Software Engineering Manager - Post Purchase

Marks & Spencer Plc; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading retail company in Greater London is seeking a Software Engineering Manager to lead a high-performing team and oversee the delivery of scalable software solutions. The role involves technical leadership, quality assurance, and the implementation of agile methodologies. Candidates should have extensive software engineering experience, particularly in building and leading highly skilled teams. Familiarity with cloud technologies is a plus. This position fosters collaboration and an inclusive environment.

Qualifications

• Experience as a polyglot hands-on senior software engineer.
• Experience working on highly scalable software solutions.
• Extensive background in software engineering with varied systems and technologies.
• Experience building and leading teams of senior software engineers.
• Excellent understanding of design and architectural standards.

Responsibilities

• Build and manage a high-performing software engineering team.
• Oversee the planning, execution, and delivery of software projects.
• Drive adoption of standards and methodologies for software development.
• Establish quality standards for software products.
• Ensure maintenance and support for existing software systems.

Skills

Team management

Agile delivery

Technical leadership

Quality assurance

System design

Software architecture

DevOps

Cloud technologies

Tools

Java

Spring

React

Azure Cloud

SQL Server

MongoDB

Job description

As part of the M&S Software Engineering team, you’ll be joining a well‑loved historic brand, working on solutions that serves millions of loyal customers and thousands of colleagues! With ethical values that run right through the company’s core and technology leaders that truly understand software engineers and engineering, it’s an exciting time as we’re redefining ourselves into a digital first and engineering‑led organisation, with the quality of our engineering team being a key differentiator.

We are seeking a passionate Software Engineering Manager who will provide technical expertise, ship thoughtfully and operate with excellence. Being creative, curious, and confident, you will be an integral part of our empowered, self‑managing, multi‑disciplinary engineering teams - designing, building, releasing, and maintaining products. You will play a key role in driving our ambition to create a best‑in‑class software engineering team, environment, and culture.

What You’ll Do

The Software Engineering Manager role is the embodiment of ‘solving problems through technology’ with key responsibilities as follows:

• 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.

Who You Are

• 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.

Tech Stack

M&S uses a variety of technologies including;

• Java, Spring, SpringBOOT, Micronaut
• React, Next.js, Typescript, Angular
• Azure Cloud, Kubernetes, Dynatrace (observability)
• SQL Server, MongoDB
• Ignite, Redis

Everyone’s Welcome

We are ambitious about the future of retail. We’re disrupting, innovating and leading the industry into a more conscientious, inspiring digital era. We’re transforming how we work together and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. Marks & Spencer strives to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers and suppliers. Join us and make change happen.

We are committed to building diverse and representative teams, where everyone can bring their whole selves to work and be at their best. We support each other and work together to win together.

If you feel you’d benefit from any support or reasonable adjustments during any stage of the recruitment process, please don’t hesitate to let us know when completing your application. This information will be picked up by our team, so we can try and put steps in place to help you be at your best through this process.