Engineer 2, Experience (Purchase/Profile)

About A&F Co:

At ANSR, we operate A&F Co. Bengaluru, a hub of digital transformation delivering services exclusively to our client, Abercrombie & Fitch Co. (A&F Co.). A&F Co. is a global, digitally led omnichannel specialty retailer of apparel and accessories catering to kids through millennials with assortments curated for their specific lifestyle needs.

Now is your opportunity to join us and develop dynamic tech solutions to meet the needs of A&F Co.s rapidly growing global business. For over 20 years now, companies cutting across size, industry and markets have relied on our expertise to successfully build global business and technology teams. We can help you land a rewarding career in this dynamic industry.

Here, you'll be part of a team working on Digital Engineering & Architecture, Data & Analytics and Digital Operations to build inclusive experiences and outstanding products. Ready to usher in a digital revolution Apply today.

Disclaimer: Candidates will initially be employed under ANSR and subsequently transitioned to A&F Co. Bengaluru.

Position Title:Experience Engineer (Engineer2) – Digital Experiences Engineering

Location: Bengaluru, India.

The Experience Engineer provides leadership, direction and implementation on technical projects that affect all A&F consumer brand ecommerce sites. This role will work within a team to implement new features and functionality as well as maintain, support, and upgrade existing functionality. In addition, this role will utilize prior eCommerce experience to identify and implement improvements in current technology implementations. The duties will also include driving teams in designing software solutions to meet project requirements, maintaining and refactoring existing code, writing tests, and fixing bugs. This role is also responsible for guiding, mentoring, and coaching team members to achieve technical solutions in accordance with Abercrombie and Fitch Co.s engineering guidelines.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain the UI tier making use of industry best practices.
• Works with product team understand project requirements & builds reusable code and libraries for future use.
• Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability.
• Creating technical documentation – Designing architecture, flow diagrams, documenting technical implementation approaches and pseudocode.
• Implement rapid updates fulfill changing business and marketing requirements.
• Develop functional and technical documentation and designs for assigned projects.
• Work within a team environment, supporting the team goals, and improving the web development engineering practices.
• Analyze and optimize front end architecture to maximize page performance.
• Utilize SASS to create responsive page layouts and styles.
• Support peers & juniors providing ideas and constructive feedback during brainstorming sessions.
• Set and evolve standards and best practices for our application development teams.
• Develop code consistent with A&F standard coding practices.
• Lead effort in modernizing frontend UI layer.
• Collaborate with global teams on various technical implementations and discussions.
• Assist Tech Leads, Delivery Managers and Product Managers with team/work status, technical roadmaps, estimations, innovation roadmaps.
• Use AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Cursor, Copilot, Claude) in daily workflows to accelerate development, improve code quality, and explore solution options faster.
• Contribute to an AI-forward engineering culture by sharing practical AI workflows, patterns, and guardrails with the team.
• Apply AI support across refinement, coding, testing, and documentation while maintaining engineering quality standards.

Qualifications:

Abercrombie & Fitch Co. is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer:

• BA/BS Degree in Computer Science, MIS, related field, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience in a related field, writing semantic, modular front-end code using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Experience in all phases of the software development life cycle, including analysis, design, unit test, system test, deployment, and production support.
• Understanding of the concept of progressive enhancement.
• In-depth knowledge of mobile first responsive design.
• Familiarity with browser testing and debugging.
• Experience developing code compliant with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG).
• Experience with CI/CD theory and automated testing workflows.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Cursor, Claude, ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot) in production engineering workflows.
• Experience working on Agile Teams.
• Experience with the following languages, technologies, or methodologies:
• HTML5, SASS/CSS3.
• CSS frameworks (ex. SASS, LESS).
• Expert level knowledge on React, ES6, and legacy jQuery stacks, UI & unit tests using various libraries, e.g.: Mocha, Jasmine, Jest, Playwright etc.
• Workflow automation using Grunt/Gulp.
• Knowledge of React and common tools used in the wider React ecosystem, such as Node.js and NPM.
• Knowledge of React/JavaScript design patterns (MFE/BFF, Flux, Redux, Hooks)
• Experience using performance optimization tools (YSlow, Pagespeed, Dynatrace, FullStory, Quantum Metrics).
• Understanding & working experience in Monolithic & Micro Frontend Architectures. Experience with Microservices.
• Understanding & strategizing DevOps principles, builds, pipelines, branching, supporting release activities.
• Experience using backend technologies such as RESTful APIs and GraphQL.
• Good understanding of browser rendering behavior and performance.
• Ability to review document specifications and provide technical inputs on successfully implementing business solutions.
• Understanding & knowledge of localization/internationalization principles like i10n, i18n etc.
• Experience with code quality standards and tools like Sonar.
• Experience writing rudimentary SQL statements (SELECT, UPDATE, INSERT, DELETE)
• Understanding of SEO/ SEM best practices.
• Knowledge of emerging AEO/GEO best practices.
• Experience working on JSP/JSTL or equivalent server-side templating language (PHP, ASP).