Staff Full-Stack Engineer (Next.js, Medusa)

## About Scento

Scento is Europe's largest perfume decant website. Founded in 2024 and headquartered in Paris on Place Vendôme, with a second office in Berlin, Scento offers more than 1,000 original designer and niche perfumes from a roster of 200 houses as perfume decants: 2 ml, 5 ml and 8 ml vials plus a 30 ml bottle on most perfumes. Niche perfume samples and designer fragrance samples let people discover a scent before they commit to a full bottle. Every perfume is an original bought from authorised European retailers, and every bottle passes a 12-point intake check at Scento's ISO-certified facility before it is decanted.

Scento serves customers in 27 European markets and ships to 26 EU countries. In 2026, Scento's annual revenue is more than €30 million, online and offline sales combined. On Scento.com, monthly decant sales in September 2026 were 3.2 times those of January 2026\. Scento says it sells more than 3 million perfume decants a year, about one every 10 seconds. In November 2025, Scento announced it would invest €25 million over three years in European perfume discovery.

## The role

Scento runs its own storefront in Next.js and its own commerce backend on Medusa, Node.js, TypeScript and PostgreSQL, with a checkout built in-house on Stripe. It serves customers in 27 European markets, and seasonal peaks such as the perfume advent calendar put real pressure on every layer.

As Staff Full-Stack Engineer you set the technical direction. You make the hard architectural calls, raise the bar for performance and reliability, and pull the engineers around you forward. Success means a platform that stays fast, safe and easy to change as Scento scales.

## What you'll do

* Shape the architecture of Scento's commerce platform across the Next.js storefront and the Medusa backend on PostgreSQL.
* Build and harden Scento's own checkout with Stripe, including multi-currency and multi-language support.
* Lead on performance and Core Web Vitals so every page feels instant on every device.
* Drive reliability, observability and security, from monitoring to incident learning.
* Set engineering standards, review code and mentor engineers at every level.
* Work directly with product, growth and operations on features that move the business.

## What you'll bring

* 10+ years building production web systems, several of them at staff or principal level.
* Expert TypeScript, React and Next.js, with strong Node.js and PostgreSQL.
* Experience with payments, headless commerce or high-traffic e-commerce.
* Fluent English.

## What we offer

* Salary at the top of the market plus an annual performance bonus.
* Remote-friendly within the EU, with offices in Paris (Place Vendôme) and Berlin.
* The equipment of your choice and a home-office budget.
* A personal learning budget of €2,500 a year for courses, conferences and books.
* 30 days of paid holiday a year, plus public holidays.
* A generous monthly perfume allowance to explore the whole catalogue.
* Real ownership and fast decisions in a company scaling quickly across Europe.

## Salary and how to apply

**Salary:** €140,000 – €185,000 gross per year, full-time, permanent contract, plus an annual performance bonus.

**Location:** Berlin or Paris, or remote from anywhere in the EU.

To apply, email your CV and LinkedIn profile (and portfolio, if you have one) to [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) with “Staff Full-Stack Engineer (Next.js, Medusa)” in the subject line.

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