Staff Software Engineer Product and Commercial Trading

Marks & Spencer Plc; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading retail company in Westminster seeks a Staff Software Engineer to modernize systems, collaborating across teams to enhance software that optimizes warehouse operations. The ideal candidate will have experience with Java, DevOps practices, and a passion for creating scalable solutions. Join a company committed to diversity and innovation, offering competitive benefits and a supportive workplace environment.

Benefits

20% colleague discount

Competitive holiday entitlement

Discretionary bonus schemes

Defined Contribution Pension Scheme

Tailored induction and training programmes

Financial and personal wellbeing perks

Industry-leading parental policies

Access to a 24/7 Virtual GP

Charity volunteer day

Qualifications

• Proven experience in developing reliable, high-quality software.
• Strong technical leadership and ability to implement best practices.
• Experience managing complex tasks and driving DevOps culture.

Responsibilities

• Develop and optimize warehouse management software.
• Lead technical design and architecture for scalable solutions.
• Guide teams through code reviews and maintain coding standards.

Skills

High-quality software development

Technical leadership

Collaboration

DevOps practices

Tools

Java 11+

OracleDB

MongoDB

Terraform

SpringBoot

Kafka

Azure Data Factory

PowerBI

Job description

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

What’s In It For You

Being a part of M&S is exactly that – playing your part to bring the magic of M&S to our customers every day. We’re an inclusive, dynamic, exciting, and ever evolving business built on doing the right thing and bringing exceptional quality, value, service to every customer, whenever, wherever and however they want to shop with us.

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

• After completing your probationary period, you’ll receive 20% colleague discount across all M&S products and many of our third-party brands for you and a member of your household.
• Competitive holiday entitlement with the potential to buy extra holiday days!
• Discretionary bonus schemes awarded based on how you achieve your personal objectives and our performance as a business.
• A generous Defined Contribution Pension Scheme and Life Assurance.
• A dedicated welcome to our teams with a tailored induction and a wide range of training programmes to develop your skills.
• Amazing perks and discounts via our M&S Choices portal to maximise your financial and personal wellbeing.
• Industry-leading parental, adoption and neonatal policies, providing support and flexibility for your family.
• Access to a fantastic range of wellbeing support for all colleagues including access to our 24/7 Virtual GP and PAM Assist to support you and your family.
• A charity volunteer day to support a charity or cause you're passionate about through a dedicated day away from work.

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.