Staff Software Engineer, Payments Platform & Cloud

Marks & Spencer Plc; England; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Staff discount

Holiday allowance

Discretionary bonus

Pension and life assurance

Training and development

Wellbeing support

Job summary

Marks & Spencer is transforming into a digital-first, engineering-led organisation, and you’ll join the Software Engineering team to shape the payments platform that powers experiences for millions of customers.

The Staff Software Engineer - Payments Platform will lead the design and delivery of scalable, secure payment capabilities, mentor engineers and drive DevOps, CI/CD and observability across high-volume environments.

Qualifications

• Strong Java software engineering experience.
• Experience operating large-scale cloud platforms (Azure preferred).
• Understanding of platform engineering, SRE principles, observability and monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end payment platform outcomes across key payment products, ensuring reliability, security, performance and resilience during peak trading periods.
• Lead design and delivery of complex payment capabilities, delivering secure, scalable and maintainable solutions.
• Shape the technical direction and architecture of payment systems, aligning with business and technology strategy.
• Drive engineering excellence through DevOps, automation, operational improvements and incident management.
• Mentor and support engineers through coaching, code reviews and knowledge sharing.

Skills

Java

Cloud platforms

SRE

CI/CD

GitHub Actions

Observability

DevOps

Mentoring

Tools

Dynatrace

CI/CD Toolchains

GitHub Actions

Job description

Marks & Spencer is transforming into a digital-first, engineering-led organisation, and you’ll join the Software Engineering team to shape the payments platform that powers experiences for millions of customers.

The Staff Software Engineer - Payments Platform will lead the design and delivery of scalable, secure payment capabilities, mentor engineers and drive DevOps, CI/CD and observability across high-volume environments.