IT & Software

Staff Software Engineer - Commercial Planning

Marks & Spencer

Remote · Nationwide · United Kingdom

Overview

In this role you will help shape the next generation of commercial planning platforms for a historic retail brand. You’ll lead and mentor engineering efforts, drive scalable, secure solutions, and ensure strong observability across systems. Working with cross-functional partners, you’ll translate business needs into robust technical designs and champion engineering excellence. This is an opportunity to impact growth and modernization within a digital-first, engineering-led organisation.

Pay / Benefits
  • 20% colleague discount on products
  • Competitive holiday allowance
  • Discretionary bonus schemes
  • Strong pension and life assurance
  • Tailored induction and training
  • M&S Choices perks portal
Responsibilities
  • Develop, test and debug software, setting high standards for coding practices and engineering quality
  • Provide expert technical guidance on complex projects, aligning solutions with strategy and roadmaps
  • Lead design and delivery of scalable software and third-party integrations with Architecture teams
  • Conduct code reviews to enforce standards, maintainability, and automated testing
  • Build partnerships with stakeholders to design technically sound solutions
  • Mentor and coach engineers across levels to grow capability
  • Drive operational excellence through monitoring, observability, alerting and incident management
  • Stay abreast of emerging technologies and AI capabilities, proposing innovative improvements
Key requirements
  • Proven track record of building high-performing, scalable backend systems with resilience
  • Strong grounding in software engineering principles, design patterns and modern practices
  • Solid understanding of automated testing across unit, integration and end-to-end levels
  • Hands-on experience implementing DevSecOps at scale for enterprise-grade apps
  • Proficiency in Java, PL/SQL, JavaScript, Git and CI/CD tooling
  • Experience designing scalable cloud-based applications with emphasis on performance and security
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
  • Mentoring mindset to develop engineers and empower teams
  • Experience using AI tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot) and agentic workflows to improve delivery
  • Strong communication
  • Stakeholder management
  • Mentoring mindset
  • Java
  • PL/SQL
  • JavaScript

Reference: WJ-747_30182049

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