Senior Software Engineer, Food Platform & Data Pipelines

Marks and Spencer; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Colleague discount

Holiday allowance

Bonus schemes

Pension & life

Induction & training

Perks portal

Family policies

Wellbeing support

Volunteer day

Job summary

Marks & Spencer's Foods Product team is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their data platform and empower fast, reliable data delivery across supplier systems and pricing data.

You'll design and ship scalable data services in Java/Micronaut, work with Kafka, and collaborate with Product Managers and colleagues to drive value with clean architecture, security and observability. Hybrid London role.

Qualifications

• Significant experience building and scaling data-intensive distributed systems.
• Strong proficiency in JVM-based technologies, particularly Java, with Micronaut experience.
• Hands-on DevOps experience: CI/CD pipelines and automation (GitHub Actions, IaC like Terraform).
• Cloud experience, preferably Azure, plus data integration tech (Kafka, SFTP, SQL/MongoDB).
• Experience designing data models, contracts and schema evolution.
• Ability to balance strategic thinking with pragmatic delivery.
• Focus on software quality, security and observability (Dynatrace, Snyk, Semgrep).
• Interest in AI-assisted development with tools like GitHub Copilot.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve data services by designing scalable pipelines and APIs in Java/Micronaut, integrating with Kafka.
• Own features end-to-end from design to production support, prioritising maintainability.
• Shape the Food Platform architecture with clean data contracts and schemas.
• Promote engineering excellence through reviews, documentation and best practices.
• Drive observability and reliability with monitoring and alerting (Dynatrace).
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Engineering, Supply Chain and Commercial teams.
• Mentor colleagues to grow engineering capability and foster an inclusive culture.

Skills

Java

Micronaut

Kafka

CI/CD

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Azure

React

TypeScript

Dynatrace

Tools

Dynatrace

Kubernetes

Snyk

Semgrep

Terraform

GitHub Actions

SQL Server

MongoDB

Job description

Marks & Spencer's Foods Product team is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their data platform and empower fast, reliable data delivery across supplier systems and pricing data.

You'll design and ship scalable data services in Java/Micronaut, work with Kafka, and collaborate with Product Managers and colleagues to drive value with clean architecture, security and observability. Hybrid London role.