Burberry Software Engineer

London England UK

Location
London England UK
Employment
Full-time
Seniority
Mid-Level
Department
IT & Technology Systems
Industry
Fashion, Apparel & Leather Goods
Posted
23, 2026

About Burberry

Burberry Limited, a quintessentially British luxury fashion house, is renowned for its innovative designs and commitment to quality. As part of the global luxury conglomerate, Burberry offers a dynamic and inclusive work environment where creativity and excellence are at the forefront. The company is dedicated to fostering a culture that encourages diversity and sustainability, making it a leader in the luxury industry.

Burberry is recruiting three permanent Engineers for its Commerce, Content, and Fulfilment squads. The role designs, builds, tests, deploys, and operates production software in a DevOps model, contributing to product delivery, reliability, and engineering quality; it requires four days a week in Burberry’s Central London office.

Role & Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, test, deploy, and operate software within the assigned squad, working from user stories, acceptance criteria, and technical specifications produced by Product Analysts.
  • Write clean, maintainable, secure, well-tested code in line with engineering standards and best practices defined by the Engineering Manager.
  • Participate in agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, refinement, stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives, contributing engineering input on estimation, sequencing, and approach.
  • Refine the backlog by assessing technical feasibility, identifying risks and dependencies early, and shaping stories into deliverable increments.
  • Own the operational health of the squad’s product in a DevOps model, including monitoring, incident response, root cause analysis, and reliability improvements, in collaboration with Digital Operations.
  • Conduct peer code reviews, provide constructive technical feedback, and uphold engineering quality across the squad.
  • Build and maintain automated tests, including A/B tests, to support continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines.
  • Collaborate with Solution Architects to align implementation with approved solution designs, escalating design constraints, non-functional requirements, or trade-offs that need revisiting.
  • Support and challenge third-party delivery partners embedded in the squad, scrutinising their approach, estimates, and quality and holding them to Burberry engineering standards.
  • Contribute to the squad’s technical roadmap by raising technical debt, platform constraints, and innovation opportunities with the Lead Engineer and Senior Engineering & Delivery Lead.
  • Build and retain deep product, platform, and domain knowledge, contributing to the squad’s continuity over time.
  • Support knowledge-sharing across the Digital engineering community through communities of practice, internal documentation, and onboarding new joiners.
  • Adhere to security, data protection, accessibility, and technical governance standards in all delivered work.

Qualifications

  • Proven hands-on software engineering experience in a product-oriented digital technology environment, ideally with consumer-facing web and/or commerce platforms.
  • Strong technical craft across relevant parts of the digital technology stack, with the ability to design, build, test, and operate production software.
  • Comfort working in an agile, Scrum-based delivery model, with experience contributing to ceremonies and shaping stories from refinement through release.
  • Experience operating within a DevOps model, including responsibility for monitoring, alerting, incident response, and reliability engineering.
  • Solid grounding in modern engineering practices: CI/CD, automated testing, version control, code review, infrastructure-as-code, and observability.
  • Awareness of and adherence to security, data protection, and accessibility considerations in software development.
  • Sufficient confidence and technical credibility to scrutinise and challenge third-party partner output where appropriate.
  • Collaborative team contributor able to work within a small, cross-functional squad; comfortable with shared ownership, peer review, and continuous improvement.
  • Demonstrated appetite to retain and deepen domain knowledge over time, contributing to a long-lived squad.
  • Experience in retail, luxury, e-commerce, or consumer goods is beneficial.
  • Able to work from Burberry’s Central London office four days a week.

Skills

Software design, development, testing, deployment, and operations CI/CD Automated testing A/B testing Version control Code review Infrastructure-as-code Observability Monitoring and alerting Incident response Root cause analysis Reliability engineering Agile and Scrum

Workplace

This position is based in London, England, UK.

The setting England

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Culture

Burberry fosters a creative and inclusive workplace culture that values diversity and sustainability. The company is committed to being a force for good, driving industry change and championing community engagement.

About Cerulean

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Burberry Software Engineer

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