Software Engineer - Transport

Summary

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.

This role sits in the Transport team, supporting the Fashion Home & Beauty (FH&B) Supply Chain & Logistics sub-domain, which is central to M&S’s ambitious plans for growth. 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.

• 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.

• Mentorship: Mentor and coach engineers at all levels, sharing your knowledge and experience to help them grow and develop their skills.

• Operational Excellence: Ensure our systems are well monitored, with good alerting, and tooling to support incident response and investigation. Ensure learnings are fed back into the development process.

• Innovation: Stay abreast of emerging technologies. Propose and implement innovative solutions to improve our operations and enhance customer service.

• Proven track record in full stack engineering developing high-performing, robust UI and backend systems and integrations, with a focus on optimisation and scalability.

• Deep understanding of software engineering principles, patterns, and practices, applied to the development of maintainable and adaptable code.

• Good understanding of automated testing and performance testing practices and toolsets, and how they are best applied at unit, integration, and system levels, across both back-end and front-end technologies.

• Proven hands-on experience implementing Dev Sec Ops  practices at scale across enterprise-wide applications.

• Technical versatility and proficiency in a range of relevant programming languages (e.g. Java, SQL, JavaScript) 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.

• Clear communicator who can convey complex technical concepts to diverse audiences, fostering collaboration and understanding.

• Possess a mentorship mindset with a genuine desire to share knowledge and empower others to reach their full potential.

• Good knowledge of AI/ML technologies and GenAI tools such as Copilot, with hands‑on experience implementing GenAI tools and agents across the software development lifecycle.

• Knowledge of the Retail domain, particularly around Supply Chain & transportation, multi‑channel transportation including deliveries to/from Suppliers, Distribution Centres, Retail, Ecom etc. Integration of freight and haulier systems. Integration with third party transport planning and transport execution systems.

The teams use a variety of technologies, including:

• Languages & Frameworks:
  Java (Spring Boot), .NET, Angular, Angular JS, React, Type Script, Playwright, Cucumber, Jmeter, Python, AI/ML

• Cloud & Infrastructure:
  Azure IAAS and PAAS services and apps, Docker,…