employer and as such, treats all applications equally and recruits purely on the basis of skills and experience.

Posting Notes: United Kingdom || Not Applicable || London || IT || DIGITAL || n/a ||