Senior Backend Engineer: Pricing & Promotions Platform

Marks & Spencer Plc; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

20% colleague discount

Competitive holiday entitlement

Discretionary bonus

Pension scheme

Training programs

Wellbeing support

Volunteer day

Job summary

Marks & Spencer is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to evolve the Price Domain, building scalable backend services and APIs to support pricing and promotions across multiple product areas. You will work on high-volume transactional systems with event-driven architecture and modern microservices.

You will design and own backend features, collaborate with product teams, and ensure reliability, performance, and resilience across distributed systems.

Qualifications

• Senior backend engineer with production experience.
• Experience designing scalable services and APIs.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and evolve backend services powering pricing and promotions.
• Develop scalable microservices and APIs with Java/Kotlin.
• Contribute to event-driven architectures using Kafka.
• Design GraphQL and REST APIs with strong developer experience.

Skills

Java/Kotlin

Backend design

Kafka

GraphQL

REST APIs

Databases (MongoDB/Redis/PostgreSQL)

Distributed systems

Event-driven

Tools

Kafka

GraphQL

REST

Job description

Marks & Spencer is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to evolve the Price Domain, building scalable backend services and APIs to support pricing and promotions across multiple product areas. You will work on high-volume transactional systems with event-driven architecture and modern microservices.

You will design and own backend features, collaborate with product teams, and ensure reliability, performance, and resilience across distributed systems.