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This position is hybrid with 1 day/week in our Paddington, London office.

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.

We are seeking a passionate Senior Software Engineer who will provide technical expertise, ship thoughtfully and operate with excellence. Being creative, curious and fearless, you will be an integral part of our empowered, self-managing, multi-disciplinary engineering teams, designing, building, releasing and maintaining products that deliver value for customers and colleagues.

Due to high interest, this role may close earlier than advertised. We recommend applying as soon as possible.

What you'll do

Your key accountabilities will include:

• Writing, testing and debugging code for complex features, distributed systems and legacy migrations, while helping optimise deployment pipelines.
• Providing technical leadership, guidance and estimation on complex, high-impact projects, ensuring successful delivery of software solutions.
• Contributing to architectural and design decisions that align with business requirements, long-term technology strategy and engineering standards.
• Reviewing code and providing constructive feedback to ensure maintainability, quality and adherence to technical standards.
• Collaborating with a broad range of stakeholders, including senior leaders, engineers and external partners, while contributing to engineering communities of practice.