Staff Software Engineer - Online (Post Purchase Experience)

Marks & Spencer Plc; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A popular retail company in Greater London is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to aid in creating robust software solutions and provide technical leadership. The role involves developing front-end systems, ensuring code quality, and collaborating with colleagues on effective technical solutions. Ideal candidates should possess a strong background in software engineering and experience with a variety of programming languages and tools.

Qualifications

• Proven track record in developing high-performing, robust front-end systems.
• Deep understanding of software engineering principles for maintainable code.
• Knowledge of automated testing at all technology levels.

Responsibilities

• Develop, test, and debug software solutions with best practices.
• Provide guidance on complex projects to follow technology standards.
• Lead design of scalable software solutions in collaboration with architects.

Skills

High-performing front-end systems development

Software engineering principles

Automated testing practices

Proficiency in programming languages

Design scalable applications

Tools

React

Java

Git

Azure Cloud

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.

As a Staff Software Engineer your expertise will help us on this journey, creating solutions for the business that are robust and scalable, with good observability and metrics, following best-in-class engineering practice.

What You’ll Do

Your key accountabilities will include

• 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.

Who You Are

Your skills and experience will include

• Proven track record in developing high-performing, robust front-end systems, with a focus on customer experience.
• 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 front-end and back-end technologies.
• Technical versatility and proficiency in a range of relevant programming languages (e.g. JavaScript, Java) 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.

Tech Stack

M&S uses a variety of technologies and as part of our modernization drive, will be introducing new ones. The sorts of technologies include:

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