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Software Engineering Manager

Software Engineering Manager - Leading Property Business - South London / Hybrid - 65k NEG

Unleash Your Web Wizardry: Lead the Next Generation of ERP!
Are you a visionary Software Engineering Manager or Lead Engineer ready to make a monumental impact?
We're on a mission to revolutionise our highly successful desktop ERP, transforming it into a cutting-edge, self-hosted web solution. This isn't just an upgrade; it's a complete rebirth that will dramatically boost our operational scalability and empower our teams!



What You'll Be Doing

We need a hands-on leader to spearhead the development of our new web application using Blazor, ASP.NET Core, and C# . You'll guide a small, but mighty, team of seasoned developers eager to dive into web development. We're looking for a deeply technical leader who thrives in a high-ownership environment , comfortable driving projects without the traditional support of dedicated DevOps or UI/UX specialists.

Your Impactful Responsibilities:

• Architect, design, and implement core functionality across the full stack: Blazor UI, ASP.NET Core backend, database integration, and deployment.

• Provide technical direction and hands-on development throughout the platform lifecycle.

• Lead and champion team standards for development controls, policies, procedures, and processes.

• Establish practical and sustainable development workflows, testing strategies, and deployment pipelines.

• Ensure the delivered solution is secure, maintainable, performant, and production-ready , with an eye toward long-term extensibility.

• Champion best practices in software engineering while maintaining a pragmatic, delivery-focused mindset.

Who You Are

You're an engineering maestro with a passion for building robust, scalable web applications. You're not afraid to roll up your sleeves and lead by example.

What You'll Bring:

• Proven, recent, hands-on development experience with C#, ASP.NET Core, Blazor, and T-SQL .

• A solid understanding of web application architecture, component-driven UI development, and backend integration .

• Experience deploying self-hosted applications , with working knowledge of configuration, infrastructure, and security considerations.

• The ability to provide architectural clarity and technical mentorship to engineers transitioning from desktop to web development.

• Excellent communication and organisational skills , with the ability to set direction and manage priorities effectively.

Bonus Points If You Have:

• Experience in early-stage product teams or with accounting/enterprise back-office systems.

• Familiarity with Entity Framework Core, SignalR, or relevant .NET ecosystem tools.

• Exposure to CI/CD, basic infrastructure setup, and cloud/hybrid deployment models, even without dedicated DevOps support.

• A strong UI sensibility, capable of creating functional, user-friendly interfaces without a dedicated design team.

Why Join Us?

This is your unparalleled opportunity to lead the transformation of a trusted product into a modern, web-based powerhouse. You will take on a central role in shaping architecture, mentoring talent, and delivering a system that will support the business for years to come.

Join a "Great Place to Work UK" certified company , where you'll find extensive benefits alongside a supportive environment. Based at our East Croydon / Hybrid office, reporting directly to the Head of Software Development, you'll have massive career progression opportunities as our business grows and our software expertise is rapidly expanded across our wider operating companies.

If you're a highly technical engineering leader who thrives in small teams, enjoys wearing multiple hats, and knows how to deliver quality software under real-world constraints, we want to hear from you!

Randstad CPE values diversity and promotes equality. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010. We encourage and welcome applications from all sections of society and are more than happy to discuss reasonable adjustments and/or additional arrangements as required to support your application.

Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK.

For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary/contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business.

