Staff Software Engineer

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 in Supply Chain, you will be a driving force behind the modernisation of critical systems for M&S, as we scale. As a technical leader, you will be collaborating with many multi-functional teams to design, build, and maintain the software that powers our warehouse operations. Your expertise will help us create a best-in-class engineering environment while ensuring our systems are robust, scalable, and reusable across our multiple warehouses. All the details What You'll Do

• Software Development: Develop, test, and debug software solutions to customise and optimise our warehouse management system (WMS), ensuring it can perform at scale, maintain data integrity, and integrate seamlessly with other critical systems in the estate.
• Technical Leadership: Bring engineering excellence and modern tooling and practices to the Supply Chain space, providing expert guidance on sophisticated projects, ensuring that software solutions align both with our strategy, technology standards, and engineering best practice.
• Architecture and Design: Lead the design of scalable and adaptable software architectures which support multiple, and differing, warehouse operations from a single codebase.
• Code Review: Conduct thorough code reviews to ensure consistency to technical standards, maintainability, and high-quality code. Foster a culture of continuous improvement.
• Collaboration: Gain a deep understanding of our supply chain, working with key operations partners, product managers, and other engineers to be able to craft the most effective technical solutions., 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.
  
  Proven track record in developing impactful, robust backend systems and integrations, with a focus on optimisation and scalability.
• Motivated by the ability to positively impact physical operations, through great software.
• Deep understanding of software engineering principles, patterns, and practices, applied to the development of maintainable and adaptable code.
• Technical versatility and proficiency in a range of relevant programming languages (e.g. Java, PL/SQL, JavaScript) 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.
Desirable Experience
• Supply chain or warehouse system experience is of interest, but we're very keen to bring in fresh thinking into this space, so it is not a necessity
• Presentation delivery at internal and external events
• An ambition to be an open-source contributor, technology writer or speaker
• Experience of working with both cloud and legacy on prem hardware
• Demonstrable entrepreneurship in previous organisation(s), this role will require you to be think laterally to navigate and modernise the space
Tech stack M&S uses a variety of technologies within Supply Chain and, as part of our modernization drive, will be introducing new ones. The sorts of technologies include:
• Java, Micronaut, PL/SQL
• ReactJS, Next.js
• Azure Cloud, Dynatrace (observability)
• Mule, Kafka, MQ
• Blue Yonder Dispatcher
  
  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.
• Competitive holiday entitlement with the potential to buy extra holiday days!
• 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
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're an in-person business and have core collaboration days in our Support Centre each week. For most teams, this is 3 working days where we come together to collaborate, innovate, and serve our customers thoughtfully. 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.