10 hours ago
London, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead rapid proofs of concept testing how AI agents can discover, recommend, and purchase fashion through ASOS.
- Shape agent-ready APIs, product and catalogue data, identity, payments, trust, security, privacy, and alignment with emerging agent standards.
- Take successful prototypes into production with engineering teams, ensuring secure, reliable, observable customer experiences.
- Act as a technical authority across front-end and back-end systems, including design reviews, architecture, escalation support, and cross-codebase improvements.
- Own and evolve the architecture of front-end and microservice systems, including API design, contracts, integration patterns, and service boundaries.
- Design systems for scale, availability, performance, resilience, accessibility, and cost effectiveness during peak trading periods.
- Introduce tools, technologies, AI-assisted development guidance, and engineering practices that improve quality and productivity.
- Ensure production software is well tested, observable, secure, and aligned with ASOS standards.
- Use monitoring and telemetry to guide technical decisions.
- Mentor and develop engineers through pairing, learning sessions, and cross-stack collaboration.
- Build relationships with technology partners, AI platform providers, and industry groups, and communicate complex ideas to senior stakeholders.
Requirements
- Highly experienced senior engineer with a proven record guiding multidisciplinary teams through the full delivery lifecycle of complex, large-scale distributed software systems.
- Deep hands-on experience building back-end systems in .NET and C#, including microservices and REST APIs.
- Ability to work across front-end technologies for web and apps, including reading, reviewing, contributing to, and guiding front-end code.
- Strong experience with distributed systems, event-driven and asynchronous designs, service boundaries, resilience, and production operations.
- Hands-on experience building with large language models or agents, or a strong willingness to learn and apply AI in commerce.
- Track record of rapid prototyping followed by production hardening.
- Experience working with external partners, industry groups, and senior stakeholders.
- Enterprise experience building and running high-traffic, highly available platforms serving millions of users.
- Excellent architecture skills, including designing complex systems, defending decisions, and managing technical debt and dependencies.
- Strong understanding of synchronous and asynchronous design patterns for enterprise integration and data.
- Experience with Agile and XP practices and helping teams optimize their preferred approach.
- Deep understanding of the software development lifecycle, including quality assurance, build and deployment, progressive releases, monitoring, and telemetry.
- Familiarity with unit testing, TDD, BDD, integration testing, and performance testing practices.
- Awareness of application security fundamentals, including authentication, secure data handling, and API protection.
- Experience designing and running cloud-native systems, ideally on Microsoft Azure.
Benefits
- Employee discount and employee sample sales.
- 25 days of paid annual leave plus an extra celebration day.
- Discretionary bonus scheme.
- Private medical care scheme.
- Flexible benefits allowance that can be taken as extra cash or used for other benefits.
- Personalized learning opportunities and in-the-moment development experiences.
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About ASOS
ASOS is a global online fashion and beauty retailer for 20‑somethings, selling own‑brand and third‑party labels via its website and mobile apps. The company earns revenue from direct‑to‑consumer e‑commerce, shipping to customers worldwide and offering marketplace services for brands. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in London, ASOS is a public company listed on the London Stock Exchange and runs in‑house content and fulfillment operations at scale.