Engineering Manager, Store Payments & Infrastructure

Marks and Spencer; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Marks & Spencer is seeking an Software Engineering Manager for Store Payments & Infrastructure in London. Hybrid role with 3 days in our Paddington office, you will lead teams delivering business-critical store systems in live trading environments.

You will collaborate across multiple engineering groups and vendors to improve reliability, scalability and developer productivity, while guiding technical strategy and platform ownership.

Qualifications

• Hands-on senior software engineering experience in production-critical systems.
• Strong software architecture and cloud design understanding.
• Experience leading high-performing engineering teams delivering reliable software.

Responsibilities

• Lead teams running and evolving store systems in live trading environments.
• Align with technical strategy and drive platform reliability and scalability.
• Own product thinking for store systems, focusing on reliability and developer productivity.
• Manage partners and vendors to ensure delivery outcomes.
• Collaborate with engineering leadership to modernise systems and reduce tech debt.

Skills

Senior software engineering

Cloud technologies

Leadership

DevOps

Stakeholder management

Tools

Kafka

Redis

Dynatrace

Observability

Job description

Marks & Spencer is seeking an Software Engineering Manager for Store Payments & Infrastructure in London. Hybrid role with 3 days in our Paddington office, you will lead teams delivering business-critical store systems in live trading environments.

You will collaborate across multiple engineering groups and vendors to improve reliability, scalability and developer productivity, while guiding technical strategy and platform ownership.