**Our Purpose**
_Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we're helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential._
**Title and Summary**
Manager, Software Engineering
Overview
We are looking for an experienced Software Engineering Manager to lead our growing team of talented software engineers enabling Financial Institutions in their fight against money laundering and fraud. We craft bespoke services that help our clients gain an understanding of the underlying criminal behaviour that drives financial crime, empowering them to take action.
As part of the application development team, your role will focus on creating and maintaining products across the whole lifecycle, through individual contribution and team leadership.
Role
- Lead and manage a team of software engineers, providing guidance, and support to help them reach their full potential.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define project requirements, scope, and timelines.
- Mentor team members on microservices design principles, patterns and technologies.
- Oversee the software development lifecycle, from planning, and design to implementation.
- Effectively lead sprint ceremonies, facilitate discussions, prioritize tasks, and drive consensus among team members during planning sessions.
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement and innovation within the team, encouraging alternate approaches.
- Identify and address technical debt, and performance bottlenecks, and maintain the stability of our solutions.
- Establish and enforce best practices for offerings, ensuring our solutions' scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
- Develop a complete understanding of end-to-end technical architecture and dependency systems.
- Ensure that production code meets high engineering standards i.e. high test coverage, e2e tests.
- Review team's code, identifying errors and improving performance and readability. Drive code design and process trade-off discussions within the team when required.
- Regularly update stakeholders and senior management on project status, risks, and opportunities.
- Evaluate employee performance, and set expectations and goals for direct reports.
- Take personal responsibility for creating and maintaining microservices, primarily in Golang.
- Iterate design and build to solve bugs, improve performance, and add new features.
- Ensure resilience and reliability of services.
- Report status and manage risks within your primary application/service.
- Work with a large range of stakeholders to collect requirements and prioritise tasks (product manager, project management, analysts) build services (software engineers, testers) and deploy (devops, bizops, product ops).
- The role is hybrid, and the expectation is that you attend the office according to Mastercard policy.
All About You
First and foremost, you enjoy building products to solve real, pressing problems for your customers. You enjoy working in a team and have an interest in data science and how advanced algorithms may be deployed as product offerings.
You are experienced in team leadership and project delivery and adept at prioritising your own workload, alongside that of your teams
- Experience leading and mentoring a team of software engineers to deliver high-quality solutions
- Proficiency in software development, methodologies, and best practices.
- Fundamentally grounded in agile methodologies, specifically SCRUM.
- Experience managing multi-stakeholders in an organization.
- Demonstrable ability to write high quality Python/Golang and SQL in a production context. You are happy to learn new programming languages and frameworks as necessary.
- You have experience with, and are interested in, contemporary approaches to service design, including the use of containers and container orchestration technologies, streaming data platforms, APIs, and in-memory/NoSQL stores.
- Experience in building scalable distributed solutions.
- Experience with large volumes of data and high throughput, low latency solutions built on Kafka and Kubernetes.
- Strong communication skills both written and verbal are a must.
- Listening, oral, written, and presentation skills and effective interpersonal skills.
- Ability to drive results while being resourceful and tactful within a corporate environment.
- Keeps abreast of the evolving technology landscape. Can ask the right questions to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of designs (scalability, latency, security, performance, data integrity, etc.)
- Works with ambiguity and with limited guidance.
- You may have domain knowledge in payments, fraud, anti-money laundering, and machine learning.
- You are comfortable communicating with a range of stakeholders, including subject matter experts, data scientists, software engineers, DevOps and security professionals.
- You have the ability to engage with best practices for code review, version control, and change control, balancing the need for a quality codebase with the unique and particular demands of scale-up stage software engineering.
- You have experience optimising solution performance with a constrained set of technologies.
- You have experience or are keen to engage with productionising machine learning technologies.
**Corporate Security Responsibility**
All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:
+ Abide by Mastercard's security policies and practices;
+ Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
+ Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
+ Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard's guidelines.

**Summary:**
We are looking for seasoned engineering leaders to join us in making the world more open and connected. We embrace entrepreneurs as well as those who come from more established companies. We are looking for someone with a strong technical foundation plus a track record of structuring healthy organizations that encourage effective collaborations across multiple disciplines. You'll influence technical decision making, drive prioritization and execution, while managing outstanding engineers and engineering managers in a fast-paced, impact focused environment.
**Required Skills:**
Director, Software Engineering Responsibilities:
1. You will be responsible for leading teams chartered with infrastructure innovations that enable software engineers, research scientists, data scientists, ML engineers to deploy solutions at planet scale and meet Meta's growing product and business needs
2. Build, manage and support diverse teams of software engineers and engineering managers
3. Provide both technical and organizational leadership
4. Form cross-functional and cross-discipline partnerships to drive engineering efforts
5. Establish effective strategies and execute against them
6. Uphold a culture of respect, integrity, inclusion and innovation
7. Demonstrated experience recruiting, building, structuring, leading technical organizations, including performance management
**Minimum Qualifications:**
Minimum Qualifications:
8. Significant technical industry experience
9. Extensive management experience
**Preferred Qualifications:**
Preferred Qualifications:
10. Graduate degree preferred
**Industry:** Internet

Software Engineering Manage r

Based : Offices in London and High Wycombe with hybrid working available

Term : Permanent, Full time

Salary : Negotiable + excellent benefits

The Role:

Our engineers are part of agile teams that typically include Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Test, Web and Application Engineers. Teams focus on a wide range of value streams such as creative music software, audio plug-ins, internal tools, embedded software and applications that augment our products.

