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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Staff Software Engineer - Store Operations - **Company:** Marks and Spencer plc (UK) - **Location:** Greater London, UK - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Artificial Intelligence, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Engineering, Software Quality, Code Review, Databases, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, Relational Databases, Software Debugging, DevOps, Distributed Systems, Github, Iterative and Incremental Development, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, SQL Azure, MongoDB, NoSQL, Redis, Software Engineering, Software Systems, SONAR (Symantec), Performance Testing, ReactJS, Delivery Pipeline, Grafana, Spring-boot, Git, Kotlin, Kubernetes, Complex Event Processing, Apache Kafka, Restful APIs, New Relic (SaaS), Dynatrace, Atlassian Bamboo, Docker, Microservices - **Published:** August 30, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.collegerecruiter.com/job/2815376164-staff-software-engineer-store-operations ## About the Role * Java 21+ * REST APIs with Micronaut and Spring Boot * Relational database (Azure SQL / SQL Server / PostgreSQL) * MongoDB (NoSQL database) * Event processing with Kafka * CI/CD with GitHub Actions and Azure pipelines * Code quality with Sonar * Microservice architecture * Azure DevOps, Kubernetes, Docker * Azure storage, Redis * Observability tools: Dynatrace, New Relic * Git, GitHub * TDD, BDD * Working experience with AI coding assistants, AI agents Valued Experience In Addition To Core * Kotlin, React * Security and performance testing and optimisation, 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. * Strong experience in most of the core tech stack areas * Expert understanding of software development practices * Strong experience of DevOps: you build it, you run it, you support it. * Advocate of Continuous integration and Continuous Delivery * Experience with cloud engineering and highly scalable applications * Great leadership and coaching skills with the ability to develop engineering colleagues ## Description We are seeking a passionate Staff Software Engineer to join our Store Operations C&H team. This team is responsible for building colleague facing applications and solutions that help manage stock keeping and stock movement operations within and across stores and distribution centres. * Software Development: Write, test, and debug code for complex features, distributed systems, or legacy migrations. Lead on designing and optimising deployment pipelines. * Technical Leadership: Provide technical guidance and support on complex, high-impact projects that align with team objectives, ensuring successful delivery of software solutions, while tackling the hardest technical challenges for the team. * Architecture and Design: Work across dependent teams, to lead the architecture, design, and development of large-scale projects, ensuring that software solutions align with business requirements, long-term technology strategy, and technology standards. * Code Review: Review and provide constructive feedback on code submissions from team members, ensuring alignment to technical standards, maintainability, and high-quality software. * Collaboration: Communicate and collaborate with a diverse range of stakeholders in various functions including product, delivery, architecture, infrastructure, senior management and external partners. * Mentorship: Actively mentor and coach engineers at all levels, fostering an environment of continuous learning and growth, while participating in hiring processes and training engineers up to Staff standard. * Operational Stability: Demonstrate a production first attitude, continuously considering observability and maintaining Service Level Objectives, while delivering change at pace. * Research & Innovation: Embrace emerging technologies and trends, and share insights with the organisation, while developing and maintaining the team technology roadmap and leading on the strategic approach to monitoring and maintaining production systems. * Documentation: Create advanced system and operations documentation and deliver internal tech talks to share knowledge and best practices. * Recruitment & Onboarding: Assist with the recruitment and onboarding of new engineers into the organisation. * Closer to customers and colleagues: Being closer to our customers and colleagues is an integral part of how we do things at M&S. We regularly visit our stores, understand and experience how our applications are used by in-store colleagues and how our customers benefit from the value we create. 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