Staff Software Engineer - StoreOps C&H - London, Greater London

Marks & Spencer; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job description

Staff Software Engineer - StoreOps C&H - London, Greater London

Everyone is welcome at M&S. No exceptions. It’s your background, abilities and differences that make you, uniquely you.

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! With ethical values that run right through the company’s core and technology leaders that truly understand software engineering, it’s an exciting time as we are redefining ourselves into a digital first and innovation focused organisation, with the quality of our engineering team being a key differentiator.

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.

What You’ll Do

Your key accountabilities will include:

1. Software Development: Write, test, and debug code for complex features, distributed systems, or legacy migrations. Lead on designing and optimising deployment pipelines.
2. Technical Leadership: Provide technical guidance and support on complex, high-impact projects that align with team objectives, ensuring successful delivery of software solutions, while tackling the hardest technical challenges for the team.
3. Architecture and Design: Work across dependent teams, to lead the architecture, design, and development of large-scale projects, ensuring that software solutions align with business requirements, long-term technology strategy, and technology standards.
4. Code Review: Review and provide constructive feedback on code submissions from team members, ensuring alignment to technical standards, maintainability, and high-quality software.
5. Collaboration: Communicate and collaborate with a diverse range of stakeholders in various functions including product, delivery, architecture, infrastructure, senior management and external partners.
6. Mentorship: Actively mentor and coach engineers at all levels, fostering an environment of continuous learning and growth, while participating in hiring processes and training engineers up to Staff standard.
7. Operational Stability: Demonstrate a production first attitude, continuously considering observability and maintaining Service Level Objectives, while delivering change at pace.
8. Research & Innovation: Embrace emerging technologies and trends, and share insights with the organisation, while developing and maintaining the team technology roadmap and leading on the strategic approach to monitoring and maintaining production systems.
9. Documentation: Create advanced system and operations documentation and deliver internal tech talks to share knowledge and best practices.
10. Recruitment & Onboarding: Assist with the recruitment and onboarding of new engineers into the organisation.

Who You Are

Your skills and experience will include:

1. Strong experience in most of the core tech stack areas.
2. Expert understanding of software development practices.
3. Strong experience of DevOps: you build it, you run it, you support it.
4. Advocate of Continuous integration and Continuous Delivery.
5. Experience with cloud engineering and highly scalable applications.
6. Great leadership and coaching skills with the ability to develop engineering colleagues.

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, Code quality with Sonar, Microservice architecture, Azure DevOps, Kubernetes, Docker, Azure storage, Redis, Observability Tools (Dynatrace, New Relic), Git, GitHub, TDD, BDD, Kotlin, .NET, Android development, Reporting built with MS SSRS and PowerBI, Security and performance testing and optimisation.

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.