Why Digital & Tech at M&S

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.

The Product

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.

What We Need From You

• 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
• Drive DevOps practices to automate the Product development life cycle and
  solution through experimentation and innovation as a culture
• Support the technical platform out of hours as a member of the support rota
• Contribute and create Product Group OKRs and demonstrate responsibility for the entire team’s teams' objectives as well as coach, mentor and develop by providing the knowledge and assets to less experienced engineers
• Lead the measurement and improvement of software development metrics
• 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
• 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
• Drive recruitment strategy and hiring plans

• Concrete 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
• 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
• Drive recruitment strategy and hiring plans

Working for Us Means

• Hybrid Working
• Industry leading pension of up to 12% M&S contribution
• Bonus up to 40%
• 20% discount on M&S products
• Up to 2 weeks working abroad
• Learning days once a month, Tech/Ed days once a quarter and Hackathon every other quarter
• A range of wellbeing support (including free counselling and a virtual GP for you and immediate family)
• 25% off gym memberships, access to online fitness classes and discounts for complementary health services, such as nutrition and lifestyle coaching

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M&S is ready to push boundaries to lead the retail industry into a greener, speedier, more inspiring digital era. That’s why we’re revolutionising how we work and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. There’s never been a better time to be part of our team. Marks & Spencer aims to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers and suppliers. Join us and make an immediate impact.

We are committed to an active Inclusion, Diversity and Equal Opportunities Policy, which starts with our recruitment and selection process, and we are happy to talk flexible working.

If you consider yourself to require reasonable adjustments to any part of our recruitment process, we invite you to share those requirements with us when completing your application. We will make every effort to ensure your needs are met to provide a fair and transparent process of assessment.