Competence Lead/Software Engineer - Global Payments Area

Company Description


Are you a Software Engineer that wants to work with one of the fashion industry’s biggest tech transformations and create state of the art solutions to make an impact on a global scale? Do you have the ability to lead a team of like-minded Software Engineers, mentor and grow their capabilities and lead by example? Then this is the opportunity for you!

You will work within the Global Payments Area and be part of our technology transitions into decoupled services, micro services architecture in a cloud environment.
The H&M Group is on an exciting journey to meet and exceed our customers' expectations today, tomorrow and in the future. Rapid technological development and new customer behaviours are transforming the fashion retail industry. To cater the individual needs and desires of our millions of customers, Business Tech delivers technological solutions for the entire value chain for all our brands.
We explore new ways of working, have a customer-focused mindset, embrace our strong values and release the power of our people to innovate and develop products that make a meaningful impact to customers all over the world.


Job Description


Join us as a Software Engineer / Competence Lead and deliver a modern world class digital workplace experience enabling H&M Group colleagues to delight and surprise our customers - today, tomorrow and in the future.
What will you do?
As a Competence Lead you will have staff responsibility for employees within the same/adjacent competence as your own, working in different product teams within the same product area. Your staff responsibility goes across different Product Teams and tasks include development conversations, salary review and other staff related activities. You will support, coach and help your team members grow and develop.
You will work closely with the product owners within the product area, as well as other competence leads, software engineers and business experts. You will be able to try out your creative and innovative ideas – and have a large impact on how we shape the future of fashion retail logistics.
As a software engineer you are expected to take part of all phases of the software development lifecycle, design, development, test, release and maintenance and translates business needs into working software. This is achieved through continuous attention to technical excellence and good design, with extensive use of automation.
Your responsibilities
You will be a part of a small cross-functional and cross-competent team with great opportunity to impact a big organization. By contributing with your own delivery within your team you have a clear connection with the ongoing business to remain a relevant speaking partner for the employees. Within the Global Payments Area you will have a broad view of the colleague needs and see the connections between larger business goals, customer needs and priorities.


Some of your daily work includes:
• Develop, coach and keep an ongoing dialogue with members in your competence team.
• Remain compliant with laws and policies, and act when necessary regarding e.g. under performance, work environment, etc.
• Recruit new employees in your competence area.
• Contribute with Software Engineer expertise in the Payments context to improve and develop products that solve business problem and aim to create a best-in-class payments customer experience·
• Design, develop and support the solutions in the products.
• Translate strategies and requirements into modern and scalable solution designs.
• Use an experimental mindset to identify, evaluate and recommend alternative designs.
• Collaborate with other 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.


Qualifications


Who are you?
As a Software Engineer / Competence Lead at H&M Group 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:
Previous experience of people management for software engineers
• 7+ years of coding experience, in C# or Java, preferred experience in event driven design and clean code principles.
• Experience of designing and developing cloud-based, mission-critical APIs and microservices solutions as well as identifying and applying relevant software design patterns.
• Experience in working with Microsoft Azure cloud environment and resources like API Management, Kubernetes, Cosmos DB and other.
• Have a “you build it you run it” mindset
• Experience of DevOps and CI/CD in cloud environments
It’s a plus if you:
• Have acted as a leader and have experience from servant leadership within an agile framework.
• Previous work experience in Payments or FinTech with an understanding of payments regulations, PCI, PSD2 etc.


Additional Information


We are a family of brands, driven by our desire to make great design available to everyone in a sustainable way. We develop tech solutions and products for the entire value chain for the H&M Group with the purpose to meet and exceed our customers' expectations. Working in multiple areas of the tech field, from AI, data, and business development to engineering and testing - we are influencing and engaging millions of customers across 74 markets. We welcome your application regardless of gender, age, gender expressions, sexual orientation, disabilities, religious beliefs, origin, or background.
This is a fulltime position with placement in Stockholm (Marievik). Please apply with your CV and Personal letter as soon as possible, no later than 10th of May If you have any questions about the recruitment, please contact Talent Acquisition Partner Dia Gangwani at dia.gangwani@hm.com. We are looking forward to your application!