Backend Engineer

JD.COM; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement plans

Performance bonuses

Job summary

JD.com seeks an experienced software engineer to join the Europe technology team in London, developing services for JoyBuy and European operations. You will collaborate with product, platform and retail teams and contribute to architecture, quality, and multi-domain delivery.

The role emphasizes mentorship, open collaboration, and a proactive approach to evolving our services for a dynamic ecommerce environment. A competitive package and benefits accompany the position.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a technical field.
• 5+ years of experience in full stack software development.
• Demonstrated passion for technology, code quality, and open-source projects.

Responsibilities

• Build and extend JD retail services and platform with a focus on performance, availability, security and scalability.
• Identify and mitigate technical risks, implementing monitoring, maintainability and rollback strategies.
• Extend technical capabilities to improve operational excellence for business partners.
• Innovate and adopt new technologies to enhance user experience, efficiency and cost effectiveness.
• Communicate technical vision and decisions across multiple domains and stakeholders.
• Mentor junior engineers and support ongoing skill development.

Skills

Full stack development

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related technical field

Job description

JD.com is seeking an experience software engineer to join our technology team in Europe and focus on developing our software services for our retail business, JoyBuy, and its extended services for operations in European countries such as the UK, Germany, and the Netherlands, France and more. You will have the opportunity to work with teams across multiple domains including product management, platform, retail applications, business. We operate in Europe and China in a dynamic international enviornment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build and extend JD retail services and platform, ensuring high performance, availability, concurrency, security, and scalability.
• Identify and mitigate technical risks throughout project implementation, developing and executing effective control strategies that cover monitorability, maintainability, and grey release or rollback capabilities.
• Extend JD technical capabilities to enhance operational excellence for business partners.
• Innovate, research, adopt, and promote new technologies and methodologies to enhance experience, improve efficiency and optimising operational cost.
• Identify integration opportunities between emerging technologies and global system architectures to drive the team’s technical growth and strengthen architectural foresight.
• Strengthen software development principles, processes, and planning across multiple teams and with our business partners.
• Work closely with key stakeholders to design and define service development plan.
• Effectively communicate technical vision and strategy, software design logic, technical decisions with colleagues across multiple domains.
• Support and mentor junior members technical skill development and progression.
• This position is based in London, UK.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related technical field.
• 5+ years of experience full stack software development
• Passionate about technology and continuous improvement, demonstrating exceptional coding proficiency, a commitment to clean and elegant code, and a keen interest in exploring open-source projects.
• Proactive, fast learner, and highly collaborative, with strong communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills, capable of independently identifying and resolving complex technical challenges.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Work experience in large-scale ecommerce companies.
• Experience in supplier and merchant tools.
• Experience in UK and European business.
• Fluent in English is essential. Having communication skills in Chinese is a plus.

What We Offer:

• A dynamic and challenging work environment in a leading global e-commerce company.
• The opportunity to work with a diverse international team and to make a significant impact on JD.com's global presence.
• Competitive salary and benefits package, including health insurance, retirement plans, and performance bonuses.

JD.com is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.