Software Engineer - Product and Commercial Trading

Position: Staff Software Engineer - Product and Commercial Trading Greater
Staff Software Engineer - Product and Commercial Trading - London, Greater London Everyone is welcome at M&S. No exceptions. It’s your background, abilities and differences that make you, uniquely you. And when you’re part of M&S, that individuality has the potential to make waves.

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.

As a Staff Software Engineer in Product and Commercial Trading, you will be a driving force behind the modernisation of critical systems for M&S, as we scale. As a technical leader, you will be collaborating with many multi-functional teams to design, build, and maintain the software that powers our warehouse operations. Your expertise will help us create a best-in-class engineering environment while ensuring our systems are robust, scalable, and reusable across our multiple warehouses.

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What You'll Do

Your key accountabilities will include

• Software Development: Develop, test, and debug software solutions to customise and optimise our warehouse management system (WMS), ensuring it can perform at scale, maintain data integrity, and integrate seamlessly with other critical systems in the estate.
• Technical Leadership: Bring engineering excellence and modern tooling and practices to the Supply Chain space, providing expert guidance on sophisticated projects, ensuring that software solutions align both with our strategy, technology standards, and engineering best practice.
• Architecture and Design: Lead the design of scalable and adaptable software architectures which support multiple, and differing, warehouse operations from a single codebase.
• Code Review: Conduct thorough code reviews to ensure consistency to technical standards, maintainability, and high-quality code. Foster a culture of continuous improvement.
• Collaboration: Gain a deep understanding of our supply chain, working with key operations partners, product managers, and other engineers to be able to craft the most effective technical solutions.

Who You Are

Your skills and experience will include

• Build and maintain high-quality, reliable software and own it with a high degree of automation in the cloud
• Take ownership for complex tasks in the backlog and deliver them routinely and can manage and address any significant issues Develop/improve M&S standard frameworks and policies, ensuring that they are understood and adopted
• Support other engineers to produce clean, quality code through code reviews and pair programming
• Drive Dev Ops practices to automate the Product development life cycle and solution through experimentation and innovation as a culture

Tech Stack

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

• Database Technologies including Oracle
  
  DB, MongoDB
• Terraform, Spring Boot , Micronaut
• Java 11+ (preferred)
• Queues - IBM MQ, Kafka
• Reporting built with Azure Data Factory and PowerBI

What’s In It For You

Being a part of M&S is exactly that – playing your part to bring the magic of M&S to our customers every day. We’re an inclusive, dynamic, exciting, and ever evolving business built on doing the right thing and bringing exceptional quality, value, service to every customer, whenever, wherever and however they want to shop with us.

Here are some of the benefits we offer that make working for M&S just that little bit more special…

• After completing your probationary period, you’ll receive 20% colleague discount across all M&S products and many of our third-party brands for you and a member of your household.
• Competitive holiday entitlement with the potential to buy extra holiday days!
• Discretionary bonus schemes awarded based on how you…