Software Engineer - Product and Commercial Trading

Staff Software Engineer – Product and Commercial Trading

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 built into the company’s core, we’re redefining ourselves into a digital‑first, engineering‑led organisation. Your role will help modernise critical systems for M&S and drive the software that powers our warehouse operations.

• Develop, test, and debug software solutions to customise and optimise our warehouse management system (WMS), ensuring scalability, data integrity, and seamless integration with other critical systems.
• Lead the design of scalable and adaptable software architectures that support multiple, differing warehouse operations from a single codebase.
• Provide technical leadership, guiding engineering excellence, modern tooling, and best practices across the Supply Chain space.
• Conduct thorough code reviews, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and high‑quality code.
• Collaborate deeply with supply‑chain, product, and operations teams to craft effective technical solutions.

• Strong experience building high‑quality, reliable software with automation in the cloud.
• Proven ability to take ownership of complex tasks, deliver them routinely, and manage significant issues.
• Experience developing M&S‑standard frameworks and policies, ensuring adoption across teams.
• Support other engineers through code reviews and pair programming.
• Drive Dev Ops practices to automate the product‑development life cycle.
• Preferred technical skills:
  Oracle
  
  DB, Mongo
  
  DB, Terraform, Spring Boot, Micronaut, Java 11+, IBM MQ, Kafka, Azure Data Factory, Power
  
  BI.

• 20% colleague discount on all M&S products after probation.
• Competitive holiday entitlement with option to purchase extra days.
• Discretionary bonus schemes based on performance.
• Defined Contribution Pension Scheme and Life Assurance.
• Comprehensive induction, training programmes, and wellbeing support.
• Parental, adoption, and neonatal policies.
• Charity volunteer days.

Marks & Spenser strives to be an inclusive organisation, supporting diverse and representative teams. We are committed to helping candidates receive reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process.