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 Staff Software Engineer in Commercial Trading, your expertise will help us on this journey, creating solutions for the business that are robust and scalable, with good observability and metrics, following best-in-class engineering practice.
Your key accountabilities will include:
- Lead the architecture, design and delivery of scalable software solutions, distributed systems and modernisation initiatives that support critical store operations across M&S.
- Provide technical leadership on complex, high-impact projects, driving engineering excellence through code reviews, deployment optimisation and adoption of engineering best practices.
- Collaborate with stakeholders across Product, Delivery, Architecture, Infrastructure and senior leadership to deliver solutions aligned to business priorities, technology strategy and operational requirements.
- Drive operational excellence by ensuring high availability, observability, resilience and continuous improvement across platforms and services.
- Mentor and coach engineers at all levels, supporting capability development, knowledge sharing and fostering a high-performing engineering culture.
Who you are Your skills and experience will include:
- Strong hands-on experience developing enterprise applications using Java, Spring Boot, Micronaut, REST APIs, microservices architecture and event-driven technologies.
- Proven expertise in modern software engineering practices including CI/CD, automated testing, source control and DevOps principles, with a strong ownership mindset.
- Experience designing, deploying and supporting scalable cloud-native solutions using Azure, Kubernetes, Docker and modern platform technologies.
- Strong understanding of operational excellence, observability, resilience and production support, including monitoring, performance optimisation and security best practices.
- Excellent leadership, stakeholder management and mentoring skills, with the ability to influence technical direction and drive continuous improvement across engineering teams.
Desirable Experience Knowledge of the Retail domain, particularly around product lifecycle or merchandise and sales planning, is of interest, but not a necessity.
Tech stack The teams use a variety of technologies, including:
- Java, Spring, SpringBOOT, Micronaut
- React, Next.js, Typescript
- Angular, Azure Cloud
- Kubernetes, Dynatrace (observability)
- SQL Server, MongoDB
- Ignite, Redis
What's in it for you Working at M&S means being part of something bigger - helping to deliver quality, value and service to millions of customers every day.
Here are just a few of the benefits that make working here even more rewarding:
- 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.