A leading retail company is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to define and drive the technical strategy for personalisation. In this role, you will design scalable systems, mentor engineers, and work closely with various teams to deliver customer-centric solutions. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in Java/Python and machine learning, along with the ability to influence technical decisions at all levels. Join our inclusive team and help us transform the digital shopping experience.
23/05/2026
Full time
A leading retail company is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to define and drive the technical strategy for personalisation. In this role, you will design scalable systems, mentor engineers, and work closely with various teams to deliver customer-centric solutions. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in Java/Python and machine learning, along with the ability to influence technical decisions at all levels. Join our inclusive team and help us transform the digital shopping experience.
Principal Software Engineer - Personalisation United Kingdom Be the First to Apply Job Description As a Principal Engineer at M&S, you'll play a critical role in shaping our technical direction and delivering against our strategic goals. Acting as a senior technical leader, you'll drive engineering excellence, influence architecture, and align technology decisions with business priorities. You'll join our Personalisation product group, responsible for delivering on-site and in-app personalisation, search, and recommendation capabilities. This includes some of our most innovative customer experiences, such as 1:1 personalised search and AI-powered styling. Working within highly cross-functional teams spanning engineering, data science, product, and design, you'll help deliver our vision of making every M&S digital experience feel tailored to the individual customer. 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 be doing Define and drive technical strategy, architecture, and engineering standards across the Personalisation domain Design and deliver scalable systems supporting personalisation, search, recommendations, and ML powered features Partner closely with Product, Data Science, and Design to deliver customer centric solutions Lead and influence technical decision making across multiple teams and platforms Mentor and support senior engineers, helping to raise the overall engineering capability Improve engineering quality, reliability, and productivity through best practices, tooling, and platform enhancements Who you are An experienced technical leader with a strong background in Java/Python and large scale production systems Strong experience working with Machine Learning systems and collaborating with Data Science teams Skilled in system design and architecture, with the ability to deliver scalable, high quality solutions Comfortable working across cross functional environments with multiple stakeholders Passionate about growing others and driving engineering excellence A strong communicator who can influence technical and business decisions at all levels 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. Job Info Job Identification 115316 Job Category Software Engineering Posting Date 02/25/2026, 04:10 PM Job Schedule Full time Locations Waterside House, London, W2 1NW, GB
23/05/2026
Full time
Principal Software Engineer - Personalisation United Kingdom Be the First to Apply Job Description As a Principal Engineer at M&S, you'll play a critical role in shaping our technical direction and delivering against our strategic goals. Acting as a senior technical leader, you'll drive engineering excellence, influence architecture, and align technology decisions with business priorities. You'll join our Personalisation product group, responsible for delivering on-site and in-app personalisation, search, and recommendation capabilities. This includes some of our most innovative customer experiences, such as 1:1 personalised search and AI-powered styling. Working within highly cross-functional teams spanning engineering, data science, product, and design, you'll help deliver our vision of making every M&S digital experience feel tailored to the individual customer. 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 be doing Define and drive technical strategy, architecture, and engineering standards across the Personalisation domain Design and deliver scalable systems supporting personalisation, search, recommendations, and ML powered features Partner closely with Product, Data Science, and Design to deliver customer centric solutions Lead and influence technical decision making across multiple teams and platforms Mentor and support senior engineers, helping to raise the overall engineering capability Improve engineering quality, reliability, and productivity through best practices, tooling, and platform enhancements Who you are An experienced technical leader with a strong background in Java/Python and large scale production systems Strong experience working with Machine Learning systems and collaborating with Data Science teams Skilled in system design and architecture, with the ability to deliver scalable, high quality solutions Comfortable working across cross functional environments with multiple stakeholders Passionate about growing others and driving engineering excellence A strong communicator who can influence technical and business decisions at all levels 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. Job Info Job Identification 115316 Job Category Software Engineering Posting Date 02/25/2026, 04:10 PM Job Schedule Full time Locations Waterside House, London, W2 1NW, GB