Engineering Managers provide leadership and coaching to support and develop talent, to meet the growing needs of the business. They work closely with our Tech Leads to communicate strategy and nurture a shared engineering culture with a sense of unity and direction that allows teams to do their best work.

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to look after 3 teams and up to 10 direct reports, including Software Testing. The Software team is currently pathing the way for future best practices within the wider group. As Engineering Manager you'll have an opportunity to directly contribute to the best practices that we choose to adopt.

What you'll be doing:

• Managing the engineering capabilities of several Agile teams, including Software Testing.
• Guide the personal and professional development of engineers within your teams, through regular 1:1s and continuous feedback.
• Collaborating with Product Owners & Tech Leads to ensure teams are balancing quality and flow with delivery.
• Partner with Tech Leads in communicating strategy and foster inter-team collaboration.
• Support the teams by facilitating communication and bringing the wider context.
• Enable others to make technical choices by facilitating the exchange of ideas.
• Ensure we have the right skillset in the team, shaping our hiring best practices to attract the best talent.
• Support and improve the onboarding of new engineers into the team.
• Source and manage contractors and consultants.
• Get involved with diversity projects to help build an inclusive culture.
• Champion knowledge-sharing programmes across Agile teams, such as product demonstrations, lunch-and-learns, hack days and tech events.
• Follow the work of other agile teams and look for opportunities to adopt common practices and technologies.
• Ensure the team is equipped to achieve their goals, through training and equipment.
• Introduce and monitor metrics to help with decision making.
• Collaborate with the engineering management team to evolve our ways of working, designing team processes to create a great engineering culture at Focusrite.

Your Profile:

• You have exceptional communication skills. You are able to articulate complex problems and situations to a range of audiences.
• You have worked as a senior Software Engineer.
• You have a broad knowledge of the C++ language and ecosystem.
• You have experience managing or mentoring teams using Agile and DevOps best practices, in a culture of psychological safety.
• You have proven leadership skills and evidence of engagement with relevant communities.
• You take a human-centric approach, showing kindness and compassion.
• You have a passion for helping others to achieve ambitious goals.
• You are a strong advocate for technical excellence, automated testing, frequent deployments and agile processes.

About Us

Focusrite plc is a global music and audio group that develops and markets music technology products. Used by audio professionals and amateur musicians alike, our solutions facilitate the high-quality production of recorded and live sound. Our audio technology brands stand together, seeking to enrich lives through music by removing barriers to creativity – ‘we make music easy to make’.

The Focusrite Group trades under thirteen established and rapidly growing brands: Focusrite, Focusrite Pro, Novation, ADAM Audio, Sequential, Oberheim, Martin Audio, Optimal Audio, Ampify Music, Linea Research, Sonnox, OutBoard and TiMax. With a high-quality reputation and a rich heritage spanning decades, its brands are category leaders in the music-making industry.

Music technology is an enriching space to work in and we enjoy a Group-wide open-door culture which encourages innovation. This culture, combined with a passion for the inspirational solutions we create, has led to the group winning numerous accolades, including six Queen's Awards, the AIM Company of the Year Award 2021 and regular appearances in 'The Sunday Times 100 Best Small Companies to Work For’.

The Focusrite Group is dedicated to building a great place to work and as an equal opportunity employer we are committed to Diversity and Inclusion. The group mission is to cultivate an equitable culture, internally and externally, where all people feel they are welcome, safe and positively represented, because at Focusrite they truly are. Equally, we recognise the major impact that climate change is having on our world and work every day towards being industry leaders in a carbon neutral future.

Benefits include flexible/hybrid working, company pension, life insurance, private healthcare, enhanced Maternity and Paternity pay, employee purchase scheme, group bonus scheme, workplace nursery benefit, company music events, offsite company parties and free lunch in the canteen. We arrange company training sessions and encourage personal development.

