Staff Software Engineer - Online (Post Purchase Experience) - London, Greater LondonEveryone is welcome at M&S. No exceptions. It’s your background, abilities and differences 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’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.
As a Staff Software Engineer your expertise will help us on this journey, creating solutions for the business that are robust and scalable, with good observability and metrics, following best-in-class engineering practice.
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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…
After completing your probationary period, you’ll receive 20% colleague discount across all M&S products and many of our third-party brands for you and a member of your household.
Competitive holiday entitlement with the potential to buy extra holiday days!
Discretionary bonus schemes awarded based on how you achieve your personal objectives and our performance as a business.
A generous Defined Contribution Pension Scheme and Life Assurance.
A dedicated welcome to our teams with a tailored induction and a wide range of training programmes to develop your skills.
Amazing perks and discounts via our M&S Choices portal to maximise your financial and personal wellbeing.
Industry-leading parental, adoption and neonatal policies, providing support and flexibility for your family.
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.
A charity volunteer day to support a charity or cause you're passionate about through a dedicated day away from work.
What You'll Do
Your key accountabilities will include
Software Development: Develop, test, and debug software solutions, taking a lead on what good coding practices look like.
Technical Leadership: Provide expert guidance on complex projects, ensuring that software solutions align both with our strategy, technology standards, and follow engineering best practice.
Architecture and Design: Lead the design of scalable and adaptable software solutions or 3rd party integrations, whilst partnering with colleagues in Architecture.
Code Review: Conduct thorough code reviews to ensure adherence to technical standards, maintainability, automated testing and high-quality code. Foster a culture of continuous improvement.
Collaboration: Gain a deep understanding of our area, working with key business stakeholders, product managers, and other engineers to be able to craft the most effective technical solutions.
Who You Are
Your skills and experience will include
Proven track record in developing high-performing, robust front-end systems, with a focus on customer experience.
Deep understanding of software engineering principles, patterns, and practices, applied to the development of maintainable and adaptable code.
Good understanding of automated testing practices and toolsets, and how they are best applied at unit, integration, and system levels, across both front-end and back-end technologies.
Technical versatility and proficiency in a range of relevant programming languages (e.g. JavaScript, Java) and tools (e.g. Git, CI/CD pipelines).
Expertise in designing and implementing scalable applications on cloud infrastructure, with a focus on performance and security.
Tech Stack
M&S uses a variety of technologies and as part of our modernization drive, will be introducing new ones. The sorts of technologies include:
React, Next.js, Typescript
Java, Spring, SpringBOOT, Micronaut
Azure Cloud, Kubernetes, Dynatrace (observability)
SQL Server, MongoDB
Ignite, Redis
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