Description
As part of the M&S Software Engineering team, you'll be joining a well-loved historic brand, working on solutions that serve millions of loyal customers and thousands of colleagues.
As a Senior Software Engineer within our Commercial Trading domain, your expertise will help drive this transformation by creating robust, scalable and resilient solutions that deliver value across the business.
Your key accountabilities will include:
- Developing, testing and debugging high-quality software solutions, leading by example and championing engineering best practices across the team.
- Providing technical leadership within projects, guiding engineers on solution design, implementation approaches and software engineering standards.
- Leading the design and delivery of scalable, adaptable software solutions and third-party integrations, partnering closely with Architecture teams where appropriate.
- Conducting thorough code reviews to ensure adherence to technical standards, maintainability, automated testing strategies and high-quality code, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
- Collaborating closely with business stakeholders, product managers and engineers to understand business challenges and design effective technology solutions.
- Mentoring engineers across the team, sharing knowledge and experience to support their technical growth and career development.
- Driving operational excellence through effective monitoring, alerting, incident response processes and continuous learning from operational events.
The team uses a variety of modern technologies, including:
- Backend: Java, Spring, Spring Boot, Micronaut
- Frontend: React, Next.js, TypeScript, Angular
- Cloud & Infrastructure: Azure Cloud, Kubernetes
- Observability: Dynatrace
- Databases: SQL Server, MongoDB
- Caching & Performance: Ignite, Redis
Benefits include:
- 20% colleague discount on all M&S products and many third-party brands for you and someone in your household, available once you've completed your probation.
- Competitive holiday allowance with the option to buy more.
- Discretionary bonus schemes linked to your performance and ours.
- Strong pension and life assurance to help plan for the future.
- Tailored induction and training to support your development from day one.
- Exclusive perks and savings through our M&S Choices portal.
- Market-leading family policies, including parental, adoption and neonatal leave.
- 24/7 wellbeing support, including virtual GP access and mental health services.
- One paid volunteer day a year to support a cause that matters to you.