We are seeking a skilled Development Lead to join our dynamic software engineering team. Reporting to the Engineering Manager, the ideal candidate will possess strong technical expertise, leadership abilities and a passion for driving innovation.

As a Development Lead, you will be responsible for guiding and mentoring a team of Software Engineers, overseeing project delivery and contributing to the design of high quality software solutions for our industry leading platform. If this sounds like you, we look forward to reviewing your application.

Responsibilities:

Lead a team of highly skilled and motivated Software Engineers, providing guidance, mentorship and support to foster their growth and career development.

- Work closely with cross-functional teams to:

• Design and deliver high quality software solutions.
• Refine and provide estimations of the workload.
• Allocate resources effectively and monitor progress to ensure smooth sprint and release delivery.
• Escalate any technical issues, roadblocks or project risks.

- Conduct code reviews, provide constructive feedback and enforce coding standards and software development best practices.

- Engage in sprint ceremonies while enabling productive discourse.

- Develop and refine technology choices, processes and standards as a key member of the Software Engineering management team.

- Recruit and onboard new Software Engineers.

- Spend time on hands-on software development as and when necessary, based on availability to do so.

Requirements

Essential skills:

• Strong management, mentoring, and coaching skills.
• Ability to effectively organise, prioritise and delegate work.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to multi-task and handle competing deadlines in a fast-paced dynamic environment.
• Extensive relevant software development experience broadly ranging from front-end and back-end with depth as an accomplished engineer in C# .NET.

Experience and strong knowledge of:

o   C# .NET

o   ASP .NET MVC

o   LINQ and Entity Framework

o   SQL Server

o   Web APIs

o   Source control management

o   Unit tests

o   Web-based languages such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

o   Azure DevOps

o   Octopus

o   Issue tracking tools

o   Strong knowledge of OOP, SOLID, OWASP and Secure Coding principles.

• Excellent problem-solving skills

Desirable skills:

• Experience working for a tech business
• Insurance industry experience
• Knowledge of large-scale multi-tenant SaaS platforms.

Benefits

• We offer a generous 28 days’ annual leave allowance, in addition to Bank Holidays. For every year of service you complete, we'll give you an additional day of holiday (maximum 5 days). 
• You also have the option of buying up to 5 additional holiday days per year.
• Hybrid working, we let you choose the days you work from the office.
• Participation in the company pension scheme.
• All employees are included in the company bonus scheme.
• Annual Learning & Development allowance of £1,250.
• Free access to LinkedIn Learning & Microsoft ESI Learning platforms.
• Monthly benefit allowance of £100 for you to put towards wellness activities.
• Group Income Protection.
• Life Cover.
• We are a member of the Employee Assistance Program, that supports our staff 24/7.
• Cycle to Work Scheme.
• Active social committee who arrange events throughout the year.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

You must be eligible to work in the UK for this role. We are unable to provide sponsorship.

We are not partnering with external agencies for this role, so please apply directly.

As part of our application process, you will be prompted to provide details of any reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process that you need. If you would like to discuss any reasonable adjustments before applying, please contact the recruitment team in the first instance:

