Software Engineering Manager - Product & Commercial Trading

M&S; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading retail company in Greater London is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build and manage a high-performing team. You will oversee Agile delivery of software projects, drive adoption of standards, and ensure quality assurance and maintenance. The ideal candidate has a strong background in scalable software solutions, excellent system design skills, and experience leading engineering teams. M&S offers attractive benefits, including discounts, bonuses, and wellness support.

Benefits

20% colleague discount on M&S products

Competitive holiday allowance

Discretionary bonus schemes

Strong pension and life assurance

Tailored training programs

Market-leading family policies

24/7 wellbeing support

One paid volunteer day a year

Qualifications

• Previous experience as a senior software engineer with hands-on roles required.
• Extensive experience with various systems and technologies.
• Proven ability to build and lead high-performing software engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Build, mentor, and manage a high-performing software engineering team.
• Oversee software delivery projects ensuring alignment with business objectives.
• Drive adoption of software development standards and methodologies.

Skills

Polyglot programming

Highly scalable software solutions

Team leadership

System design and architecture

DevOps practices

Tools

Java

Spring

React

Azure Cloud

Kubernetes

Job description

Job Description

What You’ll Do

• Team Management: Build, mentor, and manage a high‑performing software engineering team. Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement. 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 adoption of standards and methodologies for software development. Provide technical guidance and support to engineering teams on 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 maintenance and support of existing software systems, ensuring prompt resolution of issues and bugs.

Who You Are

Your skills and experience will include:

• 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)
• Event Streaming Platform with Kafka
• Supply chain SaaS tools - Blue Yonder, PIM systems
• Ignite, Redis

What’s In It For You

Working at M&S means being part of something bigger – helping to deliver quality, value and service to millions of customers every day. We’re inclusive, fast‑moving and always evolving, with a strong sense of purpose and a focus on doing the right thing.

Here are just a few of the benefits that make working here even more rewarding:

• 20% colleague discount on all M&S products and many third‑party brands for you and someone in your household, available once you’ve completed your probation
• Competitive holiday allowance with the option to buy more
• Discretionary bonus schemes linked to your performance and ours
• Strong pension and life assurance to help plan for the future
• Tailored induction and training to support your development from day one
• Exclusive perks and savings through our M&S Choices portal
• Market‑leading family policies, including parental, adoption and neonatal leave
• 24/7 wellbeing support, including virtual GP access and mental health services
• One paid volunteer day a year to support a cause that matters to you

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.