# Senior Software Engineer - Payment Capabilities

**Company**: Marks & Spencer
**Location**: United Kingdom
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Retail

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## Description

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to play a pivotal role in evolving M&S's Payments Platform.

This team provides the critical software capabilities that power online payments across the business, enabling millions of customers to complete purchases securely, reliably, and seamlessly across all M&S digital channels.

Your “customers” are product teams, engineers, business stakeholders, and ultimately millions of M&S customers , and your mission is to make them faster, more effective, and more confident through scalable services, resilient integrations, and exceptional engineering practices.

This is a role for an engineer who is excited by building high-volume transactional systems, solving complex payment challenges, and modernising technology platforms that sit at the heart of M&S's online growth ambitions.

### Responsibilities

- Design, build, and evolve payment services and capabilities that enable seamless customer transactions across M&S digital platforms.

- Develop resilient backend services, APIs, and integrations that support millions of customer payment journeys every year.

- Own features end-to-end, taking responsibility for solution design, development, testing, deployment, and production support.

- Help shape the technical direction of the Payments platform, balancing performance, scalability, resilience, security, and cost through modern engineering practices.

- Champion engineering excellence through clean, maintainable, and well-tested code, helping establish best practices across engineering teams.

- Drive operational excellence by designing systems with observability, monitoring, resilience, and supportability at their core.

- Utilise tools such as Dynatrace to improve platform visibility, monitoring, alerting, and service reliability.

### Who You Are

- A senior backend software engineer with deep experience designing and delivering scalable, resilient systems in complex enterprise environments.

- Strong Java engineering expertise with experience building enterprise services, APIs, and integrations across distributed systems.

- Knowledge in designing systems that serve large customer populations while maintaining high availability, performance, and security.

- Experience working with ecommerce platforms, payment services, or highly transactional systems is advantageous.

- Passionate about software quality, testing, maintainability, and engineering best practices.

- Strong understanding of CI/CD, observability, production support, and operational excellence.

### Benefits

- 20% colleague discount across M&S products and selected third-party brands.

- Competitive holiday entitlement with the potential to buy extra holiday days.

- Discretionary bonus schemes awarded based on personal and business performance.

- A generous Defined Contribution Pension Scheme and Life Assurance.

- A tailored induction and extensive learning and development opportunities.

- Amazing perks and discounts via the M&S Choices platform, including GymSave and the opportunity to become an M&S Shareholder.

- A dedicated charity volunteer day to support a cause you're passionate about.

- Access to a fantastic range of wellbeing support, including a 24/7 Virtual GP and wellbeing services.

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- Dynatrace
- CI/CD
- observability
- production support
- operational excellence

### Nice to have
- ecommerce platforms
- payment services
- highly transactional systems

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