About Charlotte Tilbury Beauty
Founded by British makeup artist and beauty entrepreneur Charlotte Tilbury MBE in 2013, Charlotte Tilbury Beauty has revolutionised the face of the global beauty industry by de-coding makeup applications for everyone, everywhere, with an easy-to-use, easy-to-choose, easy-to-gift range. Today, Charlotte Tilbury Beauty continues to break records across countries, channels, and categories and to scale at pace.
Over the last 10 years, Charlotte Tilbury Beauty has experienced exceptional growth and is one of the most talked about brands in the beauty industry and beyond. It has become a global sensation across 50 markets (and growing), with over 2,300 employees globally who are part of the Dream Team making the magic happen.
Today, Charlotte Tilbury Beauty is a truly global business, delivering market-leading growth, innovative retail and product launches fuelled by industry-leading tech — all with an internal culture of embracing challenges, disruptive thinking, winning together, and sharing the magic. The energy behind the brand is infectious, and as we grow, we are always looking for extraordinary talent who want to be part of this our success and help drive our limitless ambitions.
About the role
We’re looking for motivated, curious, and collaborative engineers who are excited to build game-changing features with luxury-level polish and reliability. If you love solving problems, working across disciplines, and bringing ideas to life, you’ll thrive here.
As a Software Engineer - Backend you will
· Designing and building services in Java with Spring Boot
· Building clean, high-quality and scalable solutions that are easy to test and maintain
· Building highly-available services using AWS (Amazon Web Services)
· Demonstrating knowledge of software architecture and design patterns, as well as experience in enterprise-standard engineering practices and tools (e.g. CI/CD and automated test/deployment)
· Holding discussion on how we refine features and turning ideas into working software
· Collaborating in an Agile team alongside other Engineers, Product Managers and Digital Designers
· Contributing to technical discussions that shape our platform with the broader Engineering team
Who you will work with
At Charlotte Tilbury, you’ll be part of a fast-paced, ambitious environment where your ideas matter and your growth is supported. We invest in our people, offering opportunities to learn, lead, and shape the future of beauty tech. Whether you're building new features, refining user experiences, or optimising performance, your work will have real impact.
We work in SCRUM or Kanban teams, with a strong emphasis on cross-functional collaboration. You’ll partner closely with Engineers, QA, Product Managers, and Designers to build robust, scalable solutions that are as elegant as they are effective. We care deeply about quality, performance, and observability, and we’re always open to challenging convention when it leads to better outcomes.
About you
For backend services we use Java with Spring Boot, in an AWS environment
· We also utilise serverless AWS lambdas, in Java and Python, alongside event-driven architecture using EventBridge and SQS
· On the front-end React, Redux, TypeScript, Node.js, NextJS and SCSS, and test with Jest, Enzyme, React testing library and Cypress
· Orchestration of our test and deployment process using CircleCI with GitHub, Maven; CodeDeploy for application deployment; Terraform for infrastructure code
· We use Contentful and ElasticPath as our content and commerce engines respectively
· We also use Optimizely to run A/B testing on the features we build
Why join us?
- Be a part of this values driven, high growth, magical journey with an ultimate vision to empower everyone, everywhere to be the best version of themselves.
- We’re a hybrid model with flexibility, allowing you to work how best suits you.
- 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays) with an additional day to celebrate your birthday.
- Inclusive parental leave policy that supports all parents and carers throughout their parenting and caring journey.
- Financial security and planning with our pension and life assurance for all.
- Wellness and social benefits including Medicash, Employee Assist Programs and regular social connects with colleagues.
- Bring your fury friend to work with you on our allocated dog friendly days and spaces and not to forget our generous product discount and gifting!
At Charlotte Tilbury Beauty, our mission is to empower everybody in the world to be the most beautiful version of themselves. We celebrate and support this by encouraging and hiring people with diverse backgrounds, cultures, voices, beliefs, and perspectives into our growing global workforce. By doing so, we better serve our communities, customers, employees - and the candidates that take part in our recruitment process.
Top Skills
What We Do
With over 27 MAGICAL years in the beauty industry, Charlotte Tilbury MBE - the world’s No1 makeup artist - launched her ICONIC beauty company in September 2013 to record-breaking results and critical acclaim.
The success since has been truly phenomenal. The award-winning collection of magic makeup and skincare innovations is adored by supermodels, starlets, entrepreneurs & icons. It is one of the fastest growing beauty companies GLOBALLY, has won countless awards and has broken records across countries, channels and categories.
We have SO many exciting opportunities for you to join the Dream Team in our beautiful Central London Head Office.
At Charlotte Tilbury Beauty, we love what we do and strive to be the best. Dare to dream it, dare to believe it, dare to do it! Join our team of LIMITLESS THINKERS and RULE BREAKERS and help make beauty dreams come true ALL around the world!
We can’t wait to hear from you!
