Software Engineer

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The M&S Loyalty team is looking for a Software Engineer to join our dynamic team. You will provide technical expertise, ship thoughtful solutions, and operate with excellence. Creative, curious, and fearless, you will be an integral part of our empowered, self-managing domain engineering team.

In this role, you’ll join a cross functional squad focused on the Sparks loyalty programme, creating and improving customer facing web journeys using modern frontend technologies. You’ll work predominantly on the UI layer while collaborating closely with backend engineers, product teams and other specialists, giving you strong exposure across our tech stack and domain.

In this role, you will play a key part in driving our ambition to create a best-in-class software engineering team, environment, and culture. Join our community of engineers to help build a modern digital ecosystem, work with cutting-edge technologies, and do the best work of your career.

What You'll Do

• Building and maintaining high quality, customer facing web experiences for our Sparks loyalty products using React, Next.js, JavaScript and TypeScript.
• Collaborating closely with product, design, native apps, and backend teams to deliver features end-to-end across the Sparks customer journey.
• Integrating frontend experiences with GraphQL APIs to ensure reliable, efficient and scalable interactions with backend services.
• Using data, experimentation and insight to inform decisions, improve performance and optimise the user experience.
• Writing clean, testable, maintainable code and contributing actively to code reviews, engineering standards and best practices.
• Continuously improving our web applications, tooling, and delivery processes, and proposing ideas that enhance team effectiveness.
• Troubleshooting and resolving production issues with a customer first mindset.
• Participating in agile ceremonies including planning, refinement, and retrospectives, contributing to a growth oriented, collaborative team culture.

Who You Are

• Strong experience building user facing web applications using modern JavaScript/TypeScript and React (including frameworks like Next.js).
• Confidence working with APIs, ideally with exposure to GraphQL, or a strong willingness to learn.
• Solid problem solving skills and ability to break down complex requirements into simple, robust frontend solutions.
• Effective communication skills, with the ability to collaborate in a cross functional squad environment.
• A proactive, growth oriented mindset; comfortable learning new technologies and working in a fast paced, evolving environment.
• A team first, inclusive approach that contributes positively to squad culture and shared success.

Desirable Experience

• Experience working in largescale customer facing digital environments.
• Knowledge of experimentation, A/B testing or performance optimisation techniques.
• Familiarity with cloud engineering practices.
• Experience contributing to UI or design systems.

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:

• Java, Spring, SpringBOOT, Micronaut
• React, Next.js, Typescript, Angular
• Azure Cloud, Kubernetes, Dynatrace (observability)
• SQL Server, MongoDB
• Ignite, Redis

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:

• 20% colleague discount on all M&S products and many third-party brands for you and someone in your household, available once you’ve completed your probation
• Competitive holiday allowance with the option to buy more
• Discretionary bonus schemes linked to your performance and ours
• Strong pension and life assurance to help plan for the future
• Tailored induction and training to support your development from day one
• Exclusive perks and savings through our M&S Choices portal
• Market-leading family policies, including parental, adoption and neonatal leave
• 24/7 wellbeing support, including virtual GP access and mental health services
• One paid volunteer day a year to support a cause that matters to you

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.