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

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

Benefits offered by this job

Top market salary

Remote-friendly within the EU

Office in Paris or Berlin

Home-office budget

€2,500 learning budget

30 days paid holiday

Perfume allowance

Fast decision ownership

Job summary

Scento, Europe\'s largest perfume decant store, runs its storefront in Next.js and its backend on Medusa, Node.js and PostgreSQL.

As Staff Full-Stack Engineer you set the technical direction, make architectural calls, raise performance and reliability, and mentor engineers toward fast, safe changes as Scento scales.

This role offers remote-friendly work across the EU with offices in Paris and Berlin, a generous learning budget, and a perfume allowance to explore the catalogue.

Qualifications

• 10+ years building production web systems.
• Expert in TypeScript, React and Next.js.
• Strong Node.js and PostgreSQL experience.
• Experience with payments and headless commerce.
• Fluent English.

Responsibilities

• Shape the architecture of the commerce platform across the Next.js storefront and the Medusa backend on PostgreSQL.
• Build and harden 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.

Skills

TypeScript

React

Next.js

Node.js

PostgreSQL

Payments experience

Headless commerce

High-traffic e-commerce

Fluent English

Tools

Medusa backend

Stripe

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.