Engineering Manager — Lead Scalable Web & Cloud Teams (Hybrid)

MARKS&SPENCER; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

20% colleague discount on M&S products

Competitive holiday allowance

Discretionary bonus schemes

Strong pension and life assurance

Tailored induction and training

Exclusive perks and savings via M&S X

Family policies (par ental, adoption,

Neonatal leave

Job summary

Marks & Spencer is seeking a senior software engineering leader to build and mentor a high-performing, polyglot team delivering scalable web and backend systems. You’ll oversee agile delivery, set technical standards, and drive DevOps practices across cloud-native architectures.

You’ll partner with product and design to align technical roadmaps with business goals, manage budgets, and champion quality and reliability across the portfolio.

Qualifications

• Previous polyglot hands-on senior 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
• Promoter of DevOps: you build it, you run it.

Responsibilities

• Team Management: Build, mentor, and manage a high-performing software engineering team. Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement within the team. Facilitate communication and collaboration among team members. Ensure budgets, people and resource allocation, and workload, balance across projects.
• Agile Delivery: Oversee the planning, execution, and delivery of software projects, ensuring alignment with business objectives and timelines. Monitor project progress, risks, and dependencies, taking corrective action when necessary. Work closely with product management, design, programme management, and others to define project scope, goals, and deliverables.
• Technical Leadership: Drive the adoption of standards, and methodologies for software development. Provide technical guidance and support to engineering teams for complex projects. Evaluate and recommend new technologies, tools, and platforms to improve the engineering process and software quality. Work with senior engineers to develop the team's technical roadmap and support the product management team to prioritise it against the commercial roadmap.
• Quality Assurance and Maintenance: Establish and enforce quality standards, ensuring software products meet performance, reliability, and usability requirements. Oversee the maintenance and support of existing software systems, ensuring prompt resolution of issues and bugs.

Skills

Senior software engineer

Team leadership

Agile delivery

DevOps

Cloud architecture

High scalability

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Java

Spring

Spring Boot

Micronaut

React

Next.js

Typescript

Angular

Azure Cloud

Kubernetes

Dynatrace

SQL Server

MongoDB

Ignite

Redis

Job description

Marks & Spencer is seeking a senior software engineering leader to build and mentor a high-performing, polyglot team delivering scalable web and backend systems. You’ll oversee agile delivery, set technical standards, and drive DevOps practices across cloud-native architectures.

You’ll partner with product and design to align technical roadmaps with business goals, manage budgets, and champion quality and reliability across the portfolio.