Software Engineer (.NET, Azure)

Location: London, England, gb

Company Description

We're ASOS. We blend our flair for fashion with our love of cutting- edge technology, but more importantly were interested in how we can bring the best out of you.

We exist to give people the confidence to be whoever they want to be, and that goes for our people too. At ASOS, you're free to be your true self without judgment, and channel your creativity into a platform used by millions.

Job Description

Hybrid working
We work in-office at least 2 days a week to move faster, learn quicker, and build a strong, collaborative culture.

Here at ASOS, we want to give everyone the confidence to be their best self, because, when you're at your best, you can achieve amazing things.

Our Technology team pioneer incredible solutions that change the way our millions of customers can access fashion. We believe that fashion can make you look, feel and be the best version of you and it's this feeling of empowerment that we want our ASOSers to experience while working with us.

Our ASOSers reflect the diverse society they live in; we celebrate our differences and welcome people from all different walks of life. We're looking for people who can live and breathe our values of being Authentic, Brave, Creative and Disciplined and we don't care about labels - we recognise there are endless ways to be 'you'.

Sound like a place you'd love to be? Come and join us!

Would you like be involved in designing and developing the systems that handle all of ASOS payment processing? The Payments platform team are responsible for complex integrations with a wide variety of payments providers. In our team you'll be working in an incredible depth of detail where you'll fully understand the ins and outs of how the full payments lifecycle works.

• We process 1000's of transactions per minute accurately and securely.
• We're passionate about using the latest and best tech and working practices, and as part of our platform you'll receive regular security training and opportunities to work on performance problems at serious scale.
• If you're looking for great challenges and an environment where you'll be encouraged and supported to continuously experiment and learn new things, this could be the place for you!

At ASOS, we take real pride in our best-in -class microservices architecture, and we are looking for passionate and talented Engineers to support and deliver the innovative software which makes ASOS awesome!

We have 30 engineering platforms operating at hyper-scale receiving thousands of requests per second, and as a Senior Engineer, you'll work as part of strong cross functional Agile teams driving quality and technology, bringing your skills and experience to share with the team. From problem solving to new concept ideas, you have the genuine opportunity to unleash your full potential and creativity on a variety of ASOS software projects.

What we're using:

• Latest versions of .NET (C#)
• Azure DevOps to manage work items and CI/CD pipelines
• Microsoft Azure to host our service infrastructure across multiple regions
• Infrastructure as code tools to ensure our infrastructure is defined in a declarative manner
• Software Craftsmanship to drive our behaviours and technical practices (XP)
• SRE practices to improve how we operate services
• Scrum & Kanban as our frameworks to deliver our products

What you will be doing:

• Work as part of an enthusiastic and motivated agile development team that takes pride in delivering high-quality software into production
• Frequently delivering new features that delight millions of customers across the globe
• Ensuring our services are simple to operate with the goal of minimising the impact of any incidents to our customers
• Ensuring our services can scale to cater for sales events such as our Flash Sales and Black Friday that can process over a million orders an hour
• Writing high-quality code using a test-first approach
• Working in a high-trust, cross-functional team to deliver software and learn from one another
• Continuously look for opportunities to improve our products and ways of working
• Contribute to our engineering community to improve software across the whole of ASOS
• Participate in community sessions such as brown-bags, hackathons, to learn and share your knowledge with the aim of driving engineering improvements and innovation

Qualifications

What you will need:

• A desire to develop simple and maintainable solutions that are aligned to modern engineering patterns and practices
• Hands-on experience of automated testing practices e.g., TDD/ATDD/BDD
• Able to design and implement cloud-native distributed systems that leverage RESTful APIs, messaging and streaming
• Proven experience in Agile and XP methodologies (Scrum, pair-programming)
• Experience of operating microservices in a production environment
• Able to define continuous delivery pipelines to ensure software can be delivered reliably & efficiently to production
• Knowledge of at least one cloud provider e.g., Azure, AWS, GCP

Additional Information

What's in it for you?

• Competitive salary, pension, and private medical care scheme
• Performance related bonus
• Flex benefits allowance - which you can chose to take as extra cash, or use towards other benefits
• 25 days paid annual leave + an extra day for your birthday
• Employee discount (hello ASOS discount!)
• Tech Develops - our internal tech focussed skills development programme to focus on your personal growth as a technologist
• Opportunity to represent ASOS at industry leading events
• Opportunity to help shape and drive our DE&I initiatives in Tech (like our WIT movement and Diversity mentoring in Tech)
• Opportunity to make an impact from day one and work with the latest in cutting edge of technology