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

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 that make you, uniquely you.

And when you’re part of M&S, that individuality has the potential to make waves.

Summary

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’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:

1. 20% colleague discount across all M&S products and many of our third-party brands for you and a member of your household after completing your probationary period.
2. Competitive holiday entitlement with the potential to buy extra holiday days.
3. Discretionary bonus schemes awarded based on how you achieve your personal objectives and our performance as a business.
4. A generous Defined Contribution Pension Scheme and Life Assurance.
5. A dedicated welcome to our teams with a tailored induction and a wide range of training programmes to develop your skills.
6. Amazing perks and discounts via our M&S Choices portal to maximise your financial and personal wellbeing.
7. Industry-leading parental, adoption and neonatal policies, providing support and flexibility for your family.
8. 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.
9. A charity volunteer day to support a charity or cause you’re passionate about through a dedicated day away from work.

Your Responsibilities

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.

Your Skills and Experience

You will play a key role in driving our ambition to create a best-in-class software engineering team, environment, and culture. We are looking for people to join our community of engineers to drive this transformation, build a modern digital ecosystem using exciting technologies and do the best work of their careers.

You will have:

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.

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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