Snap Inc ( is a technology company. We believe the camera presents the greatest opportunity to improve the way people live and communicate. Snap contributes to human progress by empowering people to express themselves, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together. The Company's three core products are Snapchat ( , a visual messaging app that enhances your relationships with friends, family, and the world; Lens Studio ( , an augmented reality platform that powers AR across Snapchat and other services; and its AR glasses, Spectacles ( .
Snap Engineering ( teams build fun and technically sophisticated products that reach hundreds of millions of Snapchatters around the world, every day. We're deeply committed to the well-being of everyone in our global community, which is why our values ( are at the root of everything we do. We move fast, with precision, and always execute with privacy at the forefront.
We're looking for a Software Engineering Manager, Backend to join the Consumer Generative AI team at Snap!
What you'll do:
+ Lead a team of backend Software Engineers to evolve Snap's consumer-facing Gen AI products, including Image AI Lenses, Video AI Lenses and Gen AI features for Snapchat+ Collaborate with Product, Machine Learning, Engineering, Research, Data Science teams, and executive stakeholders to iterate on existing Gen AI products and launch new ones
+ Facilitate technical planning, code reviews, and ensure high-quality code and operational standards across projects
+ Evaluate the technical tradeoffs of major decisions and be a strong technical mentor
+ Manage and mentor a team of developers, in a fast-paced, quick-to-market environment
+ Hire, grow and retain high-performing team members
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
+ Experience setting the direction for customer-facing product teams leveraging Machine Learning / Generative AI
+ Track record of delivery high availability ML-based backend products at scale in rapidly changing, highly collaborative, multi-stakeholder environments
+ Strong management and mentorship skills, fostering a collaborative and innovative team culture via positive leadership
+ Ability to effectively collaborate with stakeholders at all levels, both internally and externally
+ Ability leading and executing large, complex technical initiatives
Minimum Qualifications:
+ Experience supporting product engineering teams
+ Proven track record of supporting technical teams
+ Strong problem solving skills and background in coding
+ Demonstrated ability to manage technical teams
+ Knowledge of growing teams and/or organisations
+ Bachelor's / Master's / PhD degree in Computer Science (In lieu of degree, relevant work experience)
+ History of involvement in product roadmapping and decision making
Preferred Qualifications:
+ Background in Machine Learning
+ Proven track of closely collaborating with Machine Learning teams for launching consumer-facing Gen AI or ML-powered products
+ Proven track of closely collaborating with Mobile Software Engineers on launching consumer products
+ Experience with building and maintaining mission-critical and highly-available global systems
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**Summary:**
Autonomy, cutting-edge technology, and talented teams are some of the reasons engineering leaders enjoy working at Facebook. Our bottom up culture is a cornerstone of how we work, and our empowered engineers are solving technical challenges at an unprecedented scale. As an engineering manager you will support, enable and empower your team, managing high-performing engineers to make a meaningful impact on billions of people around the world.We opened our first office in London in 2007. Since then, the UK has played a central role in the development of some of our global products. London is our biggest engineering hub outside the US, and we build and ship products that serve billions of people from our central London locations.Facebook is in search of the world's most creative and experienced engineering leaders. We embrace entrepreneurs as well as those who come from more established organisations. Software Engineering Managers are clearly characterised by progressive technical experience and demonstrated progression in management responsibility. You have also kept your coding skills sharp and bring an unwavering passion for managing the dynamics of a fast-paced environment.Competitive Salary including the following benefits apply:Medical BenefitsDental BenefitsVision BenefitsPension BenefitsLife AssuranceChildcare BenefitsGym BenefitsTransport benefitsLaundry Benefit
**Required Skills:**
Software Engineering Manager - Systems Generalist Responsibilities:
1. Be both highly technical and an effective people manager in an infrastructure domain
2. Lead teams that deliver on multiple projects of increasing dependencies in an ambiguous or high-impact area
3. Work with your team and XFN partners to define and influence strategy
4. Drive roadmap creation and execution
5. Collaborate with various functions, drive engineering initiatives and have an impact at an organisational level
6. Participate in technical design
7. Measure the impact of your team and set clear expectations and goals
8. Work effectively with XFN partners and stakeholders to set and achieve optimal outcomes
9. Partner with leadership to influence and drive org design, contribution and prioritisation
**Minimum Qualifications:**
Minimum Qualifications:
10. Proven track record of supporting technical teams
11. Experience supporting infrastructure engineering teams
12. Strong problem solving skills and background in coding
13. Demonstrated ability to manage technical teams
14. Knowledge of growing teams and/or organisations
15. BS / MS in Computer Science (In lieu of degree, relevant work experience)
**Industry:** Internet

**Summary:**
Autonomy, cutting-edge technology, and talented teams are some of the reasons engineering leaders enjoy working at Facebook. Our bottom up culture is a cornerstone of how we work, and our empowered engineers are solving technical challenges at an unprecedented scale. As an engineering manager you will support, enable and empower your team, managing high-performing engineers to make a meaningful impact on billions of people around the world.We opened our first office in London in 2007. Since then, the UK has played a central role in the development of some of our global products. London is our biggest engineering hub outside the US, and we build and ship products that serve billions of people from our central London locations.Facebook is in search of the world's most creative and experienced engineering leaders. We embrace entrepreneurs as well as those who come from more established organisations. Software Engineering Managers are clearly characterised by progressive technical experience and demonstrated progression in management responsibility. You have also kept your coding skills sharp and bring an unwavering passion for managing the dynamics of a fast-paced environment.Competitive Salary including the following benefits apply:Medical BenefitsDental BenefitsVision BenefitsPension BenefitsLife AssuranceChildcare BenefitsGym BenefitsTransport benefitsLaundry Benefit
**Required Skills:**
Software Engineering Manager - ML Generalist Responsibilities:
1. Be both highly technical and an effective people manager
2. Lead teams that deliver on multiple projects of increasing dependencies in an ambiguous or high-impact area
3. Work with your team and XFN partners to define and influence strategy
4. Be a subject matter expert in an ML domain
5. Drive roadmap creation and execution
6. Collaborate with various functions, drive engineering initiatives and have an impact at an organisational level
7. Participate in technical design
8. Measure the impact of your team and set clear expectations and goals
9. Work effectively with XFN partners and stakeholders to set and achieve optimal outcomes
10. Partner with leadership to influence and drive org design, contribution and prioritization
**Minimum Qualifications:**
Minimum Qualifications:
11. Proven track record of supporting technical teams
12. Strong problem solving skills and background in coding
13. Demonstrated ability to manage technical teams
14. Knowledge of growing teams and/or organisations
15. Experience supporting machine learning teams
16. BS / MS in Computer Science (In lieu of degree, relevant work experience)
**Industry:** Internet

Software Engineering Manager - Identity - London, Greater London 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.

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.

All the details

We are seeking a Software Engineering Manager who will provide technical expertise, ship thoughtfully and operate with excellence to build the foundational platform for Identity across all M and S products. 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.

Being kind, creative, curious, and confident, you will be an integral part of our empowered, multi-disciplinary engineering teams - building resilient systems. You will be closely working with Principal engineers, product and delivery peers to drive the successful delivery of projects and features.

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:

• Software Development & Architecture: Responsible for design and architectural decisions, developing scalable and distributed systems, and driving legacy migrations. Focused on optimizing deployment pipelines to enhance efficiency and reliability.

• Quality, Stability & Standards: Establish quality standards to meet performance, reliability, and maintainability of the systems. With a strong production-first mindset, drive observability, maintain Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and ensure efficient incident resolution. Oversee the maintenance of existing systems, ensuring continuous improvements and prompt resolution of issues.

• Agile Delivery & Collaboration: Working closely with product, design, and programme management, you will lead the engineering delivery aligning to the business objectives. Collaboration will be key as you engage with senior leadership, cross-functional teams, and external partners to drive strategy and execution.

• Technical Leadership: You will provide technical direction on high-impact projects, tackling engineering challenges within the team. Engage in code reviews, ensuring high standards, maintainability, and alignment with best practices. Foster a culture of continuous improvement, technical excellence, and shared learning across the team.

• Hiring, Team Growth & Management: Manage team structure, budgets, resource allocation across projects. Hiring and onboarding new engineers, ensuring a seamless transition into the team. Coaching and mentoring engineers at all levels, tailoring your approach to help them grow into more senior technical and leadership roles.

• Technology Strategy & Knowledge Sharing: Driving innovation and continuous improvement across the team, managing technology roadmap, ensuring long-term strategic alignment. Lead on documentation efforts and internal tech talks, sharing knowledge and best practices to strengthen the technical community.

Who you Are

Your skills and experience will include:

• Recognize that great engineering is as much about people as it is about technical expertise and lead with empathy

• Previous polyglot hands-on lead software engineer

• Experience working on highly scalable software solutions across web or backend

• Extensive background in software engineering with several years’ experience in a variety of systems and technologies

• Experience building and leading teams of highly skilled, senior software engineers that deliver high-quality software.

• Excellent understanding of system design, software architecture, cloud, and software engineering standard methodologies,

• Great leadership and coaching skills with the ability to develop engineering colleagues

Tech stack
Java, Kotlin, GraphQL Federation, Micronaut, Azure Cloud, GitHub, New Relic and Dynatrace

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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