Staff Software Engineer - Store Operations United Kingdom (Hybrid) Job Description Whatyou'lldo As part of the M&S Software Engineering team, you will 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 engineering, it's an exciting time as we are redefining ourselves into a digital first and innovation focused organisation, with the quality of our engineering team being a key differentiator. 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. Key responsibilities for this role areas follows: 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. We take regular feedback and feed this back into our iterative development cycle. CoreTechExpertise Java21+ Rest APIs with Micronaut and Spring Boot MongoDB (NoSQL database) Event processing with Kafka CI/CD with GitHub Actions and Azure pipelines Code quality with Sonar Observability Tools Dynatrace, New Relic Git, GitHub TDD, BDD Working experience of AI Coding assistants, AI agents Valued experience in addition to Core Kotlin, React Security and performance testing and optimisation Who you are 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. You will have 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 What's In It For You Working at M&S means being part of something bigger - helping deliver quality, value, and service to millions every day. We're inclusive, fast moving, 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) Everyone's Welcome We are ambitious about the future of retail - disrupting, innovating, and leading our industry into a more conscientious, inspiring digital era. We're transforming how we work together and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. 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 support or reasonable adjustments during any stage of the recruitment process, please let us know when completing your application so we can ensure you are set up for success. Job Info Job Identification 115416 Job Category Software Engineering Posting Date 04/22/2026, 01:57 PM Apply Before 04/30/2026, 11:00 PM Job Schedule Full time Locations Waterside House, London, W2 1NW, GB (Hybrid)
23/05/2026
Full time
Staff Software Engineer - Store Operations United Kingdom (Hybrid) Job Description Whatyou'lldo As part of the M&S Software Engineering team, you will 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 engineering, it's an exciting time as we are redefining ourselves into a digital first and innovation focused organisation, with the quality of our engineering team being a key differentiator. 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. Key responsibilities for this role areas follows: 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. We take regular feedback and feed this back into our iterative development cycle. CoreTechExpertise Java21+ Rest APIs with Micronaut and Spring Boot MongoDB (NoSQL database) Event processing with Kafka CI/CD with GitHub Actions and Azure pipelines Code quality with Sonar Observability Tools Dynatrace, New Relic Git, GitHub TDD, BDD Working experience of AI Coding assistants, AI agents Valued experience in addition to Core Kotlin, React Security and performance testing and optimisation Who you are 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. You will have 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 What's In It For You Working at M&S means being part of something bigger - helping deliver quality, value, and service to millions every day. We're inclusive, fast moving, 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) Everyone's Welcome We are ambitious about the future of retail - disrupting, innovating, and leading our industry into a more conscientious, inspiring digital era. We're transforming how we work together and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. 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 support or reasonable adjustments during any stage of the recruitment process, please let us know when completing your application so we can ensure you are set up for success. Job Info Job Identification 115416 Job Category Software Engineering Posting Date 04/22/2026, 01:57 PM Apply Before 04/30/2026, 11:00 PM Job Schedule Full time Locations Waterside House, London, W2 1NW, GB (Hybrid)
Marks & Spencer in the United Kingdom is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for their Store Operations team. This hybrid role involves writing and debugging complex code, providing technical leadership, and mentoring engineers. The ideal candidate will have strong experience with Java, REST APIs, and cloud engineering, alongside leadership skills. The position offers competitive perks, including a 20% discount on products, a strong pension scheme, and opportunities for continuous development.
23/05/2026
Full time
Marks & Spencer in the United Kingdom is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for their Store Operations team. This hybrid role involves writing and debugging complex code, providing technical leadership, and mentoring engineers. The ideal candidate will have strong experience with Java, REST APIs, and cloud engineering, alongside leadership skills. The position offers competitive perks, including a 20% discount on products, a strong pension scheme, and opportunities for continuous development.
Marks & Spencer is seeking a skilled Data & Analytics professional based in the UK. This full-time role focuses on automating manual processes and enhancing reporting solutions for Food operations. The ideal candidate will have strong SQL knowledge and advanced Power BI skills. Employees enjoy numerous benefits, including a 20% discount, competitive holidays, and a discretionary bonus scheme. Join M&S in making impactful contributions to the retail industry.
19/05/2026
Full time
Marks & Spencer is seeking a skilled Data & Analytics professional based in the UK. This full-time role focuses on automating manual processes and enhancing reporting solutions for Food operations. The ideal candidate will have strong SQL knowledge and advanced Power BI skills. Employees enjoy numerous benefits, including a 20% discount, competitive holidays, and a discretionary bonus scheme. Join M&S in making impactful contributions to the retail industry.