Staff Software Engineer - Food Supply Chain

Summary

Summary

We're changing the way we do things, and putting industry leading innovation at the heart of how we operate; we need a stellar engineering team to make it happen. You'll be joining one of the most iconic brands in the UK on its most exciting cycle yet. We're more integrated and product led in our tech teams than ever before: learning, changing, and adapting constantly, with millions of people benefiting from your work every single day. M&S Foods Logistics is at the heart of ensuring our customers get the products they are coming to us for and ensuring our waste is at a minimum. We are investing heavily in our supply chain to ensure we’re building the M&S of the future in line with our growth trajectory. This role is at the centre of our supply chain operation ensuring our technology is efficient and reliably empowering our teams to get food in the hands of our customers.

All the details

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 outstanding 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

• Deliver and own high-quality software: Build, maintain, and operate reliable, cloud-based solutions with strong automation, taking full ownership of delivery, support (including out-of-hours rota), and issue resolution.
• Drive engineering excellence and DevOps practices: Lead adoption of DevOps, automation, and experimentation to improve the end-to-end product lifecycle, while continuously measuring and enhancing development metrics, quality, and stability.
• Lead and contribute to frameworks, standards, and strategy: Develop and embed engineering frameworks, policies, and standards, while contributing to product planning, roadmaps, and defining/achieving Product Group objectives and key results.
• Mentor and uplift engineering capability: Support, coach, and mentor engineers through code reviews, pair programming, and knowledge sharing, fostering clean, high-quality code and continuous learning.
• Promote innovation, collaboration, and community engagement: Champion technology, ways of working, and innovation across teams; actively participate in communities of practice; and contribute to recruitment strategy and hiring plans.

We are looking for Software Engineers with experience with the following tech-stack.

• Database Technologies including MongoDB, SQL, CosmosDB
• Azure Databricks
• Terraform
• SpringBoot
• Java 11+
• AngularJS
• Queues - IBM MQ, Kafka
• CI/CD using GitHub Actions
• Azure Cloud Platform
• Event Streaming Platform with Kafka

Everyone's welcome

We are ambitious about the future of retail. We’re redefining, innovating and leading the industry into a more conscientious, inspiring digital era. We’re redefining 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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