Software Engineer Backend

Charlotte Tilbury Beauty; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading beauty brand in Greater London seeks a motivated Software Engineer - Backend to design and build scalable services primarily using Java and Spring Boot within an AWS environment. Ideal candidates will thrive in a cross-functional team and are expected to engage in technical discussions that shape the platform. The role promises a dynamic work environment that values innovative thinking and collaboration, with opportunities for professional growth and a strong emphasis on quality and performance.

Benefits

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Inclusive parental leave policy

Pension and life assurance

Wellness programs and social benefits

Dog friendly work environment

Generous product discounts

Qualifications

• Experience in designing and building services in Java with Spring Boot.
• Demonstrated knowledge of AWS for building scalable solutions.
• Experience with CI/CD and automated testing/deployment.

Responsibilities

• Design and build backend services with Java and Spring Boot.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance user experiences.
• Participate in technical discussions that shape platform features.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

AWS

Agile methodologies

Event-driven architecture

Backend services design

Tools

CircleCI

GitHub

Terraform

Contentful

ElasticPath

Job description

About Charlotte Tilbury Beauty
Founded by British makeup artist and beauty entrepreneur Charlotte Tilbury MBE in 2013, Charlotte Tilbury Beauty has revolutionised the face of the global beauty industry by de-coding makeup applications for everyone, everywhere, with an easy-to-use, easy-to-choose, easy-to-gift range. Today, Charlotte Tilbury Beauty continues to break records across countries, channels, and categories and to scale at pace.

Over the last 10 years, Charlotte Tilbury Beauty has experienced exceptional growth and is one of the most talked about brands in the beauty industry and beyond. It has become a global sensation across 50 markets (and growing), with over 2,300 employees globally who are part of the Dream Team making the magic happen.

Today, Charlotte Tilbury Beauty is a truly global business, delivering market-leading growth, innovative retail and product launches fuelled by industry-leading tech — all with an internal culture of embracing challenges, disruptive thinking, winning together, and sharing the magic. The energy behind the brand is infectious, and as we grow, we are always looking for extraordinary talent who want to be part of this our success and help drive our limitless ambitions.

About the role

We’re looking for motivated, curious, and collaborative engineers who are excited to build game-changing features with luxury-level polish and reliability. If you love solving problems, working across disciplines, and bringing ideas to life, you’ll thrive here.

As a Software Engineer - Backend you will

• Designing and building services in Java with Spring Boot
• Building clean, high-quality and scalable solutions that are easy to test and maintain
• Building highly-available services using AWS (Amazon Web Services)
• Demonstrating knowledge of software architecture and design patterns, as well as experience in enterprise-standard engineering practices and tools (e.g. CI/CD and automated test/deployment)
• Holding discussion on how we refine features and turning ideas into working software
• Collaborating in an Agile team alongside other Engineers, Product Managers and Digital Designers
• Contributing to technical discussions that shape our platform with the broader Engineering team

Who you will work with

At Charlotte Tilbury, you’ll be part of a fast-paced, ambitious environment where your ideas matter and your growth is supported. We invest in our people, offering opportunities to learn, lead, and shape the future of beauty tech. Whether you're building new features, refining user experiences, or optimising performance, your work will have real impact.

We work in SCRUM or Kanban teams, with a strong emphasis on cross-functional collaboration. You’ll partner closely with Engineers, QA, Product Managers, and Designers to build robust, scalable solutions that are as elegant as they are effective. We care deeply about quality, performance, and observability, and we’re always open to challenging convention when it leads to better outcomes.

About you

For backend services we use Java with Spring Boot, in an AWS environment

• We also utilise serverless AWS lambdas, in Java and Python, alongside event-driven architecture using EventBridge and SQS
• 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; CodeDeploy for application deployment; Terraform for infrastructure code
• 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

Why join us?

• Be a part of this values driven, high growth, magical journey with an ultimate vision to empower everyone, everywhere to be the best version of themselves.
• We’re a hybrid model with flexibility, allowing you to work how best suits you.
• 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 fury friend to work with you on our allocated dog friendly days and spaces and not to forget our generous product discount and gifting!

At Charlotte Tilbury Beauty, our mission is to empower everybody in the world to be the most beautiful version of themselves. We celebrate and support this by encouraging and hiring people with diverse backgrounds, cultures, voices, beliefs, and perspectives into our growing global workforce. By doing so, we better serve our communities, customers, employees - and the candidates that take part in our recruitment process.