Staff 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. 

What You'll Do 

• 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. 

Who You Are 

• 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 DevSecOps 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. 

Desirable Experience 

• 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 

Tech stack 

The teams use a variety of technologies, including: 

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

• Cloud & Infrastructure: Azure IAAS and PAAS services and apps, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform 

• Data & Messaging: Kafka (Confluent), IBM MQ/MQFTE, SFTP 

• Databases: SQL Server on Azure 

• API & Integration: Apigee, REST APIs, Windows Services 

• Observability: Dynatrace, Pagerduty, Helix 

• CI/CD & Quality: GitHub Actions, SonarQube, Semgrep, Snyk, Prisma, Github Advanced Security, Qualys 

• Analytics: Power BI 

What’s in it for you  

Being a part of M&S is exactly that – becoming a part and playing your part. We’re an inclusive, dynamic, exciting, and always evolving business built on core values.  

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

• 20% Colleague discount on most things from furniture, fashion and food. 

• A first-class welcome to M&S with a tailored induction and a wide range of training schemes to help with your learning and development. Having options to progress is something we’re proud of at M&S. 

• Attractive annual bonus, based on company performance and personal objectives. 

• Competitive holiday entitlement with the potential to buy extra holiday days! 

• Amazing perks and discounts via our M&S Choices website. Including GymSave – that offers up to 25% off Gym Memberships and the option to become an M&S Shareholder using our ShareSave & ShareBuy Schemes 

• Charity Volunteer Day – A paid day away from work to support your chosen charity. 

• A very generous Defined Contribution Pension Scheme and Life Assurance 

• Every colleague at M&S has access to a fantastic range of wellbeing support – this includes access to our 24/7 Virtual GP, PAM Assist to support you & your family as well as many other schemes 

Everyone’s welcome  

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’re an in-person business and have core collaboration days in our Support Centre each week. For most teams, this is 3 working days where we come together to collaborate, innovate, and serve our customers brilliantly.  

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.