Staff Full-Stack Engineer (Next.js, Medusa)

Scento; United States; Remote; USD 157,000 - 208,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Home-office budget

Learning budget €2,500/year

30 days paid holiday

Perfume allowance

Job summary

Scento is seeking a Staff Full-Stack Engineer to direct the architecture of its Europe-focused perfume commerce platform. You will shape the Next.js storefront and Medusa-backed backend, optimize performance, and raise reliability as the company scales.

You will lead architectural decisions, implement a fast, secure, multi-currency and multi-language checkout with Stripe, and mentor engineers while collaborating with product, growth, and operations to move the business forward.

Qualifications

• 10+ years building production web systems at senior levels.
• Expert TS, React and Next.js with strong Node.js and PostgreSQL.
• Experience with payments, headless commerce or high-traffic ecommerce.
• Fluent English written and spoken.

Responsibilities

• Shape the architecture of the commerce platform across Next.js storefront and Medusa backend.
• Build and harden the checkout with Stripe for multi-currency and multi-language support.
• Lead on performance and Core Web Vitals to keep pages fast.
• Drive reliability, observability and security from monitoring to incident learning.
• Set engineering standards, review code and mentor engineers at all levels.
• Collaborate with product, growth and operations on business-oriented features.

Skills

TypeScript

React

Next.js

Node.js

PostgreSQL

Payments

Headless commerce

High-traffic ecommerce

Fluent English

Tools

Stripe

Medusa

Job description

About Scento

Scento is Europe's largest perfume decant website. Founded in 2024 and headquartered in Paris on Place Vendôme, with a second office in Berlin, Scento offers more than 1,000 original designer and niche perfumes from a roster of 200 houses as perfume decants: 2 ml, 5 ml and 8 ml vials plus a 30 ml bottle on most perfumes. Niche perfume samples and designer fragrance samples let people discover a scent before they commit to a full bottle. Every perfume is an original bought from authorised European retailers, and every bottle passes a 12-point intake check at Scento's ISO-certified facility before it is decanted.

Scento serves customers in 27 European markets and ships to 26 EU countries. In 2026, Scento's annual revenue is more than €30 million, online and offline sales combined. On Scento.com, monthly decant sales in September 2026 were 3.2 times those of January 2026. Scento says it sells more than 3 million perfume decants a year, about one every 10 seconds. In November 2025, Scento announced it would invest €25 million over three years in European perfume discovery.

The role

Scento runs its own storefront in Next.js and its own commerce backend on Medusa, Node.js, TypeScript and PostgreSQL, with a checkout built in-house on Stripe. It serves customers in 27 European markets, and seasonal peaks such as the perfume advent calendar put real pressure on every layer.

As Staff Full-Stack Engineer you set the technical direction. You make the hard architectural calls, raise the bar for performance and reliability, and pull the engineers around you forward. Success means a platform that stays fast, safe and easy to change as Scento scales.

What you'll do

• - Shape the architecture of Scento's commerce platform across the Next.js storefront and the Medusa backend on PostgreSQL.
• - Build and harden Scento's own checkout with Stripe, including multi-currency and multi-language support.
• - Lead on performance and Core Web Vitals so every page feels instant on every device.
• - Drive reliability, observability and security, from monitoring to incident learning.
• - Set engineering standards, review code and mentor engineers at every level.
• - Work directly with product, growth and operations on features that move the business.

What you'll bring

• - 10+ years building production web systems, several of them at staff or principal level.
• - Expert TypeScript, React and Next.js, with strong Node.js and PostgreSQL.
• - Experience with payments, headless commerce or high-traffic e-commerce.
• - Fluent English.

What we offer

• - Salary at the top of the market plus an annual performance bonus.
• - Remote-friendly within the EU, with offices in Paris (Place Vendôme) and Berlin.
• - The equipment of your choice and a home-office budget.
• - A personal learning budget of €2,500 a year for courses, conferences and books.
• - 30 days of paid holiday a year, plus public holidays.
• - A generous monthly perfume allowance to explore the whole catalogue.
• - Real ownership and fast decisions in a company scaling quickly across Europe.

Salary and how to apply

Salary: €140,000 – €185,000 gross per year, full-time, permanent contract, plus an annual performance bonus.

Location: Berlin or Paris, or remote from anywhere in the EU.