Software Engineer – Backend, 12 Month Maternity Cover FTC

Charlotte Tilbury Beauty

Software Engineer at Charlotte Tilbury Beauty focused on developing scalable back-end services using Java and Spring Boot. Collaborating across teams to enhance product features and optimize workflows.

Posted 7/10/2026full-timeLondon • 🇬🇧 United KingdomMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudCypressJavaJavaScriptJestMavenNext.jsNode.jsReactReduxSCSSSpringSpring BootSpringBootTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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.
Any experience building modern mobile-first web applications and components using React, TypeScript or Next.js is beneficial.

Requirements

What you’ll need

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

Benefits

Comp & perks

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 furry friend to work with you on our allocated dog friendly days and spaces and not to forget our generous product discount and gifting!

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Hard Skills & Tools

JavaSpring BootReactTypeScriptNode.jsNext.jsSCSSJestCypressMaven