Staff Software Engineer - Python

A role within M&S Software Engineering means you’ll be joining a well-loved historic brand, working on a digital platform that serves 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 into a digital-first and engineering-led organisation, with the quality of our engineering team being a key differentiator.

This role sits in the key strategic areas for M&S, which drives Personalisation and Growth across all our Digital channels using Customer data, AI (Artificial Intelligence) and ML capabilities and journey orchestrators. We aim to become global leaders in Personalisation. You will be part of one of the Product Engineering teams that focuses on the following:

• Building and driving tech strategy to scale decisions and recommendation platforms to personalise customer journeys across various channels (web, app, email, notifications and in-store).
• Enabling Collaboration and ML Ops pipelines with Data science teams to build customer vectors.
• Scaling Client and Server-side experimentation using A/B testing and Featuring flagging platforms across our digital channels experience.
• Driving and automating Campaigns through Campaign management tools, Decisioning platforms and orchestration etc.

• Proficient experience building dedicated enterprise applications with backend ecosystems using Python
• Experienced developing and maintaining REST APIs.
• Understanding of CI/CD tools and devsecops practices to test and deploy software (e.g: Concourse, Gitops).
• Understanding of the AGILE framework and ability to communicate effectively with partners.
• Experience with DevOps: you build it, you run it
• Advocate and experience in Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery
• Expertise with microservice architecture and a DDD (Domain Driven Design) mentality
• Proficiency with TDD (Test Driven Development) and/or BDD (Behavior Driven Development) and non-functional testing
• Experience with containerization frameworks like Kubernetes and Docker
• Solid understanding of event-driven architecture and technology such as Kafka (preferred), RabbitMQ, Azure Service Bus
• Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure platforms and concepts such as Azure (preferred), AWS (Amazon Web Services), GCP
• Experience with monitoring platforms such as New Relic (preferred), Grafana, Datadog or equivalent

• A healthy thirst for learning and knowledge
• A passion for all aspects of software engineering
• Enthusiasm in Data Science and Machine Learning
• Produce build high-quality, reliable software and own it with a high degree of automation in the cloud
• Solve problems collaboratively, communicating decisions through tech talks and white-boarding sessions
• Deliver high-quality software design through proficiency in design patterns, algorithms, and data structures
• Help other engineers to produce clean, quality code through code reviews and pair programming
• Coach, mentor and develop lesser experienced engineers
• Engage with product colleagues to improve value for the customer and to understand ambiguous requirements (using some)
• Demonstrate and champion pragmatism in terms of commercial delivery and software quality
• Promote technology, values and ways of working within the team and wider software engineering community
• Good communication skills, both written and spoken and able to adjust to different audiences
• Ability to provide constructive feedback to team members
• Humbleness, humility and honesty
• Cares about the business and the bigger picture
• A leadership mentality that is willing to take responsibility
• Interest in recruitment and new starter onboarding activities

• Hybrid Working
• Industry-leading pension of up to 12% M&S contribution
• Bonus up to 40%
• 20% discount on M&S products
• Learning days once a month, Tech/Ed days once a quarter and Hackathon every other quarter
• A range of well-being support (including free counselling and a virtual GP for you and your immediate family)
• 25% off gym memberships, access to online fitness classes and discounts for complementary health services, such as nutrition and lifestyle coaching

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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.