Are you a Software Engineer that wants to work with one of the fashion industry’s biggest tech transformations and create state of the art solutions to make an impact on a global scale? Do you have the ability to lead a team of like-minded Software Engineers, mentor and grow their capabilities and lead by example? Then this is the opportunity for you! 

Job Description

Join us as a Software Engineer- Competence Lead and deliver a modern world class digital workplace experience enabling H&M Group colleagues to delight and surprise our customers - today, tomorrow and in the future.  

About the role  

As a Competence Lead you will have staff responsibility for employees within the same/adjacent competence as your own, working in different product teams within the same product area. Your staff responsibility goes across different Product Teams and tasks include development conversations, salary review and other staff related activities. You will support, coach and help your team members grow and develop.  

You will work closely with the product owners within the product area, as well as other competence leads, software engineers and business experts. You will be able to try out your creative and innovative ideas – and have a large impact on how we shape the future of fashion retail logistics.   

As a software engineer you are expected to take part of all phases of the software development lifecycle, design, development, test, release and maintenance and translates business needs into working software. This is achieved through continuous attention to technical excellence and good design, with extensive use of automation  

Your responsibilities  

You will be a part of a small cross-functional and cross-competent team with great opportunity to impact a big organization. By contributing with your own delivery within your team you have a clear connection with the ongoing business to remain a relevant speaking partner for the employees. Within Product Exploration you will have a broad view of the colleague needs and see the connections between larger business goals, customer needs and priorities.
 
Some of your daily work includes:  

• Contribute with Software Engineer expertise in the Product Exploration context to improve and develop Products that solve business problem and aim to create a best in class customer experience  
• Design, develop and support the solutions in the products  
• Translate strategies and requirements into modern and scalable solution designs  
• Use an experimental mindset to identify, evaluate and recommend alternative designs  
• Collaborate with other product teams to help and provide the best end-user experience  
• Seek opportunities to automate, document and improve processes  
• Work with performance management and salary review for your employees 
• In your daily work coach and keep an ongoing dialogue with members in your competence team 
• Remain compliant with laws and policies, and act when necessary regarding e.g. under performance, work environment, etc.  
• Recruit new employees in your team  

Qualifications  

As a Software Engineer Competence Lead at H&M Group we believe you have the ability to apply leading software development practices and present alternative solutions and technical choices. To do this, we think you have a curious mindset, excellent communication skills as well as:

• Coding experience in Java or front end development in react
• Experience of designing and developing APIs and microservices as well as identifying and applying relevant software design patterns  
• Have a “you build it you run it” mindset 
• Experience of DevOps and CI/CD in cloud environments 

It’s a big plus if you have  

• Have acted as a leader and have experience from servant leadership within an agile framework  
• Have been a SCRUM master  

Additional information

This is a fulltime position with placement in Stockholm. Please apply with your CV and Personal letter as soon as possible. If you have any questions about the recruitment process, please contact Talent Acquisition Partner, Sara Lindström at [email protected]

 We are looking forward to your application! 

We do not accept application through email  

This is a full-time position based in Marievik, Stockholm.