Staff Software Engineer - Payments

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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., * Building high-quality, easy to use internal platforms for other engineers.

• Build and maintain high-quality, reliable software and own it with a high degree of automation in the cloud.
• Own complex tasks in the backlog and deliver them routinely with no significant issues.
• Develop and improve M&S standard frameworks and policies, ensuring that they are understood and adopted.
• Support other engineers to produce clean, quality code through code reviews and pair programming.
• Drive DevOps practices to automate the Product development life cycle and solution through experimentation and innovation as a culture.
• Support the technical platform out of hours as a member of the support rota.
• Contribute and create Product Group OKRs and demonstrate responsibility for the entire team's teams' objectives.
• Coach, mentor and develop by providing the knowledge and assets to less experienced engineers.
• Lead the measurement and improvement of software development metrics.
• Help lead continuous learning and improvement for the Products and Product health related to quality and stability.
• Help lead product planning and roadmap with an agile mentality.
• Promote technology, innovation, values, and ways of working within the team and wider community.
• Active participation and contribution to Communities of Practice with a focus on positive momentum.
• Drive recruitment strategy and hiring plans., Supporting colleagues connected to the Armed Forces, aiding their transition to civilian life, and ensuring that they thrive in the workplace., Fostering a supportive and inclusive workplace culture, addressing stigma, providing guidance and raising awareness to empower and assist colleagues affected by cancer., * Family friendly policy
• Family friendly policy Industry-leading maternity, paternity, adoption and neo-natal policies, providing support and flexibility for you and your family.

We are seeking a passionate Staff Software Engineer who is passionate about building platforms and tools to support other engineers. Someone who is interested in building long term, reusable solutions for complicated engineering problems. Someone who is detail oriented, quality focused and willing to work in the open and cares about raising the bar at M&S.

We are looking for people to join our engineering community that are excited about building platforms. Our objective is to bring leverage to our engineering teams through a reliable PaaS solution. ., * A Polyglot programmer, Java (preferred). A strong all-rounder with the knowledge and ability to select the right tool for the problem at hand.

• With Deep experience with CDNs, DNS, Edge Computing and high-traffic applications.

• Solid understanding of cloud infrastructure concepts and platforms such as Azure (preferred), AWS, GCP. With proven experience of operating cloud services at scale.

• Knowledge of SRE principles and best practices

• Solid understanding of observability and experience with monitoring platforms such as Dynatrace (preferred) or equivalent.

• Experience of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery, ideally with experience of GitHub Actions.

• A passion for testing, ensuring solutions are delivered to a high-level of quality.

Working at M&S means being part of something bigger - helping deliver quality, value, and service to millions every day. We're inclusive, fastmoving, 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

• Competitive holiday allowance with the option to buy more

• Discretionary performance based bonus schemes

• Strong pension and life assurance

• Tailored induction and continuous development support

• Exclusive perks and savings through our M&S Choices portal

• Market leading, family friendly policies (parental, adoption, neonatal leave)

• 24/7 wellbeing support including virtual GP and mental health services

• One paid volunteer day per year, Earn a competitive salary.

• Colleague discount

• Colleague discount After completing your probation period, you'll receive 20% colleague discount across all M&S products and many of our third-party brands for you and a member of your household. Please note only contracts of more than 12 weeks are eligible for this benefit.

• Time off

• Time off Competitive holiday entitlement with the potential to buy extra holiday days., * Pay

• Colleague discount

• Time off

• Bonus

• Life assurance

• Workplace savings

• My Choices

• Cycle to work

• Smart tech

• Family friendly policy

We are ambitious about the future of retail. We're disrupting, innovating and leading the industry into a more conscientious, inspiring digital era. We're transforming how we work together and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. Marks & Spencer strives to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers and suppliers. Join us and make change happen. We are committed to building diverse and representative teams, where everyone can bring their whole selves to work and be at their best. We support each other and work together to win together. If you feel you'd benefit from any support or reasonable adjustments during any stage of the recruitment process, please don't hesitate to let us know when completing your application. This information will be picked up by our team, so we can try and put steps in place to help you be at your best through this process., We're at our best when we're close to customers, and for many of us at M&S, that means working in store every day. To stay close to customers, our support teams are in the office three days a week as we believe that skills are developed through collaboration, and that spending time together makes us more creative and connected. It also means we can solve problems as soon as they arise, learn and grow as a team, build trust, and get closer to our colleagues. Halford Janak Deepak Halford Janak Deepak Halford Janak Deepak Being in third-party brands, working on things M&S hasn't done before… that plays to my sweet spot. I've worked in many organisations throughout my career, and it's rare to see such cause and effect in your work. The way we're structured means you're encouraged to solve problems and you have the autonomy to make progress quickly. Halford (He / Him) | Head of Technical Program Management Read full story I think all engineers just love solving puzzles and problems. At M&S, we're constantly learning new things, whether it's mastering Swift UI or understanding how customers interact with technology. But this is also a business that listens to engineers and values what we bring to the table. That's different, believe me. Janak (He / Him) | Staff iOS Engineer Read full story At M&S, we have Data Scientists, Analysts, and Technical Product Managers, who all share a genuine passion for harnessing data to improve people's lives. And we're in a unique position where we can actually help many different kinds of people, from our customers to our colleagues in store and in our support centre. Deepak (He / Him) | Data Scientist Read full story Being in third-party brands, working on things M&S hasn't done before… that plays to my sweet spot. I've worked in many organisations throughout my career, and it's rare to see such cause and effect in your work. The way we're structured means you're encouraged to solve problems and you have the autonomy to make progress quickly. Halford (He / Him) | Head of Technical Program Management Read full story I think all engineers just love solving puzzles and problems. At M&S, we're constantly learning new things, whether it's mastering Swift UI or understanding how customers interact with technology. But this is also a business that listens to engineers and values what we bring to the table. That's different, believe me. Janak (He / Him) | Staff iOS Engineer Read full story At M&S, we have Data Scientists, Analysts, and Technical Product Managers, who all share a genuine passion for harnessing data to improve people's lives. And we're in a unique position where we can actually help many different kinds of people, from our customers to our colleagues in store and in our support centre. Deepak (He / Him) | Data Scientist Read full story Being in third-party brands, working on things M&S hasn't done before… that plays to my sweet spot. I've worked in many organisations throughout my career, and it's rare to see such cause and effect in your work. The way we're structured means you're encouraged to solve problems and you have the autonomy to make progress quickly. Halford (He / Him) | Head of Technical Program Management Read full story I think all engineers just love solving puzzles and problems. At M&S, we're constantly learning new things, whether it's mastering Swift UI or understanding how customers interact with technology. But this is also a business that listens to engineers and values what we bring to the table. That's different, believe me. Janak (He / Him) | Staff iOS Engineer Read full story At M&S, we have Data Scientists, Analysts, and Technical Product Managers, who all share a genuine passion for harnessing data to improve people's lives. And we're in a unique position where we can actually help many different kinds of people, from our customers to our colleagues in store and in our support centre.