- Build, evolve, and maintain Web Platform capabilities that engineers across M&S depend on every day, including shared libraries, tooling, pipelines, testing patterns, and documentation
- Take end-to-end ownership of meaningful platform work, from understanding the problem through design, delivery, rollout, and operational follow-through
- Contribute to the technical direction of the team, helping shape standards and solutions that balance developer experience, quality, reliability, and maintainability
- Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code, and raise the bar through code review, pairing, and thoughtful technical feedback
- Work closely with engineering teams across M&S to understand pain points, reduce toil, and improve the day-to-day experience of building and shipping web software
- Improve pipeline speed and reliability, test confidence, and the overall health of a busy monorepo environment
- Participate in support and operational responsibilities, with a production-first mindset around observability, incident response, and service reliability
- Mentor other engineers through coaching, pairing, and example, helping the team grow stronger without needing formal line management
Who You Are
- Strong production experience with modern web engineering, particularly React, Next.js, and TypeScript
- Comfortable working on engineer-facing platform problems, not just product features
- Hands-on with CI/CD, automated testing, and operating what you build
- Familiar with monorepo and build tooling concerns such as dependency management, library boundaries, caching, and merge reliability
- Able to own ambiguous technical problems and drive them through to a sensible outcome without needing constant direction
- Experienced in working across team boundaries, influencing through clarity and credibility rather than authority
- Pragmatic, collaborative, and comfortable in a high-autonomy engineering environment
- Interested in developer productivity, and ideally familiar with frameworks such as DORA and SPACE
Tech Stack
- React, Next.js, TypeScript
- NX monorepo tooling
- GitHub Actions and CI/CD pipelines
- Playwright and Jest
- Azure Cloud
- Observability tooling such as Dynatrace
What’s In It For You
Working at M&S means being part of something bigger - helping to deliver quality, value and service to millions of customers every day. We’re inclusive, fast-moving and always evolving, with a strong sense of purpose and a focus on doing the right thing.
Here are just a few of the benefits that make working here even more rewarding:
- 20% colleague discount on all M&S products and many third-party brands for you and someone in your household, available once you’ve completed your probation
- Competitive holiday allowance with the option to buy more
- Discretionary bonus schemes linked to your performance and ours
- Strong pension and life assurance to help plan for the future
- Tailored induction and training to support your development from day one
- Exclusive perks and savings through our M&S Choices portal
- Market-leading family policies, including parental, adoption and neonatal leave
- 24/7 wellbeing support, including virtual GP access and mental health services
- One paid volunteer day a year to support a cause that matters to you
Everyone’s Welcome
We are ambitious about the future of retail. We’re disrupting, innovating and leading the industry into a more conscientious, inspiring digital era. We’re transforming how we work together and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. Marks & Spencer strives to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers and suppliers. Join us and make change happen.
We are committed to building diverse and representative teams, where everyone can bring their whole selves to work and be at their best. We support each other and work together to win together.
If you feel you'd benefit from any support or reasonable adjustments during any stage of the recruitment process, please don’t hesitate to let us know when completing your application. This information will be picked up by our team, so we can try and put steps in place to help you be at your best through this process.
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Skills Required
- Production experience with React, Next.js and TypeScript
- Hands-on experience with NX monorepo tooling and monorepo build concerns (dependency management, caching, library boundaries)
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions)
- Experience with automated testing frameworks such as Playwright and Jest
- Experience working with Azure Cloud
- Familiarity with observability tooling such as Dynatrace and production monitoring/incident response
- Experience operating services you build, with focus on reliability, observability and support responsibilities
- Ability to own ambiguous technical problems end-to-end and drive sensible outcomes independently
- Experience working across team boundaries and influencing through technical credibility
- Mentoring and coaching other engineers through pairing and technical feedback
- Familiarity with developer productivity frameworks such as DORA and SPACE
What We Do
At M&S, we're dedicated to being the most trusted retailer, prioritising quality and delivering value. Every day, we bring the magic of M&S to our customers, whenever, wherever and however they want to shop with us. For over a century, we've set the standard, doing the right thing and embracing innovation. Today, with over 65,000 colleagues serving 32 million customers globally, we're putting quality products at the heart of everything we do. Tomorrow holds boundless opportunities with us. We're pioneering digital innovation and shaping the future of retail where our values drive every action. We stay close to customers and colleagues, always curious and connected. Our decisions are bold, our actions ambitious. Transparency is paramount, with straightforward, honest communication. We're constantly innovating, always striving for the best. Our focus is on aiming higher and winning together, combined with wise financial decisions to secure our future. Join us at M&S to shape the future of retail.
