Software Engineering Manager - Financial Services

ENGINEERINGUK; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join an innovative company as a Software Engineering Manager, where you'll lead a talented team in delivering high-quality software solutions. This role emphasizes collaboration, technical leadership, and a commitment to excellence, ensuring a seamless product experience for users. You'll drive the technology strategy, optimize deployment pipelines, and foster a culture of continuous improvement. With a focus on ethical values and a dynamic work environment, this position offers the chance to make a significant impact while enjoying a range of employee benefits that enhance your personal and professional life.

Benefits

20% colleague discount

Competitive holiday entitlement

Discretionary bonus schemes

Defined Contribution Pension Scheme

Life Assurance

Tailored induction and training programmes

Parental and adoption policies

Wellbeing support

Charity volunteer day

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in software engineering with a focus on scalable solutions.
• Strong leadership skills with a history of managing and mentoring engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and architecture of scalable systems and services.
• Manage team structure, hiring, and coaching for engineers.

Skills

Software Engineering

Technical Leadership

Agile Methodologies

System Design

Cloud Technologies

Team Management

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

React

Java

Kotlin

Micronaut

Azure Cloud

GitHub

New Relic

Dynatrace

Job description

Software Engineering Manager - Financial Services - London

Sector: Retail and Wholesale
Role: Manager
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time

Summary
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! With ethical values that run right through the company's core and technology leaders that truly understand software engineers and engineering, it's an exciting time as we're redefining ourselves into a digital first and engineering-led organisation, with the quality of our engineering team being a key differentiator.

About the Role
We are seeking a passionate Software Engineering Manager who will provide technical expertise, ship thoughtfully and operate with excellence to build the systems and services for M and S financial business all while making the product experience seamless for our users and customers.

Being kind, creative, curious, and confident, you will be an integral part of our empowered, multi-disciplinary engineering teams - building resilient systems. You will be closely working with Principal engineers, product and delivery peers to drive the successful delivery of projects and features.

What You'll Do

1. Software Development & Architecture: Responsible for design and architectural decisions, developing scalable and distributed systems, and driving legacy migrations. Focused on optimizing deployment pipelines to enhance efficiency and reliability.
2. Quality, Stability & Standards: Establish quality standards to meet performance, reliability, and maintainability of the systems. With a strong production-first mindset, drive observability, maintain Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and ensure efficient incident resolution. Oversee the maintenance of existing systems, ensuring continuous improvements and prompt resolution of issues.
3. Agile Delivery & Collaboration: Working closely with product, design, and programme management, you will lead the engineering delivery aligning to the business objectives. Collaboration will be key as you engage with senior leadership, cross-functional teams, and external partners to drive strategy and execution.
4. Technical Leadership: You will provide technical direction on high-impact projects, tackling engineering challenges within the team. Engage in code reviews, ensuring high standards, maintainability, and alignment with best practices. Foster a culture of continuous improvement, technical excellence, and shared learning across the team.
5. Hiring, Team Growth & Management: Manage team structure, budgets, resource allocation across projects. Hiring and onboarding new engineers, ensuring a seamless transition into the team. Coaching and mentoring engineers at all levels, tailoring your approach to help them grow into more senior technical and leadership roles.
6. Technology Strategy & Knowledge Sharing: Driving innovation and continuous improvement across the team, managing technology roadmap, ensuring long-term strategic alignment. Lead on documentation efforts and internal tech talks, sharing knowledge and best practices to strengthen the technical community.

Who You Are
Recognize that great engineering is as much about people as it is about technical expertise and lead with empathy.
Previous polyglot hands-on lead software engineer.
Experience working on highly scalable software solutions across web or backend.
Extensive background in software engineering with several years' experience in a variety of systems and technologies.
Experience building and leading teams of highly skilled, senior software engineers that deliver high-quality software.
Excellent understanding of system design, software architecture, cloud, and software engineering standard methodologies.
Great leadership and coaching skills with the ability to develop engineering colleagues.

Tech stack
React (Next.js / Typescript), GraphQL Federation, Java, Kotlin, Micronaut, Azure Cloud, GitHub, New Relic and Dynatrace.

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 outstanding 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.