Staff Software Engineer: Platform & Store Ops Leader

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

Benefits offered by this job

20% colleague discount on all products

Competitive holiday allowance

Discretionary performance-based bonus schemes

Strong pension and life assurance

24/7 wellbeing support including virtual GP

One paid volunteer day per year

Job summary

Marks and Spencer is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join their Store Operations C&H team. This role involves leading technical projects and building colleague-facing applications to enhance stock management processes across stores and distribution centres.

The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in Java and various cloud technologies, alongside a commitment to mentoring and developing a modern software engineering culture.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in most of the core tech stack areas.
• Expert understanding of software development practices.
• Strong experience of DevOps: you build it, you run it, you support it.

Responsibilities

• Write, test, and debug code for complex features and distributed systems.
• Provide technical guidance and support on complex projects.
• Lead the architecture, design, and development of large-scale projects.

Skills

Java 21+

REST APIs with Micronaut and Spring Boot

Relational database (Azure SQL / SQL Server / PostgreSQL)

MongoDB (NoSQL database)

Event processing with Kafka

CI/CD with GitHub Actions and Azure pipelines

Microservice architecture

Azure DevOps, Kubernetes, Docker

Observability tools: Dynatrace, New Relic

Job description

Marks and Spencer is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join their Store Operations C&H team. This role involves leading technical projects and building colleague-facing applications to enhance stock management processes across stores and distribution centres.

The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in Java and various cloud technologies, alongside a commitment to mentoring and developing a modern software engineering culture.