full-stack engineer in e-commerce

Scento is Europe's largest website for perfume decants. Founded in 2024, the company is headquartered in Paris at Place Vendôme and has a second office in Berlin. Scento offers more than 1,000 original designer and niche fragrances from a portfolio of 200 perfume houses as decants: 2 ml, 5 ml and 8 ml bottles, and a 30 ml bottle for most fragrances. As a Staff Engineer, you shape its architecture.

• You design the architecture of Scento's commerce platform: Next.js storefront and Medusa backend on PostgreSQL.
• You build and harden our custom checkout with Stripe, including multiple currencies and languages.
• You lead on performance (Core Web Vitals), reliability, observability and security.
• You set engineering standards, review code and support other engineers in their day-to-day work.
• You work directly with Product, Growth and Operations on high-impact features.
• You make pragmatic decisions between speed and sustainability and make your trade-offs transparent to everyone.

• At least 10 years of experience with production web systems, including several at Staff or Principal level.
• Expert knowledge of TypeScript, React and Next.js, as well as strong knowledge of Node.js and PostgreSQL.
• Experience with payments, headless commerce or high-traffic e-commerce.
• Fluent in English.

• A salary at the top end of the market plus an annual performance bonus.
• Remote-friendly within the EU, with offices in Paris (Place Vendôme) and Berlin.
• A generous monthly perfume budget to explore the entire catalog.
• A personal learning budget of €2,500 per year for courses, conferences and books.
• The equipment of your choice and a home office budget.
• 30 days of paid vacation per year, in addition to public holidays.
• Real responsibility and fast decisions in a rapidly growing company in Europe.
• €140,000 to €185,000 gross per year, full-time, permanent, plus an annual performance bonus.