We are seeking a passionate Software Engineering Manager who will provide technical expertise, ship thoughtfully and operate with excellence to build the systems and services for M and S financial business all while making the product experience seamless for our users and customers.

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.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.After completing your probationary period, you''ll receive 20% colleague discount across all MandS 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 MandS 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.Software Development and 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 and Standards:

Establish quality standards to meet performance, reliability, and maintainability of the systems. Agile Delivery and Collaboration:

Technical Leadership:

You will provide technical direction on high-impact projects, tackling engineering challenges within the team. Hiring, Team Growth and Management:

Manage team structure, budgets, resource allocation across projects. Coaching and mentoring engineers at all levels, tailoring your approach to help them grow into more senior technical and leadership roles.Lead on documentation efforts and internal tech talks, sharing knowledge and best practices to strengthen the technical community.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.React (Next.js / Typescript), GraphQL Federation, Java, Kotlin, Micronaut, Azure Cloud, GitHub, New Relic and Dynatrace.We''re disrupting, innovating and leading the industry into a more conscientious, inspiring digital era. We are committed to building diverse and representative teams, where everyone can bring their whole selves to work and be at their best. 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.#