Competence Lead - App Development

Job Description
Are you an App Developer with leadership skills that wants to work with one of the fashion industry’s biggest tech transformations? Do you want to create state of the art solutions to make an impact on a global scale? Then this is the opportunity for you!
Job Description
As Competence Lead at H&M you will have dual focus – staff responsibility and hands on coding. You will also act as the employer's extended arm – to follow and implement H&M Group's vision, goals, strategies and values, as well as acting as an ambassador always supporting your employees.
What will you do?
We asked one of our Competence Leads what a normal day could look like, this is what she told us:
“A normal day starts with opening e-mails and going through the to-do’s of the day. Followed up by a check-in with an employee, coaching them around their work and how the team is doing. You jump into your own team’s stand-up and move on to spend some alone time to do your individual work for the team. After lunch you participate in the management team meeting to discuss leadership and WoW in the area. This is followed by a couple of hours of pair programming with a team member. To finish up the day you start prepping for tomorrow's refinement and go over your stories to be prepared.”
Some of your daily work includes:
Design, develop and support the solutions in the products
Collaborate with other cross functional global product teams to help and provide the best end-user experience
Seek opportunities to automate, document and improve processes
Work with performance management and salary review for your employees
Collaborate with Product owners and Agile coaches on development and workforce planning
Remain compliant with laws and policies, and act when necessary regarding e.g. under performance, work environment, etc.
Recruiting new employees

Who are you?
To be successful in this role we believe you are equally passionate about being a leader supporting, coaching and helping your team members grow. And we believe you have the ability to apply leading software development practices and present alternative solutions and technical choices. To do this, we think you have a curious mindset, excellent communication skills as well as:
Have acted as a leader for other developers in a leading role eg. Team Lead, Scrum Master or similar
Excellent programming skills in iOS and/or Android
Have knowledge about different design patterns that help you write high quality, clean and testable code.
Experience in agile software development practices (automated testing, mob/pair programming, CI/CD etc.)
Understanding and experience of the value that automated testing brings

Who are we?
H&M Group is a family of brands with the desire to make great design available to everyone in a sustainable and circular way. Rapid technological development is transforming the fashion retail industry. We are seizing this opportunity to not only challenge ourselves, but the whole industry with the aim to be the most impactful ecosystem.
We operate on a large scale across 74 markets. From AI to data-driven business development, user experience to engineering, we turn business challenges into innovative tech solutions – making H&M Group a global leader in combining tech, fashion, and design.
The Customer Domain
We build strong relationships between brands and our customers, new and existing, with digital capabilities and data. Utilizing digital capabilities and data, our brands are always available, relevant and meaningful. This is done by optimizing and developing our four key areas Future Commerce Platform, Checkout as a Service, Customer Activation & Loyalty and Staff & Service Empowerment.
We are looking for competence leads in two of our product areas; Customer Core Assets and Checkout. Depending on where your skills and interests lay you can be relevant for different teams.
What can we offer?
Besides the obvious perks such as staff discount card, flexible work life, learning communities, wellness benefits, parental benefits etc. You are joining a unique value driven culture, a large tech network and community where you can be yourself.
Additional information
This is a fulltime position with placement in Stockholm. Please apply with your CV and Personal letter as soon as possible, no later than January 30th. If you have any questions about the recruitment process, please contact Talent Acquisition Partner Sara Lindström, sara.lindstrom@hm.com
The response can be longer since many of us are on vacation during the summer. We will get back to you as soon as we are back from vacation and appreciate your patience.