Senior Software Engineer - Java
Advance the world of digital through M&S
Leading the transformation of an industry. The continuous pursuit of new information, resourcefulness and invention. Thousands, if not millions of people benefiting from your product-led ideas, every day. That’s why you join M&S Tech. Here, you’ll be proud of your projects, enhance your understanding of new technologies, and shape the future of a new, digitally prevailing brand of retail. Progress isn’t in the pipeline, it’s already happening. And we’re as determined to advance technology through M&S, as we are to advance M&S through technology. Want to help us?
It’s a mindset, a special drive and an enthusiasm that says, ‘We can’t wait to solve this problem’. It’s growing closer as a team through deep discussions about the technologies we love, whether next-gen or old classics. Most of all, it’s wanting to share that excitement with our customers and colleagues – reinventing retail into its most innovative form, then unlocking fresh potential and raising the bar yet again.
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Senior Software Engineer - Java
Why Digital & Tech at M&S
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.
The Product
We have a genuine ambition to become engineering first, building and operating an elite digital platform. We are looking for people to join our community of engineers to support this transformation, build a modern digital ecosystem.
Tech Stack
- SpringBoot,
- Micronaut
- Java 11+
- Kotlin
- Database Technologies including DB2, SQLServer and AzureSQL
- Queues - IBM MQ, Kafka
- Reporting built with MS SSRS and PowerBI
- CI/CD using, Sonar, GitHub Actions
- Microservice architecture
- Azure
- SRE approach
- AI/Machine Learning capabilities
- Event Streaming Platform with Kafka
You Should Apply If You
- Have proven expertise building and deploying and supporting micro-service backend products, at web scale
- Comfortable deploying and maintaining all infrastructural and application services required by a web-application within a cloud environment both IaaS and PaaS
- Experience working within an Agile & DevOps environment
- Strong experience with testing frameworks and libraries, proficiency with TDD & BDD
- Understanding of async event driven architectures
- Lead technical excellence from design to operations and launch of core product features or strategic programmes
- Drive technical direction and influence our overall strategy informing decisions on both Technology and Product investments as well as teams’ setup
- Champion Communities of Practice to help establish engineering excellence at M&S
- Pioneer and promote methodologies like clean code, design principles and clean architecture
- Advocate for engineering productivity, delivery quality and operational excellence through a continuous ecosystem
- Drive DevOps practices to automate the Product development life cycle and ownership demeanour
- Partner with both Engineering, Technology and Product leadership to ensure strategies align
- Advocate and strategize for continuous industrialisation and product-minded tech capabilities
- Inspire ideas to foster purpose and mastery to engineering teams, leading them towards autonomy and maturity
- Driving recruitment strategy and hiring plans
Working for Us Means
- Hybrid Working
- Industry leading pension of up to 12% M&S contribution
- Bonus up to 40%
- 20% discount on M&S products
- Up to 2 weeks working abroad
- Learning days once a month, Tech/Ed days once a quarter and Hackathon every other quarter
- A range of wellbeing support (including free counselling and a virtual GP for you and immediate family)
- 25% off gym memberships, access to online fitness classes and discounts for complementary health services, such as nutrition and lifestyle coaching
#LI-MW1
M&S is ready to push boundaries to lead the retail industry into a greener, speedier, more inspiring digital era. That’s why we’re revolutionising how we work and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. There’s never been a better time to be part of our team. Marks & Spencer aims to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers and suppliers. Join us and make an immediate impact.
We are committed to an active Inclusion, Diversity and Equal Opportunities Policy, which starts with our recruitment and selection process, and we are happy to talk flexible working.
If you consider yourself to require reasonable adjustments to any part of our recruitment process, we invite you to share those requirements with us when completing your application. We will make every effort to ensure your needs are met to provide a fair and transparent process of assessment.
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