Global Fashion Group

Overview of job

At GFG, Technology is core to long-term success and is a crucial enabler of a great Customer Experience. We are a mix of experts in fashion, logistics, data analytics, marketing, and design, guided by business consultants and tech geniuses – everyone contributes to the success of GFG.

Our Engineering Department plans, builds and maintains the technology that drives high traffic ecommerce platforms. Our ability to deliver fast, safe and scalable solutions is critical in delivering first-class experiences to our customers. Our teams are organised by business domain and take ownership of everything they do in a you built it, you own it, model.

A bit about the role

You will be responsible for all technology, software, tools, process, training and culture that enable our engineers to get their work done. Our vision is to give every engineer the best possible experience from the moment they join our team. We do this by driving engagement through tooling, training, and culture.

Your primary responsibility is to the people you support; ensuring that they are growing as engineers, delivering healthy technology, and having a great time doing so. A solid technical background is key so that you’re able to challenge your team members to be their best. You will have the opportunity to influence the culture, technical delivery and process.

What you will do

• Build and lead a team of engineers through hiring, coaching, mentoring, feedback and hands-on career development
• Support the timely delivery of technical solutions to address business needs
• Advocate and advance modern, Agile practices and help develop and evangelise broader engineering and organizational practices, including: Lean Engineering, SCRUM, clean coding/architecture and cross functional teams
• Grow a diverse, safe, healthy, collaborative engineering culture
• Facilitate collaboration with other engineers, product managers, and designers to solve challenging problems that affect all people at THE ICONIC
• Architect and implement learning and training programs that align our team's abilities with technical strategies

• Annual Leave: 15 days
• Sick leave/Mental Health Days: 30 days.
• Occasion leave: 1 day.
• 13th month salary.
• Annual bonus: up to 3 months based salary (depends on company performance).
• Home Workspace support: up to 10mil/person.
• Learning budget up to EUR 500/person.
• Free Linkedin Learning, Udemy account.
• Medical benefits: Social insurance, medical insurance & AON insurance.
• Macbook is provided.
• Support for English class.
• Support Gym membership.
• Additionally, we offer a flat hierarchy, a fun and flexible work environment.

What we are looking for

• Experience gathering metrics and translating them into strategic initiatives that deliver performance and engagement uplifts
• Experience tailoring individual coaching plans based on a person's skills, attributes, and career objectives – giving feedback, setting goals and challenging their team to meet them
• Strategic mindset that is flexible, realistic and goal-oriented. 
• Experience applying agile and lean principles to solve problems at any scale
• Software engineering  background 
• Demonstrated track record of executing upon strategic vision and collaborating with leadership and peers
• Experience leading engineering teams to ship quality code reliably

Ways to stand out from the crowd

• E-commerce experience
• Experience working across our tech stack. You understand a spectrum of technologies at varying degrees of expertise. We use Node, React, AWS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.