Engineering Manager — Lead Scalable Systems & Teams

MARKS&SPENCER; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Colleague discount

Holiday allowance

Bonus schemes

Pension and life assurance

Induction & training

Perks portal

Family policies

Wellbeing support

Volunteer day

Job summary

Marks & Spencer’s Software Engineering team is seeking a Software Engineering Manager to lead multi-disciplinary teams delivering scalable web/backend solutions. You’ll shape technical roadmaps, drive reliability and operational excellence and partner with Product and Delivery to maximise business value.

The role emphasizes strong people leadership, hands-on engineering, and a modern digital, engineering-led culture within a historic brand.

Qualifications

• Hands-on software engineering background with scalable web/backend experience.
• Experience leading senior engineers and delivering high-quality products.
• Strong design, cloud, and modern software development practices.

Responsibilities

• Build, mentor and lead high-performing software engineering teams, fostering collaboration and accountability.
• Oversee planning and delivery of high-quality software solutions aligned with business goals.
• Provide technical leadership to shape roadmaps and engineering standards.

Skills

Polyglot engineer

People leadership

System design

Cloud engineering

DevOps & SRE

Stakeholder management

Software architecture

Tools

React

Next.js

TypeScript

Java

Kotlin

Swift

GraphQL

Azure

Dynatrace

Job description

Marks & Spencer’s Software Engineering team is seeking a Software Engineering Manager to lead multi-disciplinary teams delivering scalable web/backend solutions. You’ll shape technical roadmaps, drive reliability and operational excellence and partner with Product and Delivery to maximise business value.

The role emphasizes strong people leadership, hands-on engineering, and a modern digital, engineering-led culture within a historic brand.