Senior Full Stack Engineer

For over 37 years, Aesop has carefully cultivated an inspiring and inclusive environment in which our employees are supported and encouraged to thrive. As a global retail organisation, we offer professional development and advancement opportunities to complement career goals and aspirations.

We aim to strike the right balance between people, planet, and profit, actively reducing our footprint on the planet that generously sustains us. So far, this journey has led us to become a certified B Corp. We are collectively committed to building a more sustainable and inclusive society.

Aesop is an endorsed employer for all women. See our range of benefits and policies directly at Work180: Aesop - Work180 Endorsed Employer.

Role Purpose

Aesop are seeking an inquisitive and analytical Senior Full Stack Engineer to join us on a 12-month basis operating with a hybrid working pattern, based at our global head office in Collingwood.

Reporting to the Engineering Lead – Full Stack, you will work within one or more of our independent cross-functional teams to help build and maintain Aesop Web Applications to the highest standards.

Working closely with our Peer Engineers and Product Managers along with other functional Leads and individuals, you will responsible for delivering the projects, while also working collaboratively with Engineering Leads to contribute in setting the technical direction and standards within Engineering Teams.

Some things you may find yourself doing

• Contribute to providing direction for “How” a feature is delivered across engineering and associated solution design to achieve a business outcome.
• Continuous delivery of quality software.
• Develop capabilities and automate practices to improve continuous delivery and integration.
• Contribute to the development and use of coding standards to ensure deployed code meets our high standards, focusing on creating testable, reusable, and robust code.
• Collaborate with product owners and stakeholders to identify pragmatic trade-offs for positive outcomes.
• Ensure the efficient and scalable operations of the product through process development, documentation, and training.
• Uphold architecture best practices and code quality within the Engineering team, preventing the introduction of long-term technical debt.
• Assess and implement new and better development techniques or tools to improve quality and speed to market.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to guide and refine the requirements and scope of work, contributing to a committed Product roadmap.
• Maintain consistency and standards of development work submitted by Aesop vendors operating in the Engineering and Technology wide domain.
• Contribute to the implementation and upkeep of CI/CD Pipelines for Frontend and AWS applications.
• Contribute to the implementation of prototype applications, environments, and technical proof of concepts to help guide technical strategy and approach

What we are looking for

• Strong experience with modern JavaScript and TypeScript web application development
• Commercial experience with NextJS, NodeJS and server-side JavaScript
• Commercial experience with AWS Lambda, API Gateway and DynamoDB
• Experience with GraphQL on both the client and server-side.
• An understanding of eCommerce technology tools, providers, and trend
• Strong understanding of system design and software development best practices
• Experience in full life cycle solution implementation from conceptualisation, requirements, design and specification through development, QA/debugging, integration testing, deployment and follow up support
• Experience in a senior development role in a project or product team is highly preferred.

What’s on Offer:

At Aesop, we believe that the best people drive our business to continued success and so we take a holistic approach to employment, promoting employee wellbeing initiatives and encouraging deep connections with the local community through the Aesop Foundation, volunteering, matched giving programs. In addition, we offer:

• Flexible working arrangements (we value work-life balance)
• Flexible Fridays (summer hours)
• Generous product discount of up to 50% & complimentary product allocation
• Team lunches, sponsored social clubs, team events, and celebrations
• Parental leave and vaccination leave
• Individual training budget - strong focus on Learning and Development – access to the entire LinkedIn training library suite, and funded training programs
• Home office set-up reimbursements
• Short term incentive bonus programs to reward performance for applicable roles
• Access to Employee Assistance Program along with other wellbeing offerings including a complimentary Headspace subscription

View our benefits/policies and the great work we do through Work180

Aesop is committed to attracting, developing and retaining the very best people by offering a creative and inclusive workplace where talent is truly recognised and rewarded. We are committed to promoting inclusion for all with the belief that diversity, inclusion and belonging plays an important role in the success of our organisation. We actively encourage everyone to consider becoming a part of our journey.

If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please contact our TA team on talentacqusition@aesop.com.