Description
We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer within the Personalised Search team to play a pivotal role in evolving M&S’s Identity Platform.
This team provides the critical software capabilities that power authentication, authorisation, and identity management across M&S digital channels, enabling secure and seamless experiences for millions of customers and thousands of colleagues.
Your “customers” are product teams, engineers, business stakeholders, and millions of M&S customers and colleagues and your mission is to enable them through secure, scalable platforms, resilient services, and exceptional engineering practices.
This is a role for an engineer who is excited by building large-scale identity solutions, modernising authentication platforms, and delivering secure digital experiences that sit at the heart of every customer and colleague interaction with M&S.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and evolve secure, scalable, and high-performance authentication and identity services used by millions of customers and colleagues.
- Own features end-to-end, taking responsibility for solution design, development, testing, deployment, monitoring, and production support.
- Help shape the technical direction of the Identity Platform, balancing customer experience, security, performance, and developer usability.
- Develop resilient APIs and backend services that enable secure authentication, authorisation, and identity management capabilities across the organisation.
- Champion engineering excellence through clean, maintainable, and well-tested code, helping establish best practices across teams.
- Actively participate in code reviews, technical discussions, pair programming, and knowledge-sharing initiatives.
Requirements
- A senior software engineer with significant experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems serving millions of users.
- Strong experience with Java and/or Kotlin and modern backend development frameworks.
- Experience in designing and delivering secure, scalable services within cloud-native environments.
- Strong understanding of DevOps principles, CI/CD pipelines, automation, and operational ownership.
- Comfortable designing systems that balance security, usability, resilience, and performance.
- Experience with identity and access management technologies, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, or similar authentication standards is highly desirable.
Benefits
- 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.