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.
This role sits within the International Pricing team, supporting M&S's International business across stores and online markets outside the UK and Ireland.
Your expertise will help us on this journey, creating solutions for the business that are robust, scalable and secure, with strong observability, clear metrics and best-in-class engineering practices.
Key Accountabilities:
- Develop, test and debug high-quality software solutions, leading by example and championing engineering best practices across the team.
- Provide technical leadership on complex projects, ensuring software solutions align with technology strategy, architectural principles and engineering standards.
- Lead the design and implementation of scalable software solutions and third-party integrations, partnering closely with Architecture teams to deliver adaptable and resilient systems.
- Conduct thorough code reviews to ensure maintainability, automated testing coverage, technical quality and adherence to engineering standards while fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
- Collaborate with product managers, business stakeholders and engineers to understand business challenges and deliver effective technical solutions.
- Mentor and coach engineers at all levels, sharing knowledge and creating opportunities for technical growth and development.
- Drive operational excellence through effective monitoring, alerting, incident management and continuous learning from production events and operational insights.
Requirements:
- Proven track record developing high-performing, robust backend systems and integrations, with a focus on optimisation, scalability and reliability.
- Deep understanding of software engineering principles, patterns and best practices, applied to the development of maintainable, adaptable and resilient solutions.
- Strong understanding of automated testing strategies and tools, and how they should be applied across unit, integration and system testing levels.
- Proven hands-on experience implementing DevSecOps practices at scale across enterprise applications and technology platforms.
- Technical proficiency across a variety of programming languages and technologies, including Java, PL/SQL, JavaScript and modern CI/CD tooling.
- Experience designing and implementing scalable cloud-native applications with a strong focus on performance, resilience, observability and security.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- A mentoring mindset with a genuine passion for sharing knowledge, raising engineering standards and helping others develop.
- Knowledge of AI/ML technologies and GenAI tools such as Copilot, with practical experience implementing AI-enabled tools and agents across the software development lifecycle.
Benefits:
- 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.