Software Engineering Manager – Commercial Trading

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Software Engineering Manager leading engineering teams and driving software delivery excellence at M&S, a major retailer in the UK.

Posted 6/18/2026full-timeLondon • 🇬🇧 United KingdomMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Cloud

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Ensuring the operational stability and resilience of the software solutions owned by your team
Delivering high-quality software solutions that create measurable value for the business
Fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement, and establishing strong engineering standards
Ensuring cross-functional requirements such as security, performance, and reliability are built into delivery
Holding our Vendors and partners to account for all aspects of good software delivery
Challenging solution architecture, and helping drive the right approach for any given business requirement
Build, mentor, and manage a high-performing software engineering team. Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement within the team. Facilitate communication and collaboration among team members. Ensure budgets, people and resource allocation, and workload, balance across projects.
Oversee the planning, execution, and delivery of software initiatives, ensuring alignment with business goals, timelines, and customer outcomes. Manage risks and dependencies proactively, and work closely with Product, Design, and Delivery partners to define scope and priorities.
Drive the adoption of strong engineering practices, standards, and methodologies. Provide guidance on complex technical challenges, shape the team’s technical roadmap with senior engineers, and help balance technical investment with product and commercial priorities.
Establish high quality standards so software meets performance, reliability, and usability expectations. Support the ongoing maintenance and improvement of existing systems, ensuring issues are resolved quickly and effectively.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Previous polyglot hands-on senior 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,
Promoter of DevOps: you build it, you run it.
Strong understanding of testing strategies and reliability engineering
Excellent people management, interpersonal, analytical, and problem-solving skills
Ability to lead and line manage senior engineers and technical partners to a desired outcome, without prescribing it.
Excellent communication skills, both written and spoken and able to adjust for different, including non-technical audiences.
A servant-leadership mentality that is willing to take ownership of problems.
Able to influence people at senior levels and from the highly technical to non-technical

Benefits

Comp & perks

20% Colleague discount on most things from furniture, fashion and food.
A first-class welcome to M&S with a tailored induction and a wide range of training schemes to help with your learning and development. Having options to progress is something we’re proud of at M&S.
Attractive annual bonus, based on company performance and personal objectives.
Competitive holiday entitlement with the potential to buy extra holiday days!
Amazing perks and discounts via our M&S Choices website. Including GymSave – that offers up to 25% off Gym Memberships and the option to become an M&S Shareholder using our ShareSave & ShareBuy Schemes.
Charity Volunteer Day – A paid day away from work to support your chosen charity.
A very generous Defined Contribution Pension Scheme and Life Assurance.
Every colleague at M&S has access to a fantastic range of wellbeing support – this includes access to our 24/7 Virtual GP, PAM Assist to support you & your family as well as many other schemes

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Hard Skills & Tools

software engineeringsystem designsoftware architecturecloud computingDevOpstesting strategiesreliability engineeringscalable software solutionshigh-quality software deliveryengineering standards

Soft Skills

people managementinterpersonal skillsanalytical skillsproblem-solving skillscommunication skillscollaborationinnovationservant-leadershipinfluenceteam mentoring