Overview

Position Title: Principal Engineer

Company: MATCHESFASHION

Location: London, England, United Kingdom

Job Description:

We are looking for a principal engineer with a focus on client applications to provide technical leadership to our frontend chapter. You will work across several teams, providing strategic direction in the areas of frameworks, code structure / hygiene, testing and deployment mechanisms. A particular focus will be the migration of our routing and rendering infrastructure from Kubernetes to a serverless implementation. You will work closely with our transformation team to deliver these changes.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead our frontend chapter, championing technical excellence.
  • Develop a deep understanding of our current frontend application landscape.
  • Introduce new technologies and practices which improve our technical platform.
  • Work with other principal engineers and engineering chapter leads to identify major technical roadblocks and develop strategies to remove them.
  • Help our existing frontend engineers to learn new skills and technologies.
  • Work across teams to sharpen collaboration between users, product managers and engineers, ensuring that engineering quality permeates all aspects of delivery.

Requirements:

  • You have deep and broad knowledge / experience of frontend development.
  • You are an expert in one or more modern frontend frameworks (angular, vue, react)
  • You understand the full context of frontend engineering, how scalable and responsive frontends are effectively developed, tested, and deployed.
  • You bring recent experience of relevant patterns; SSR and micro-frontends.
  • You are a DevOps practitioner, comfortable setting up pipelines and environments.
  • You have strong coaching and mentoring skills with the ability to develop others.
  • You bring hands-on experience with scripting and infrastructure as code.
  • You can work with engineers of all disciplines to solve complex problems.
  • You have recent experience of project and team leadership.

About MATCHESFASHION

At MATCHESFASHION we are on a mission to offer the most personal luxury shopping experience in the world. We are renowned and respected for the relationships we build with clients and our brand partners. To achieve our ambition, we capitalise on our unique combination of technical savviness and global innovation mixed with curated content.
We like to think of it as logic meeting magic. When we come together, great things happen.