Staff Software Engineer - Online (Post Purchase Experience)

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 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.

Your key accountabilities will include

• 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.

Your skills and experience will include

• Proven track record in developing high-performing, robust front-end systems, with a focus on customer experience.
• Deep understanding of software engineering principles, patterns, and practices, applied to the development of maintainable and adaptable code.
• Good understanding of automated testing practices and toolsets, and how they are best applied at unit, integration, and system levels, across both front-end and back-end technologies.
• Technical versatility and proficiency in a range of relevant programming languages (e.g. JavaScript, Java) 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.

M&S uses a variety of technologies and as part of our modernization drive, will be introducing new ones. The sorts of technologies include:

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