Staff Software Engineer - Storeops c&h

What's In It For You

Being a part of M&S is exactly that - becoming a part and playing your part. We're an inclusive, dynamic, exciting, and always evolving business built on core values.

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

• 20% Colleague discount on most things from furniture, fashion and food.
• A first-class welcome to M&S with a tailored induction and a wide range of training schemes to help with your learning and development.
• Attractive annual bonus, based on company performance and personal objectives.
• Competitive holiday entitlement with the potential to buy extra holiday days!
• Amazing perks and discounts via our M&S Choices website.
• Charity Volunteer Day - A paid day away from work to support your chosen charity.
• A very generous Defined Contribution Pension Scheme and Life Assurance.
• Access to a fantastic range of wellbeing support including 24/7 Virtual GP and PAM Assist.

What you'll do

As part of the M&S Software Engineering team, you will be joining a well-loved historic brand, working on solutions that serve millions of loyal customers and thousands of colleagues! We are seeking a passionate Staff Software Engineer to join our Store Operations C&H team. This team is responsible for building colleague-facing applications and solutions that help manage stock keeping and stock movement operations within and across stores and distribution centres. Key responsibilities for this role are as follows:

• Software Development: Write, test, and debug code for complex features, distributed systems, or legacy migrations.
• Technical Leadership: Provide technical guidance and support on complex, high-impact projects.
• Architecture and Design: Lead the architecture, design, and development of large-scale projects.
• Code Review: Review and provide constructive feedback on code submissions.
• Collaboration: Communicate and collaborate with a diverse range of stakeholders.
• Mentorship: Actively mentor and coach engineers at all levels.
• Operational Stability: Demonstrate a production first attitude.
• Research & Innovation: Embrace emerging technologies and trends.
• Documentation: Create advanced system and operations documentation.
• Recruitment & Onboarding: Assist with the recruitment and onboarding of new engineers.

Who you are

• You will play a key role in driving our ambition to create a best-in-class software engineering team.
• You will have strong experience in most of the core tech stack areas.
• Expert understanding of software development practices.
• Strong experience of DevOps.
• Advocate of Continuous integration and Continuous Delivery.
• Experience with cloud engineering and highly scalable applications.
• Great leadership and coaching skills.

Tech Stack

• Java 17+
• Rest APIs with Micronaut and Spring Boot
• Relational database (Azure SQL/ SQL Server/ PostgreSQL)
• MongoDB
• Event processing with Kafka
• CI/CD with GitHub Actions and Azure pipelines
• Microservice architecture
• Azure DevOps, Kubernetes, Docker
• Observability Tools Dynatrace, New Relic

Everyone's Welcome

M&S is ready to push boundaries to lead the retail industry into a greener, speedier, more inspiring digital era. Join us and make an immediate impact. We're an in-person business with core collaboration days in our Support Centre each week. We are committed to an active Inclusion, Diversity and Equal Opportunities Policy, and we are happy to talk flexible working.