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.
We are seeking a passionate Head of Software Engineering who will provide technical expertise, ship thoughtfully and operate with excellence. Being creative, curious, and confident, you will be an integral part of our empowered, self-managing, multi-disciplinary engineering teams - designing, building, releasing, and maintaining products.
The Head of Software Engineering role is the embodiment of 'solving problems through technology' with key responsibilities as follows:
- Lead, develop and inspire Engineering Managers and teams, fostering a strong learning culture, high-quality engineering standards, and clear development and talent strategies.
- Partner closely with Product, Delivery and Technology leadership to shape strategy, prioritise roadmaps, solve complex problems, and maximise value to colleagues and customers.
- Drive technical excellence and modern engineering practices, including clean code, automation, architecture design, and the adoption of standard frameworks, AI, policies, and North Star principles.
- Own Sub-domain outcomes and health, setting OKRs, ensuring reliability, quality, and full operational support across products.
- Champion innovation, continuous improvement and agile ways of working, encouraging experimentation, pragmatism, and commercially sound delivery.
- Build and scale high-performing teams and communities, leading recruitment, onboarding, coaching, Communities of Practice, and contributing to wider engineering brand and culture.
Our core mobile technologies include:
- Swift, SwiftUI
- Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Hilt
- Wiremock, Appium, XCUITest, Espresso
Additionally M&S uses a variety of technologies across the wider business, including:
- React, Next.js, Typescript
- Java, Kotlin, Python, Rust
- GraphQL Federation
- Azure Cloud
- GitHub, GitHub Actions, Co-Pilot
What's in it for you
Being a part of M&S is exactly that – playing your part to bring the magic of M&S to our customers every day. We're an inclusive, dynamic, exciting, and ever evolving business built on doing the right thing and bringing exceptional quality, value, service to every customer, whenever, wherever and however they want to shop with us.
Here are some of the benefits we offer that make working for M&S just that little bit more special…
- After completing your probationary period, you'll receive 20% colleague discount across all M&S products and many of our third-party brands for you and a member of your household.
- Competitive holiday entitlement with the potential to buy extra holiday days!
- Discretionary bonus schemes awarded based on how you achieve your personal objectives and our performance as a business.
- A generous Defined Contribution Pension Scheme and Life Assurance.
- A dedicated welcome to our teams with a tailored induction and a wide range of training programmes to develop your skills.
- Amazing perks and discounts via our M&S Choices portal to maximise your financial and personal wellbeing.
- Industry-leading parental, adoption and neonatal policies, providing support and flexibility for your family.
- Access to a fantastic range of wellbeing support for all colleagues including access to our 24/7 Virtual GP and PAM Assist to support you and your family.
- A charity volunteer day to support a charity or cause you're passionate about through a dedicated day away from work.