Staff Software Engineer - Product and Commercial Trading

Marks and Spencer; City Of London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A well-known UK retailer is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to modernize critical systems and optimize warehouse management software. You will lead technical initiatives, ensuring high-quality, reliable solutions while leveraging a variety of technologies. Collaboration with multi-functional teams will be essential to craft effective solutions. Strong expertise in software development and DevOps practices is required. Join this inclusive organization committed to innovation and transformation in retail.

Qualifications

• Build and maintain high-quality, reliable software with automation in the cloud.
• Own complex backlog tasks and deliver routinely while managing significant issues.
• Support engineers with clean code through reviews and pair programming.
• Drive DevOps practices to automate solutions through innovation.

Responsibilities

• Develop, test, and debug WMS software solutions for performance and data integrity.
• Lead the design of adaptable software architectures supporting warehouse operations.
• Ensure technical standards and consistent code quality through thorough reviews.
• Collaborate with operations partners and product managers for effective solutions.

Skills

Software Development

Technical Leadership

Collaboration

Automation

Code Review

Tools

OracleDB

MongoDB

Terraform

SpringBoot

Java 11+

IBM MQ

Kafka

Azure Data Factory

PowerBI

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 in Product and Commercial Trading, you will be a driving force behind the modernisation of critical systems for M&S, as we scale. As a technical leader, you will be collaborating with many multi‑functional teams to design, build, and maintain the software that powers our warehouse operations. Your expertise will help us create a best‑in‑class engineering environment while ensuring our systems are robust, scalable, and reusable across our multiple warehouses.

What You’ll Do

Your key accountabilities will include

• Software Development: Develop, test, and debug software solutions to customise and optimise our warehouse management system (WMS), ensuring it can perform at scale, maintain data integrity, and integrate seamlessly with other critical systems in the estate.
• Technical Leadership: Bring engineering excellence and modern tooling and practices to the Supply Chain space, providing expert guidance on sophisticated projects, ensuring that software solutions align both with our strategy, technology standards, and engineering best practice.
• Architecture and Design: Lead the design of scalable and adaptable software architectures which support multiple, and differing, warehouse operations from a single codebase.
• Code Review: Conduct thorough code reviews to ensure consistency to technical standards, maintainability, and high‑quality code. Foster a culture of continuous improvement.
• Collaboration: Gain a deep understanding of our supply chain, working with key operations partners, product managers, and other engineers to be able to craft the most effective technical solutions.

Who You Are

Your skills and experience will include

• Build and maintain high‑quality, reliable software and own it with a high degree of automation in the cloud.
• Take ownership for complex tasks in the backlog and deliver them routinely and can manage and address any significant issues. Develop/improve M&S standard frameworks and policies, ensuring that they are understood and adopted.
• Support other engineers to produce clean, quality code through code reviews and pair programming.
• Drive DevOps practices to automate the Product development life cycle and solution through experimentation and innovation as a culture.

Tech Stack

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

• Database Technologies including OracleDB, MongoDB
• Terraform, SpringBoot, Micronaut
• Java 11+ (preferred)
• Queues – IBM MQ, Kafka
• Reporting built with Azure Data Factory and PowerBI

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.