Job Specifications
Summary
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. As a Staff Software Engineer, your expertise will help us on this journey, creating solutions for the business that are robust and scalable, with good observability and metrics, following best-in-class engineering practice.,
Summary
Summary
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. As a Staff Software Engineer, your expertise will help us on this journey, creating solutions for the business that are robust and scalable, with good observability and metrics, following best-in-class engineering practice.
All the details
The M&S Identity team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our dynamic team. You will provide technical expertise, ship thoughtful solutions, and operate with excellence. Creative, curious, and fearless, you will be an integral part of our empowered, self-managing domain engineering team, pushing the boundaries of our Identity Platform.
The team is responsible for the M&S Identity Platform, managing authentication journeys for both customers and colleagues. We sit at a unique intersection, delivering seamless authentication experiences for customers while enabling internal teams to build on a robust Identity Platform.
In this role, you will play a key part in driving our ambition to create a best-in-class software engineering team, environment, and culture. Join our community of engineers to help build a modern digital ecosystem, work with cutting-edge technologies, and do the best work of your career.
What You'll Do
Build and evolve secure, scalable, and high-performance authentication experiences for millions of M&S customers and colleagues
Take end-to-end ownership of features — from design and development through testing, deployment, and monitoring in production
Contribute to the technical direction of the Identity Platform and help shape solutions that balance customer experience, security, and developer usability
Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code, and champion engineering best practices in your team
Take shared responsibility for the operational excellence of the Identity Platform, including participating in our 24-hour support rota
Collaborate closely with Product Managers, Designers, and Engineers to solve real user problems in thoughtful and innovative ways
Actively participate in code reviews, pair programming, technical discussions and creating high quality documentation to share knowledge and continuously improve as a team
Mentor and support more junior engineers through coaching and feedback
Who You Are
Experience building and scaling distributed systems, ideally serving millions of users
Good knowledge in one or more JVM-based languages (ideally Kotlin with Micronaut)
Proven experience in DevOps practices, including running and operating what you build
Experience designing CI/CD pipelines and driving improvements in developer productivity
Comfortable working in cloud environments (preferably Azure)
Experience with identity standards like OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect is a strong plus
You balance long-term thinking with pragmatic delivery, and thrive in high-autonomy teams
Tech Stack
M&S uses a variety of technologies and as part of our modernization drive, will be introducing new ones. The sorts of technologies include:
Java, Spring, SpringBOOT, Micronaut
React, Next.js, Typescript, Angular
Azure Cloud, Kubernetes, Dynatrace (observability)
SQL Server, MongoDB
Ignite, Redis
What’s In It For You
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.
Here are just a few of the benefits that make working here even more rewarding:
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
About the Company
At M&S, we're dedicated to being the most trusted retailer, prioritising quality and delivering value. Every day, we bring the magic of M&S to our customers, whenever, wherever and however they want to shop with us.
For over a century, we've set the standard, doing the right thing and embracing innovation. Today, with over 65,000 colleagues serving 32 million customers globally, we're putting quality products at the heart of everything we do.
Tomorrow holds boundless opportunities with us. We're pioneering digital innovatio...
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