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Summary
As part of the M&S Software Engineering team, you’ll be joining a well-loved historic brand, working on solutions that serves 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. We are seeking a passionate Software Engineering Manager who will provide technical expertise, ship thoughtfully and operate with excellence. Being creative, curious, and confident, you will be an integral part of our empowered, self-managing, multi-disciplinary engineering teams - designing, building, releasing, and maintaining products. You will play a key role in driving our ambition to create a best-in-class software engineering team, environment, and culture.
All the details
We are modernising the platforms that power how M&S Foods designs products, collaborates with suppliers and manages commercial decisions.
These systems sit at the centre of the M&S Foods ecosystem and support thousands of internal users and suppliers across product development, supply chain and commercial operations.
Our focus is evolving a complex landscape of legacy systems and point-to-point integrations into modern API-led and event-driven distributed systems that are easier to scale, operate and extend.
We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer – Distributed Systems( Foods) to help shape the architecture and technical direction of these platforms. This role works across multiple product teams to solve complex engineering problems, improve system reliability and establish shared technical patterns that enable teams to build safely and efficiently.
What You’ll Do
Shape platform architecture
Define and evolve architecture for critical systems across the Foods domain, including service boundaries, integration patterns and data models.
Solve complex engineering problems
Lead the design of solutions that span multiple teams and distributed systems.
Modernise legacy platforms
Help transition existing workflows and integrations towards scalable distributed services and event-driven platforms.
Enable engineering teams
Provide technical guidance through architecture discussions, design reviews and collaborative problem solving.
Raise engineering standards
Champion strong practices in testing, observability, reliability and system design.
What You’ll Work On
You will help solve technical challenges such as:
Simplifying complex legacy integrations across enterprise systems
Defining clear domain boundaries and service ownership across platforms
Moving from batch and point-to-point integrations to API-led and event-driven architectures
Designing reliable APIs and event contracts used across multiple teams
Improving platform observability, resilience and operational visibility
Enabling teams to build on shared platform capabilities instead of duplicating solutions
Platform Areas
We have a few openings available for the role, depending on team alignment; the role may focus on one of the following domains:
Product Data & New Product Development
Building the core platform that manages product information across the lifecycle from concept through to launch.
Supplier & Commercial Platforms
Modernising systems that support supplier collaboration, risk management and commercial trading decisions across M&S Foods.
These platforms are used by thousands of internal users and suppliers and underpin significant commercial activity. M&S is investing heavily in modernising its technology platforms as part of a broader shift toward a product-led and engineering-focused organisation.
This role offers the opportunity to shape the architecture of platforms that have significant operational and commercial impact.
Who you are
This role is suited to engineers who enjoy solving complex technical problems and influencing engineering direction across multiple teams.
Experience in the following areas is helpful:
Designing scalable distributed systems and APIs
Leading technical design across multiple services or teams
Simplifying complex legacy systems and integrations
Working with event-driven architectures and messaging systems
Improving reliability, testing and observability of production systems
Mentoring engineers and supporting strong engineering practices
Collaborating closely with product teams and domain experts
Tech Stack
M&S uses a variety of technologies including;
What’s In It For You
Working at M&S means being part of something bigger - helping to deliver quality, value and service to millions of customers every day. We’re inclusive, fast-moving and always evolving, with a strong sense of purpose and a focus on doing the right thing.
Here are just a few of the benefits that make working here even more rewarding:
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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