IT & Software

Staff Software Engineer - Payments Platform

Marks & Spencer

Remote · Nationwide · United Kingdom

Overview

In this role you will shape and scale Marks & Spencer’s Payments Platform within a digital-first, engineering-led transformation. You’ll own end-to-end payment outcomes, collaborate with architects and engineers, and drive secure, resilient live payment services across stores and digital channels. You will lead design decisions, champion DevOps and automation, and mentor your peers to raise engineering quality. This is an opportunity to impact millions of customers by delivering reliable, high-performance payment capabilities with strong security.

Pay / Benefits
  • 20% colleague discount on all M&S products and many third-party brands
  • Competitive holiday allowance with the option to buy more
  • Discretionary bonus schemes linked to performance
  • Strong pension and life assurance
  • Tailored induction and training to support development
  • Wellbeing support including virtual GP and mental health services
Responsibilities
  • Own end-to-end payment platform outcomes across key payment products, ensuring reliability, security, performance and resilience during peak trading periods
  • Lead the design and delivery of complex payment capabilities with secure, scalable, and maintainable solutions
  • Shape the technical direction and architecture of payment systems in collaboration with architects and engineering leaders
  • Drive engineering excellence through DevOps, automation, operational improvements and incident management
  • Mentor and support engineers through coaching, code reviews and knowledge sharing to build payment domain expertise
Key requirements
  • Strong software engineering experience with Java preferred
  • Deep expertise operating large-scale cloud-based platforms on Azure (preferred), AWS or GCP
  • Strong understanding of platform engineering, SRE, observability and monitoring tools such as Dynatrace or equivalent
  • Experience implementing CI/CD practices and modern DevOps tooling, ideally GitHub Actions
  • Passion for engineering quality, testing, mentoring and driving continuous improvement across teams and platforms
  • Mentoring and coaching
  • Strong collaboration
  • Problem solving and ownership
  • Java
  • Azure (preferred) / AWS / GCP
  • Platform engineering

Reference: WJ-747_30177796

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