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.