Software Engineering Manager
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Job description
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.
We are seeking a passionate Software Engineering Manager who will provide technical expertise, ship thoughtfully and operate with excellence. Being creative, curious, and confident, you will be an integral part of our empowered, self-managing, multi-disciplinary engineering teams - designing, building, releasing, and maintaining products. Working as an equal partner with the Product and Delivery you will deliver sophisticated and robust solutions to solve daring problems for our customers.
You will play a key role in driving our ambition to create a best-in-class software engineering team, environment and culture. We are looking for people to join our community of engineers to drive this transformation, build a modern digital ecosystem using exciting technologies and do the best work of their careers. The M&S Loyalty Offers team is responsible for building tools to integrate new personalized Offers and Mission-Based Rewards into the customer experience. We work with data scientists to allocate and personalise offers; we work closely with the core loyalty platform team to progress offers and missions based on customer activity and purchases.
What You'll Do
- Build, mentor and manage a high-performing software engineering team. Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation and continuous improvement within the team.
- Facilitate communication and collaboration among team members, ensure budgets, people and resource allocation, and workload balance across projects.
- Oversee the planning, execution and delivery of software projects, ensuring alignment with business objectives and timelines. Monitor project progress, risks and dependencies, taking corrective action when necessary.
- Work closely with product management, design, programme management and others to define project scope, goals and deliverables.
- Drive the adoption of standards and methodologies for software development. Provide technical guidance and support for complex projects.
- Evaluate and recommend new technologies, tools and platforms to improve the engineering process and software quality.
- Work with senior engineers to develop the team's technical roadmap and support the product management team to prioritise it against the commercial roadmap.
- Establish and enforce quality standards, ensuring software products meet performance, reliability and usability requirements.
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Requirements
- Previous polyglot hands-on senior software engineer.
- Experience working on highly scalable software solutions across web or backend.
- Extensive background in software engineering with several years of experience in a variety of systems and technologies.
- Experience building and leading teams of highly skilled, senior software engineers that deliver high-quality software.
- Excellent understanding of system design, software architecture, cloud and software engineering standard methodologies.
- Promoter of DevOps: you build it, you run it.
Tech Stack
- Java, Spring, SpringBoot, Micronaut
- React, Next.js, TypeScript, Angular
- Azure Cloud, Kubernetes, Dynatrace (observability)
- SQL Server, MongoDB
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Benefits & conditions
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.
- 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., £100,000
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