Marks & Spencer
Staff Software Engineer - Customer Data Platform
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- United Kingdom
- Work setup
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Staff
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Data engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- You own delivery of complex features end-to-end, ensuring quality, performance, and reliability — not just completion.
- You can take ambiguous problems and turn them into clear technical plans for the team to execute.
- You design solutions that balance speed, maintainability, and long-term scalability.
- You actively identify technical debt, risks, or inefficiencies and take action to address them.
- You use observability and metrics to validate behavior, debug issues, and improve system health.
- You regularly support and unblock teammates, helping them deliver more effectively.
- You contribute to design discussions, clearly communicating trade-offs, and influencing decisions within your team.
- You help the team operate effectively in production, supporting incidents, and driving improvements after failures.
- You can debug complex issues across multiple components, not just your own code.
- You proactively improve testing strategies and code quality, ensuring long-term confidence in releases.
- You introduce improvements to tooling, CI/CD, or workflows that increase team productivity.
Full description
What you’ll do
Your key accountabilities will include:
- Build and maintain high-quality, reliable software in the cloud, embracing a 'you build it, you run it' mindset.
- Lead delivery of complex features and backlog items within your team, from design to production, ensuring smooth rollout and minimal operational disruption.
- Own technical delivery within your team, helping break down ambiguous problems into clear, executable plans.
- Design and implement solutions that align with existing architecture and contribute meaningfully to team-level technical direction.
- Write, review, and release well-tested, maintainable code that ensures confidence in shipping high-quality software.
- Improve code quality and consistency by setting standards through PR reviews and best practices.
- Partner closely with Product and Design, collaborating to deliver meaningful customer outcomes.
- Work with adjacent teams when needed to align on shared components and dependencies.
- Actively participate in on-call support, contributing to operational stability, observability, and performance.
- Coach and support other engineers through pairing, reviews, and mentoring, helping raise the team’s overall capability.
- Contribute to team OKRs and actively support planning, refinement, and roadmap discussions.
- Champion secure coding, reliability, and sustainable engineering practices within your team.
Who you are
- You own delivery of complex features end-to-end, ensuring quality, performance, and reliability — not just completion.
- You can take ambiguous problems and turn them into clear technical plans for the team to execute.
- You design solutions that balance speed, maintainability, and long-term scalability.
- You actively identify technical debt, risks, or inefficiencies and take action to address them.
- You use observability and metrics to validate behavior, debug issues, and improve system health.
- You regularly support and unblock teammates, helping them deliver more effectively.
- You contribute to design discussions, clearly communicating trade-offs, and influencing decisions within your team.
- You help the team operate effectively in production, supporting incidents, and driving improvements after failures.
- You can debug complex issues across multiple components, not just your own code.
- You proactively improve testing strategies and code quality, ensuring long-term confidence in releases.
- You introduce improvements to tooling, CI/CD, or workflows that increase team productivity.
Tech Stack
M&S utilizes a variety of technologies within the Customer Data Platform including: