Staff Software Engineer – Platforms & Store Ops

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.

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. Having options to progress is something we’re proud of at M&S.
• Attractive annual bonus, based on company performance and personal objectives.
• 29 days holiday including bank holidays!
• Amazing perks and discounts via our M&S Choices website. Including GymSave – that offers up to 25% off Gym Memberships and the option to become an M&S Shareholder using our ShareSave & ShareBuy Schemes
• Charity Volunteer Day – A paid day away from work to support your chosen charity.
• A very generous Defined Contribution Pension Scheme and Life Assurance

Every colleague at M&S has access to a fantastic range of wellbeing support – this includes access to our 24/7 Virtual GP, PAM Assist to support you & your family as well as many other schemes.

The Person

We’re looking for someone who is passionate about building platforms and tools to support other engineers. Someone who is interested in building long term, reusable solutions for complicated engineering problems. Someone who is detail oriented, quality focused and will ultimately raise the bar at M&S.

The Product

We are looking for people to join our engineering community that are excited about building platforms. Our objective is to bring leverage to our engineering teams through a reliable PaaS solution and CI/CD tooling.

Key responsibilities

• Building high-quality, easy to use internal platforms for other engineers.
• Build and maintain high-quality, reliable software and own it with a high degree of automation in the cloud.
• Own complex tasks in the backlog and deliver them routinely with no significant issues.
• Develop and improve M&S standard frameworks and policies, ensuring that they are understood and adopted.
• Support other engineers to produce clean, quality code through code reviews and pair programming.

• Drive DevOps practices to automate the Product development life cycle and solution through experimentation and innovation as a culture.
• Support the technical platform out of hours as a member of the support rota.
• Contribute and create Product Group OKRs and demonstrate responsibility for the entire team’s teams' objectives.
• Coach, mentor and develop by providing the knowledge and assets to less experienced engineers.
• Lead the measurement and improvement of software development metrics.

• Help lead continuous learning and improvement for the Products and Product health related to quality and stability.
• Help lead product planning and roadmap with an agile mentality.
• Promote technology, innovation, values, and ways of working within the team and wider community.
• Active participation and contribution to Communities of Practice with a focus on positive momentum.
• Drive recruitment strategy and hiring plans.

The skills you need to succeed

• Polyglot programmer. A strong all-rounder with the knowledge and ability to select the right tool for the problem at hand.
• Strong experience in building internal developer platforms.
• Solid understanding of cloud infrastructure concepts and platforms such as Azure (preferred), AWS, GCP. With proven experience of operating cloud services at scale and Infrastructure as code.

• Solid understanding of observability and experience with monitoring platforms such as New Relic (preferred) or equivalent.
• Experience building Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery processes and scaling out to multiple teams, ideally with experience of GitHub Actions.
• Experience with containerisation orchestration frameworks like K8s.
• Good understanding of OOP concepts, design patterns and coding best practices in a micro-service architecture.
• A passion for testing, ensuring solutions are delivered to a high-level of quality.

Everyone’s welcome

M&S is ready to push boundaries to lead the retail industry into a greener, speedier, more inspiring digital era. That’s why we’re revolutionising how we work and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. There’s never been a better time to be part of our team. Marks & Spencer aims to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers and suppliers. Join us and make an immediate impact.

We are committed to an active Inclusion, Diversity and Equal Opportunities Policy, which starts with our recruitment and selection process, and we are happy to talk flexible working.

If you consider yourself to require reasonable adjustments to any part of our recruitment process, we invite you to share those requirements with us when completing your application. We will make every effort to ensure your needs are met to provide a fair and transparent process of assessment.

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