Senior Software Engineer

Inspire | Exhilarate | Delight

For over six decades, Chalhoub Group has been a partner and creator of luxury experiences in the Middle East. The Group, in its endeavour to excel as a hybrid retailer, has reinforced its distribution and marketing services with a portfolio of eight owned brands and over 300 international brands in the luxury, beauty, fashion, and art de vivre categories. More recently, the Group expanded its expertise into new categories of luxury watches, jewellery, and eyewear.

Every step at Chalhoub Group is taken with the customer at heart. Be it constantly reinventing itself or focusing on innovation to provide luxury experiences at over 750 experiential retail stores, online and through mobile apps, each touch point leads to delighting the customer.

Today, Chalhoub Group stands for 14,000 skilled and talented professionals across seven countries, whose cohesive efforts have resulted in the Group being ranked third in the Middle East and first in Saudi Arabia as a Great Place to Work.

To keep the innovation journey going, the Group has set up "The Greenhouse", which is not just an innovation hub, but also an incubator space and accelerator for start-ups and small businesses in the region and internationally. This is just one of the several initiatives taken by the Group to reinvent itself, catalysed by forward thinking and future-proofing. The Group has also been embedding sustainability at the core of its business strategy with a clear commitment towards people, partners and the planet, and by being a member of the United Nations Global Compact Community and signatory of the Women's Empowerment Principles.

What you'll be doing

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be responsible for all aspects of software architecture and development, from high-level to low-level design, testing, and documentation. This is a chance to make a significant impact and help shape the future of our company.

Responsibilities:

• Architect, design, and develop scalable, high-performance e-commerce applications, focusing on microservices and an API-first approach.
• Own the entire software development lifecycle, from system architecture and design to implementation, testing, and deployment.
• Enforce best practices in code quality, security, and performance optimization, ensuring robust and maintainable solutions.
• Integrate modern DevOps and CI/CD methodologies, driving automation, monitoring, and cloud-native infrastructure adoption.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product, architecture, and operations, to develop innovative e-commerce solutions that drive business success.

What you'll need to succeed

• Bachelor's degree in Computing, Engineering, or Mathematics.
• 5+ years of full-stack development experience, with a strong focus on scalable web and mobile applications.
• Strong knowledge and experience in Node.js and React Native.
• Extensive experience in building responsive, scalable e-commerce websites and mobile applications.
• Extensive experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, including serverless architectures.
• Experience with Salesforce stack: Commerce Cloud and Service Cloud is a plus.
• Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills for effectively working with cross-functional teams and adapting to changing requirements and priorities.
• Leadership qualities, including mentorship, coaching, and guiding junior developers, and fostering a culture of knowledge sharing and continuous learning.
• Good understanding of RESTful and GraphQL API development.
• Cache strategy, CDN, front-end/back-end performance tuning, third-party integration, and service integration experience.
• Awareness of DevOps including Continuous Integration, Delivery, agile Configuration Management, Environment Management, and Release Management practices.

What we can offer you

With us, you will turn your aspirations into reality. We will help shape your journey through enriching experiences, learning and development opportunities, and exposure to different assignments within your role or through internal mobility. Our Group offers diverse career paths for those who are extraordinary, every day.

We recognise the value that you bring, and we strive to provide a competitive benefits package which includes health care, child education contribution, remote and flexible working policies as well as exclusive employee discounts.

We invite all applicants to apply

It takes diversity of thought, culture, background, differing abilities and perspectives to truly inspire, exhilarate and delight our customers. At Chalhoub Group, we are committed to inclusion and diversity.

We welcome all applicants to apply and be part of our exciting future. We ensure equal opportunity for all our applicants without regard to gender, age, race, religion, national origin or disability status.