Software Engineering Manager - Warehousing

In this role you will lead and grow a high-performing software engineering team to deliver scalable, high-quality software aligned with business goals. You will drive agile delivery, technical leadership, and quality standards while partnering with product, design, and programme management. You’ll shape the engineering roadmap, foster collaboration, and promote DevOps culture to keep systems reliable and evolving. This is a chance to influence technology choices and delivery at scale within a fast-moving, inclusive retail environment.

• 20% colleague discount on products
• Competitive holiday allowance
• Discretionary bonus schemes
• Strong pension and life assurance
• Tailored induction and training
• Exclusive perks and savings through M&S Choices portal

• Build and mentor a high-performing software engineering team
• Foster collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement within the team
• Balance budgets, resources, and workload across projects
• Oversee planning, execution, and delivery of software projects
• Collaborate with product management, design, and programme management to define scope and deliverables
• Drive adoption of engineering standards and methodologies
• Provide technical guidance for complex projects
• Evaluate new technologies and tools to improve quality
• Develop the team’s technical roadmap and align with the commercial roadmap
• Establish and enforce quality standards for performance, reliability, and usability
• Oversee maintenance and support of existing systems and prompt bug resolution

• Polyglot hands-on senior software engineer
• Experience on highly scalable web/backend solutions
• Several years in varied systems and technologies
• Proven leadership of teams delivering high-quality software
• Strong understanding of system design, software architecture, cloud and standard methodologies
• DevOps mindset: build it, run it

• collaboration
• leadership
• communication
• Java
• Spring
• SpringBoot