19 hours ago
Stockholm, SwedenSenior
Responsibilities
- Lead frontend technical initiatives, architecture strategy, and technical direction for the Web Foundation team.
- Define React and Next.js strategy, build system evolution, component architecture, middleware approaches, performance optimization, and design system patterns.
- Prototype, debug, validate, and document architectural ideas, including emerging web technologies and tooling.
- Conduct rigorous code reviews, mentor engineers, and establish quality standards through feedback.
- Collaborate with backend, platform, security, product, and engineering teams on API contracts, middleware design, and cross-team technical decisions.
- Communicate trade-offs, facilitate alignment, remove blockers, and influence web architecture across H&M.
Requirements
- 8–10+ years of software engineering experience with proven team leadership and architectural decision-making.
- Experience leading initiatives and serving in a tech lead role on large-scale web platforms.
- Deep expertise in frontend and web architecture, including component composition, state management, performance optimization, bundler configuration, and code splitting.
- Production experience with React.js, Next.js, TypeScript, and Node.js.
- Experience diagnosing and improving performance across bundle size, Core Web Vitals, network waterfalls, and rendering.
- Experience writing RFCs, design documents, or architectural decision records and influencing technical direction.
- Strong communication, stakeholder management, collaboration, mentoring, and cross-organizational alignment skills.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and modern testing frameworks such as Jest and React Testing Library.
- Nice-to-have experience with middleware layers, API contracts, caching, error handling, Azure or another cloud platform, AI-assisted tools or agents, and security-sensitive code involving authentication and authorization.
Benefits
- Staff discount on all H&M Group brands, in-store and online.
- H&M Incentive Program, collective agreement, and ITP pensions for the Swedish market.
- 30 days of vacation, health care allowance, Benify partner discounts, and other perks.
- Full-time permanent position with hybrid work in Stockholm, Sweden; start as soon as possible.
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About H&M Group
H&M Group is a public Swedish retail company that designs and sells fashion, beauty, and homeware across multiple brands, including H&M, COS, Monki, Weekday, ARKET, and & Other Stories. It serves consumers worldwide through around 4,700 stores in 76 markets and extensive e‑commerce. Founded in 1947 and headquartered in Stockholm, the group focuses on sustainability and circular design in its supply chain.