Senior Software Engineer – Loyalty

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🕒 May 6

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1001 - 5000 employees

People. Technology. Data.

📋 Description

• Build, evolve, and maintain Loyalty platform services, ensuring they enable secure, scalable, and high-performance interactions for customers across Sparks journeys. • Take end-to-end ownership of features — from design and development through testing, deployment, documentation, and production monitoring. • Contribute to the technical direction of the Loyalty team, shaping solutions that balance user experience, scalability, maintainability, and operational excellence. • Write clean, maintainable, well tested code and champion engineering best practices across the organisation. • Work closely with engineers across multiple domains to understand needs, reduce friction, and improve customer and developer experience. • Participate in our support rota and take shared responsibility for the reliability, observability, and operational health of Loyalty services. • Contribute to code reviews, pair programming, tech discussions, working groups, and documentation to share knowledge and continually raise engineering standards. • Influence and advocate for foundational engineering improvements, modernisation initiatives, and enhancements across the Sparks ecosystem. • Mentor engineers at different levels through coaching, pairing, and structured feedback.

🎯 Requirements

• Experienced in building and scaling distributed systems • Familiar with JVM based languages or backend service frameworks (Micronaut is a plus but not essential). • Hands-on experience with DevOps, CI/CD, automated testing, and operating what you build. • Familiarity with modern event driven technologies, particularly Kafka • Experienced in cloud environments (preferably Azure) and container platforms such as Kubernetes. • Strong understanding of modern backend development, platform adjacent standards, and scalable architectural patterns. • Pragmatic, collaborative, and comfortable working in a high autonomy team with strong engineering culture. • Passionate about enabling other engineers and improving engineering experience at scale.

🏖️ Benefits

• 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) • 24/7 wellbeing support including virtual GP and mental health services • One paid volunteer day per year