Staff Software Engineer - Payments
Hybrid
London, United Kingdom
Freelance
16-04-2025
Job Specifications
Team Supply Chain & Logistics
Store London Support Office
Location London, Greater London
Contract type Permanent
Position type Full Time
Salary Competitive + Benefits
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How We Hire
Everyone is welcome at M&S. No exceptions. It’s your background, abilities and differences that make you, uniquely you. And when you’re part of M&S, that individuality has the potential to make waves.
About The Role
This section tells you all you need to know about the position and its responsibilities, outlining everything we hope to see in a successful candidate.
Summary
We're changing the way we do things, and putting industry leading innovation at the heart of how we operate; we need a stellar engineering team to make it happen. You'll be joining one of the most iconic brands in the UK on its most exciting cycle yet. We're more integrated and product led in our tech teams than ever before: learning, changing, and adapting constantly, with millions of people benefiting from your work every single day.
We have a genuine ambition to become engineering first, building and operating an elite digital platform. We are looking for people to join our community of engineers to support this transformation, build a modern digital ecosystem.
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What’s In It For You
Being a part of M&S is exactly that – playing your part to bring the magic of M&S to our customers every day. We’re an inclusive, dynamic, exciting, and ever evolving business built on doing the right thing and bringing exceptional quality, value, service to every customer, whenever, wherever and however they want to shop with us.
Here are some of the benefits we offer that make working for M&S just that little bit more special…
After completing your probationary 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.
Competitive holiday entitlement with the potential to buy extra holiday days!
Discretionary bonus schemes awarded based on how you achieve your personal objectives and our performance as a business.
A generous Defined Contribution Pension Scheme and Life Assurance.
A dedicated welcome to our teams with a tailored induction and a wide range of training programmes to develop your skills.
Amazing perks and discounts via our M&S Choices portal to maximise your financial and personal wellbeing.
Industry-leading parental, adoption and neonatal policies, providing support and flexibility for your family.
Access to a fantastic range of wellbeing support for all colleagues including access to our 24/7 Virtual GP and PAM Assist to support you and your family.
A charity volunteer day to support a charity or cause you're passionate about through a dedicated day away from work.
What You’ll Do
Your key accountabilities will include:
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/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
Support the technical platform out of hours as a member of the support rota
Contribute to the team’s OKRs and demonstrate responsibility for the entire team’s objectives as well as coach, mentor and develop by providing the knowledge and assets to less experienced engineers
Help lead continuous learning and improvement for the Products and Product health related to quality and stabilityas well as approach, contribute and 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
Supporting recruitment strategy and hiring plans
Who You Are
Your skills and experience will include:
Expertise knowledge of TypeScript, React, SCSS, CSS Modules, Style Dictionary
Help lead continuous learning and improvement for the Products and Product health related to quality and stability as well as approach, contribute and help lead product planning and roadmap with an agile mentality
Support the technical platform out of hours as a member of the support rota
Everyone’s welcome
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.
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It’s important to us that our new colleagues feel supported in their roles and can learn from others. That’s why we offer mentorship through our buddy system.
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Get access to resources to keep you fit and healthy, in body and mind. This includes access to our Wellbeing Hub, Virtual GP, Check4Cancer, PAM Assist and I&D Networks.
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M&S gives you the freedom to be yourself. If you are genuinely motivated by a challenge, there’s nothing to stop you or hold you back. I would pass on the same advice I was given. Seize the opportunities. Share your ideas. Try things out. If it works, great. If it doesn’t, learn from it. This is the way we move forward as people – and as a business.
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M&S really has an appetite for change: there is a real belief in where we’re heading, and the business is putting the investment and infrastructure behind it. We’re always looking at where the industry is now, and identifying opportunities to evolve and improve the efficiency of our logistics network.
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M&S gives you the freedom to be yourself. If you are genuinely motivated by a challenge, there’s nothing to stop you or hold you back. I would pass on the same advice I was given. Seize the opportunities. Share your ideas. Try things out. If it works, great. If it doesn’t, learn from it. This is the way we move f...
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