Company Description
We're ASOS. We blend our flair for fashion with our love of cutting- edge technology, but more importantly were interested in how we can bring the best out of you.
We exist to give people the confidence to be whoever they want to be, and that goes for our people too. At ASOS, you're free to be your true self without judgment, and channel your creativity into a platform used by millions.
Job Description
ASOS is a unique and forward-thinking company which understands the opportunities data and technology has on driving the business forward. The Commercial Planning & Optimisation tech team are responsible for providing technology solutions to support our Buying and Merchandising teams in planning, selecting and creating our products as well as managing our relationships with our suppliers.
With around 5000 new products going live every week there is huge scope to provide capabilities which allow our colleagues to improve their efficiency and make more effective decisions driving a better product offer to our fashion loving twentysomething customers.
As a Lead Software Engineer, you'll be hands-on pushing best practice engineering processes and approaches, and driving the capabilities of the platform, ensuring continuous product improvement and ongoing development of engineers through coaching, mentoring and pairing. From problem solving to new concept ideas, you have the genuine opportunity to unleash your full potential and creativity on a variety of ASOS software projects.
What you'll be doing:
- Work as part of an enthusiastic and motivated agile development team that takes pride in delivering high-quality software into production
- Provide leadership to the engineers in the team, bringing in best practices and patterns from the wider ASOS team, and facilitate an environment of continuous improvement
- Take a test first approach from business requirements through to code
- You will continually develop and improve our code and technology, whilst playing a leadership in shaping our technical solutions
- Writing high quality code to drive company growth and effectiveness of the buying and merchandising teams who use our software
- Working along side the Engineering Manager to develop and grow our people
- Join our regular Tech Develops days to learn new things, take part in internal and external hackathons, share your knowledge and help to drive improvements in engineering
Qualifications
We'd like to meet people with:
- We are looking for self-motivated, passionate and highly engaged individual who can craft quality solutions to our end users and have these attributes:
- Experience in delivering software in an iterative, continuous delivery environment that ships value frequently
- Excellent communicator, mentor and negotiator
- Good understanding or keen interest in learning Merchandise Planning Processes (Financial & Assortment Planning, Product Lifecycle Management)
We'd love it if you have experience in building applications with;
- Latest versions of .NET Framework. .NET Standard and .NET Core (C#)
- ReactJs
- Azure Service Bus
- Azure Cosmos DB, SQL DB
- GitHub, Azure DevOps pipelines
- ATDD/BDD
- Scrum/Kanban
- Devops
It would be great if you also
- Understand a typical system landscape of a large retail organisation and dependencies on planning systems.
- Understand agile testing frameworks, providing assurance on complex integrated systems
- Have experience with administrating or configuring Merchandise Planning applications
- Good knowledge of Azure or transferable knowledge from AWS or similar
- Experience of Linux
- Experience in one or more of these languages: Java, Python, Bash or PowerShell
- Experience in using Terraform
- Experience in Azure Kubernetes Services
Additional Information
What's in it for you?
- Competitive salary, pension, and private medical care scheme
- Performance related bonus
- Flex benefits allowance – which you can chose to take as extra cash, or use towards other benefits
- 25 days paid annual leave + an extra day for your birthday
- Employee discount (hello ASOS discount!)
- Tech Develops – our internal tech focussed skills development programme to focus on your personal growth as a technologist
- Opportunity to represent ASOS at industry leading events
- Opportunity to help shape and drive our DE&I initiatives in Tech (like our WIT movement and Diversity mentoring in Tech)
- Opportunity to make an impact from day one and work with the latest in cutting edge of technology
We want our people to be whoever they want to be. That's why we're committed to creating a truly inclusive culture at ASOS, but how're we doing it?Through our Fashion with Integrity strategy we are driving diversity, equity and inclusion across every aspect of ASOS and ensuring every ASOSer can be their authentic self at work. We want our people to be whoever they want to be, because we believe people who bring their best selves to work, do their best work. We're proud members of Inclusive Companies, are Disability Confident Committed and have signed the Business in the Community Race at Work Charter. We've also recently been placed 8th in the Inclusive Top 50 Companies Employer List too.There are safe space employee networks and we host a monthly DEI events series to help support and celebrate all of our people. We are constantly listening to our people, evolving, changing and taking a flexible approach to how we make ASOS truly inclusive.
