Senior Software Engineer - 12 Month FTC Maternity Cover

About Charlotte Tilbury Beauty
Founded by British makeup artist and beauty entrepreneur Charlotte Tilbury MBE in 2013, Charlotte Tilbury Beauty has revolutionised the face of the global beauty industry by de-coding makeup applications for everyone, everywhere, with an easy-to-use, easy-to-choose, easy-to-gift range. Today, Charlotte Tilbury Beauty continues to break records across countries, channels, and categories and to scale at pace.

Over the last 10 years, Charlotte Tilbury Beauty has experienced exceptional growth and is one of the most talked about brands in the beauty industry and beyond. It has become a global sensation across 50 markets (and growing), with over 2,300 employees globally who are part of the Dream Team making the magic happen.

Today, Charlotte Tilbury Beauty is a truly global business, delivering market-leading growth, innovative retail and product launches fuelled by industry-leading tech — all with an internal culture of embracing challenges, disruptive thinking, winning together, and sharing the magic. The energy behind the bran­d is infectious, and as we grow, we are always looking for extraordinary talent who want to be part of this our success and help drive our limitless ambitions.

About the role

We work in SCRUM or Kanban teams, with a strong emphasis on cross-functional collaboration. You’ll partner closely with Engineers, QA, Product Managers, and Designers to build robust, scalable solutions that are as elegant as they are effective. We care deeply about quality, performance, and observability, and we’re always open to challenging convention when it leads to better outcomes.  

As a Senior Software Engineer - 12 Month FTC Maternity Cover you will

We’re looking for motivated, curious, and collaborative engineers who are excited to build game-changing features with luxury-level polish and reliability. If you love solving problems, working across disciplines, and bringing ideas to life, you’ll thrive here.  

• Designing and building modern mobile-first web applications and components using React, TypeScript and Next.js. 

• Building scalable back-end services and APIs using Java and Spring Boot. 

• Designing scalable systems and well-defined service interfaces, with a strong understanding of modern software architecture and testing practices. 

• Writing clean, high-quality code that is easy to test, maintain and extend across both front-end and back-end services. 

• Driving quality through excellent automated testing practices, including API testing to enable continuous deployment. 

• Understanding how modern web applications work end to end, from browser HTTP requests and API calls through to service-layer logic, data handling and page rendering. 

• Using AI tools and practices to enhance product features, improve code quality and optimise engineering workflows. 

• Building high-performance, reliable and scalable solutions on AWS or similar public cloud infrastructure. 

• Mentoring engineers who are earlier in their career. 

• Experience with front-end frameworks such as Next.js. 

Who you will work with

Engineers, QA, Product Managers, and Designers

About you

• On the back end we use Java with Spring Boot, in an AWS (Amazon Web Services) environment  

• On the front-end React, Redux, TypeScript, Node.js, NextJS and SCSS, and test with Jest, Enzyme, React testing library and Cypress  

• Orchestration of our test and deployment process using CircleCI with GitHub, Maven  

• We use Contentful and ElasticPath as our content and commerce engines respectively  

• We also use Optimizely to run A/B testing on the features we build  

Why join us?

• Be a part of this values driven, high growth, magical journey with an ultimate vision to empower everyone, everywhere to be the best version of themselves.
• We’re a hybrid model with flexibility, allowing you to work how best suits you.
• 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays) with an additional day to celebrate your birthday.
• Inclusive parental leave policy that supports all parents and carers throughout their parenting and caring journey.
• Financial security and planning with our pension and life assurance for all.
• Wellness and social benefits including Medicash, Employee Assist Programs and regular social connects with colleagues.
• Bring your fury friend to work with you on our allocated dog friendly days and spaces and not to forget our generous product discount and gifting!

At Charlotte Tilbury Beauty, our mission is to empower everybody in the world to be the most beautiful version of themselves. We celebrate and support this by encouraging and hiring people with diverse backgrounds, cultures, voices, beliefs, and perspectives into our growing global workforce. By doing so, we better serve our communities, customers, employees - and the candidates that take part in our recruitment process.