SUMMARY

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 in Commercial Trading, 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.

DESIRABLE EXPERIENCE

• Knowledge of the Retail domain, particularly around product lifecycle or merchandise and sales planning, is of interest, but not a necessity

• 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.
• Mentorship: Mentor and coach engineers at all levels, sharing your knowledge and experience to help them grow and develop their skills.
• Operational Excellence: Ensure our systems are well monitored, with good alerting, and tooling to support incident response and investigation. Ensure learnings are fed back into the development process.
• Innovation: Stay abreast of emerging technologies. Propose and implement innovative solutions to improve our operations and enhance customer service.