Staff Software Engineer - Commercial Trading

MARKS&SPENCER; Greater London; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

20% Colleague discount

Annual bonus

Generous holiday entitlement

GymSave discounts

Job summary

Marks & Spencer is seeking a senior software engineer to join its software engineering team in London. You will build robust backend systems, drive architectural decisions, and mentor engineers while collaborating with product managers and other engineers to deliver scalable, secure solutions.

You will contribute to design reviews, implement automated testing, and uphold engineering standards across frontend and backend components in a fast-paced retail environment.

Qualifications

• Proven track record in building scalable backend systems.
• Strong understanding of software engineering principles and patterns.
• Experience with automated testing and CI/CD pipelines.
• Hands-on with cloud architectures and security best practices.

Responsibilities

• Develop, test, and debug software with a focus on quality.
• Provide technical leadership across complex projects.
• Lead design of scalable software and integrations with stakeholders.
• Conduct thorough code reviews and promote best practices.
• Collaborate with product managers and engineers to deliver effective tech solutions.
• Mentor engineers and support their growth.
• Ensure systems are well monitored and resilient with proper incident response.

Skills

Backend development

Technical leadership

Architecture & design

Code reviews

Collaboration

Mentorship

Operational excellence

Innovation

Cloud proficiency

Communication

Tools

Java

Spring

Spring Boot

Micronaut

React

Next.js

Typescript

Angular

Azure Cloud

Kubernetes

Dynatrace

SQL Server

MongoDB

Redis

Job description

Summary

As part of the M&S Software Engineering team, you'll be joining a well-loved historic brand, working on solutions that serve 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.

What You'll Do

• Software Development: Develop, test, and debug software solutions, taking a lead on what good coding practices look like.
• Technical Leadership: Provide expert guidance on complex projects, ensuring that software solutions align both with our strategy, technology standards, and follow engineering best practice.
• Architecture and Design: Lead the design of scalable and adaptable software solutions or 3rd party integrations, whilst partnering with colleagues in Architecture.
• Code Review: Conduct thorough code reviews to ensure adherence to technical standards, maintainability, automated testing and high-quality code. Foster a culture of continuous improvement.
• Collaboration: Gain a deep understanding of our area, working with key business stakeholders, product managers, and other engineers to be able to craft the most effective technical solutions.
• Mentorship: Mentor and coach engineers at all levels, sharing your knowledge and experience to help them grow and develop their skills.
• Operational Excellence: Ensure our systems are well monitored, with good alerting, and tooling to support incident response and investigation. Ensure learnings are fed back into the development process.
• Innovation: Stay abreast of emerging technologies. Propose and implement innovative solutions to improve our operations and enhance customer service.

Who You Are

• Proven track record in developing high-performing, robust backend systems and integrations, with a focus on optimisation and scalability.
• Deep understanding of software engineering principles, patterns, and practices, applied to the development of maintainable and adaptable code.
• Good understanding of automated testing practices and toolsets, and how they are best applied at unit, integration, and system levels, across both back and front-end technologies.
• Technical versatility and proficiency in a range of relevant programming languages (e.g. Java, PL/SQL, JavaScript) and tools (e.g. Git, CI/CD pipelines).
• Expertise in designing and implementing scalable applications on cloud infrastructure, with a focus on performance and security.
• Clear communicator who can convey complex technical concepts to diverse audiences, fostering collaboration and understanding.
• Possess a mentorship mindset with a genuine desire to share knowledge and empower others to reach their full potential.

Desirable Experience

• Knowledge of the Retail domain, particularly around product lifecycle or merchandise and sales planning, is of interest, but not a necessity

Tech stack

The teams use a variety of technologies, including:

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

What's in it for you

Being a part of M&S is exactly that - becoming a part and playing your part. We're an inclusive, dynamic, exciting, and always evolving business built on core values.

Here are some of the benefits we offer that make working for M&S just that little bit more special...

• 20% Colleague discount on most things from furniture, fashion and food.
• A first-class welcome to M&S with a tailored induction and a wide range of training schemes to help with your learning and development. Having options to progress is something we're proud of at M&S.
• Attractive annual bonus, based on company performance and personal objectives.
• Competitive holiday entitlement with the potential to buy extra holiday days!
• Amazing perks and discounts via our M&S Choices website. Including GymSave - that offers up to 25% off Gym Memberships and the option to become an M&S Shareholder using our ShareSave & ShareBuy Schemes
• Charity Volunteer Day - A paid day away from work to support your chosen charity.
• A very generous Defined Contribution Pension Scheme and Life Assurance
• Every colleague at M&S has access to a fantastic range of wellbeing support - this includes access to our 24/7 Virtual GP, PAM Assist to support you & your family as well as many other schemes

Everyone's welcome

M&S is ready to push boundaries to lead the retail industry into a greener, speedier, more inspiring digital era. That's why we're revolutionising how we work and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. There's never been a better time to be part of our team. Marks & Spencer aims to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers and suppliers. Join us and make an immediate impact.

We're an in‑person business and have core collaboration days in our Support Centre each week. For most teams, this is 3 working days where we come together to collaborate, innovate, and serve our customers brilliantly.

We are committed to an active Inclusion, Diversity and Equal Opportunities Policy, which starts with our recruitment and selection process, and we are happy to talk flexible working.

If you consider yourself to require reasonable adjustments to any part of our recruitment process, we invite you to share those requirements with us when completing your application. We will make every effort to ensure your needs are met to provide a fair and transparent process of assessment.