At a Glance
- Tasks: Write, test, and debug code for innovative software solutions that impact millions.
- Company: Join the historic Marks & Spencer brand, transforming into a digital-first organisation.
- Benefits: Hybrid work model, competitive salary, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Inclusive culture focused on diversity and collaboration.
- Why this job: Be part of a passionate team redefining retail with cutting-edge technology.
- Qualifications: Strong backend experience, knowledge of software principles, and a DevOps mindset.
The predicted salary is between 63000 - 77000 £ per year.
This position is hybrid with 1 day/week in our Paddington, London office.
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.
We are seeking a passionate
Senior Software Engineer who will provide technical expertise, ship thoughtfully and operate with excellence.
Being creative, curious and fearless, you will be an integral part of our empowered, self-managing, multi-disciplinary engineering teams, designing, building, releasing and maintaining products that deliver value for customers and colleagues.
Due to high interest, this role may close earlier than advertised. We recommend applying as soon as possible.
What you'll do
Your key accountabilities will include
- Writing, testing and debugging code for complex features, distributed systems and legacy migrations, while helping optimise deployment pipelines.
- Providing technical leadership, guidance and estimation on complex, high-impact projects, ensuring successful delivery of software solutions.
- Contributing to architectural and design decisions that align with business requirements, long-term technology strategy and engineering standards.
- Reviewing code and providing constructive feedback to ensure maintainability, quality and adherence to technical standards.
- Collaborating with a broad range of stakeholders, including senior leaders, engineers and external partners, while contributing to engineering communities of practice.
- Our tech stack
- Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Gradle
- RESTful APIs, Graph QL (nice to have)
- Git Hub Actions, Figma, MDM (nice to have)
- Offline-first architecture, Clean Architecture, MVVM
Who you are
Your skills and experience will include
- Strong experience in a modern backend-focused technology environment and software engineering best practices.
- Expert understanding of software development principles and patterns, including MVC, SOLID, DRY and KISS.
- Solid expertise using distributed version control systems such as Git.
- Proficiency with Test Driven Development (TDD), Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) and non-functional testing approaches.
- Strong Dev Ops mindset with experience operating services and solutions using a \"you build it, you run it\" approach.
- 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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