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Company DescriptionWe're ASOS. We blend our flair for fashion with our love of cutting- edge technology, but more importantly were interested in how we can bring the best out of you.We exist to give people the confidence to be whoever they want to be, and that goes for our people too. At ASOS, you're free to be your true self without judgment, and channel your creativity into a platform used by millions.Want to be a part of the team responsible for targeted, personalised, global delivery of content here at ASOS?Wexe2x80x99re obsessed with delivering great customer experiences and our content is integral to that.As a Software Engineer in the Content Platform Team, youxe2x80x99ll be using cutting edge technology to deliver content globally and at a huge scale.We are using the one of the latest versions of Sitecore CMS (v10) and working directly with the Sitecore Product Teams to push the product to its limits and beyond. We work extensively with Sitecore to deliver a world class implementation.Operating in an organisation that follows a Micro-Services architecture, means that the Content Platform Team not only deliver CMS solutions, but also APIs and services built on Azure Kubernetes Service to distribute and scale the solutions. Everything is delivered on Azure and we have a clear strategic vision to evolve our platform in Azure in line with Microsoftxe2x80x99s technology roadmap. We use automated deployment pipelines, exploring the limitations of all our tech and following the highest engineering and DevOps principles.You would be part of a team, who own, build and run the entire platform. This is a team where the culture drives delivery xe2x80x93 not the other way round. We are focused on people development (both technical and personal); on doing the right thing; and on having fun whilst doing it. We work in mature, well-disciplined, self-organising scrum teams; and youxe2x80x99ll be part of an awesome Engineering community, who are passionate about personal development, skills development, coaching, training and knowledge sharing.If you are a driven Software Engineer that wants to work with the best tech, on innovative customer experiences, in an amazing team, with great potential for personal growth and development, then we would really like to hear from you.Here are some of the things we offerxe2x80xa6An environment where learning, training, ongoing personal development and knowledge sharing is embedded in and underpins everything we do (Ask us about Tech Develops!)Long term career planning, code craftsmanship courses, mentoring, masses of training material and internal and external coursesA highly experienced and collaborative engineering community and well-established career pathsA place in a team which works directly with both Sitecore and Microsoft on high scale, exciting projects and solutions for our global customer baseQualificationsWe'd love to meet someone with some of the skills below (a perfect skills match is not necessary) xe2x80xa6A solid understanding of ASP.NET (MVC, Web API), C#, .NET/.NET Core, REST and Visual StudioA solid understanding of Sitecore and Content Management concepts and principlesPublishingWorkflowAuthoring / EditingRenderingsLayoutsSearchFamiliarity GlassmapperFamiliarity with Docker, containers and container orchestrators (e.g k8s)An understanding of networking and CDNsSQL ServerAn understanding of TDD, BDD and the basics of performance and load testingA basic understanding of distributed computing and cloud design patternsAwareness of SOLID principlesExperience of source control systems such as GIT and itxe2x80x99s branching strategiesAn understanding of the application development lifecycle - build, test, deploy, supportA commitment to self-improvement (where you'll be supported every step of the way by ASOS!)A passion for, and experience in developing high quality, maintainable and extensible solutionsA friendly, helpful, team-orientated attitudeAdditional InformationWhat's in it for you?

• Competitive salary, pension, and private medical care scheme
• Performance related bonus
• Flex benefits allowance - which you can chose to take as extra cash, or use towards other benefits
• 25 days paid annual leave + an extra day for your birthday
• Employee discount (hello ASOS discount!)
• Tech Develops - our internal tech focussed skills development programme to focus on your personal growth as a technologist
• Opportunity to represent ASOS at industry leading events
• Opportunity to help shape and drive our DE&I initiatives in Tech (like our WIT movement and Diversity mentoring in Tech)
• Opportunity to make an impact from day one and work with the latest in cutting edge of technology

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