# Staff Software Engineer - Payments Platform

**Company**: Marks & Spencer
**Location**: London, GB
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Retail

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## Description

As a Staff Software Engineer - Payments Platform at Marks & Spencer, you will own end-to-end payment platform outcomes across key payment products, ensuring reliability, security, performance, and resilience during peak trading periods.

Your responsibilities will include:

- Leading the design and delivery of complex payment capabilities, making high-quality technical decisions that result in secure, scalable, and maintainable solutions.

- Shaping the technical direction and architecture of payment systems, working closely with architects and engineering leaders to align with business and technology strategy.

- Driving engineering excellence through DevOps, automation, operational improvements, and incident management, reducing repeat failures and improving service performance.

- Mentoring and supporting engineers through coaching, code reviews, and knowledge sharing, helping to build strong payment domain expertise across the engineering community.

To be successful in this role, you will need:

- Strong software engineering experience with Java preferred, alongside the ability to select the right technologies and approaches for complex business problems.

- Deep expertise operating large-scale cloud-based platforms and high-traffic applications, with experience across Azure (preferred), AWS, or GCP.

- Strong understanding of platform engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles, observability, and monitoring tools such as Dynatrace or equivalent.

- Experience implementing CI/CD practices and modern DevOps tooling, ideally including GitHub Actions and automated delivery pipelines.

- A passion for engineering quality, testing, mentoring others, and driving continuous improvement across teams and platforms.

In return, you will receive a range of benefits, including:

- 20% colleague discount on all M&S products and many third-party brands for you and someone in your household.

- 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.

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- Azure
- AWS
- GCP
- GitHub Actions
- Dynatrace
- CI/CD
- DevOps
- Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
- Cloud infrastructure
- platform engineering

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