Staff Software Engineer - Stock Domain

Why Digital & Tech at M&S We're changing the way we do things and putting industry leading innovation at the heart of how we operate; we need a stellar engineering team to make it happen. You'll be joining one of the most iconic brands in the UK on its most exciting cycle yet. We're more integrated and product led in our tech teams than ever before: learning, changing, and adapting constantly, with millions of people benefiting from your work every single day.

The Product

We have a genuine ambition to become engineering first, building and operating an elite digital platform. We are looking for people to join our community of engineers to support this transformation, build a modern digital ecosystem.

Scope

We are seeking a passionate Staff Software Engineer to join an emerging domain team. You will be a driving force behind the modernisation of critically important systems for M&S, as we scale. As a technical leader, you will be collaborating with multiple multi-functional teams to design, build and maintain an enterprise stock system which scales across supplier integration, online, stores, clothing and home, food, marketing, personalisation, planning and finance. Your expertise will help us create a best-in-class engineering environment while ensuring our systems are robust and scalable. 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.

What you'll do:

Lead the strategy of the domain, work with the stakeholders closely to proactively clarify business requirements Develop/improve M&S standard frameworks and policies, ensuring that they are understood and adopted Drive recruitment strategy and hiring plans Active participation and contribution to Communities of Practice with a focus on positive momentum Promote technology, innovation, values, and ways of workings within the team and wider community Inspire ideas to foster purpose and mastery to engineering team, leading them towards autonomy and maturity

Who you are:

Design, build and maintain high-quality, reliable software with a strong emphasis on automation. As a DevOps team, we embrace a “build it, run it, maintain it” mindset, ensuring end-to-end ownership and accountability Confident driving system design conversations, building systems characterised by high levels of risk, impact, and business or technical complexity Champion extreme programming techniques such as pair programming, continuous delivery, collective code ownership and incremental design Contribute and lead product planning and roadmap with an agile mentality Lead the measurement and improvement of software development metrics Ability to lead senior engineers and technical customers to a desired outcome, without prescribing it Strong understanding of quality assurance, testing quadrants and the testing pyramid, and how to apply them Experience with implementation of Observability and Reliability using market technologies

Tech Stack

Java 21, Micronaut, GraphQL, REST, Gradle Docker, Kubernetes Kafka, MongoDB, Cassandra, Elastic Search Terraform, Azure, GitHub Actions, Apigee, Dynatrace

Working for Us Means

Hybrid Working Industry leading pension of up to 12% M&S contribution Bonus up to 40% 20% discount on M&S products Up to 2 weeks working abroad Learning days once a month, Tech/Ed days once a quarter and Hackathon every other quarter A range of wellbeing support (including free counselling and a virtual GP for you and immediate family) 25% off gym memberships, access to online fitness classes and discounts for complementary health services, such as nutrition and lifestyle coaching

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.

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