As part of the MandS Software Engineering team, youll be joining a well-loved historic brand, working on solutions that serves millions of loyal customers and thousands of colleagues! With ethical values that run right through the companys core and technology leaders that truly understand software engineers and engineering, its an exciting time as were 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 Software Engineering Manager who will provide technical expertise, ship thoughtfully and operate with excellence. Being creative, curious, and confident, you will be an integral part of our empowered, self-managing, multi-disciplinary engineering teams - designing, building, releasing, and maintaining products. You will play a key role in driving our ambition to create a best-in-class software engineering team, environment, and culture. We are looking for people to join our community of engineers to drive this transformation, build a modern digital ecosystem using exciting technologies and do the best work of their careers.Were 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, youll 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.Build, mentor, and manage a high-performing software engineering team. Ensure budgets, people and resource allocation, and workload, balance across projects.

- Agile Delivery:

Oversee the planning, execution, and delivery of software projects, ensuring alignment with business objectives and timelines. Monitor project progress, risks, and dependencies, taking corrective action when necessary. Work closely with product management, design, programme management, and others to define project scope, goals, and deliverables.

- Drive the adoption of standards, and methodologies for software development. Provide technical guidance and support to engineering teams for complex projects. Evaluate and recommend new technologies, tools, and platforms to improve the engineering process and software quality. Work with senior engineers to develop the team''s technical roadmap and work closely with the product management team to prioritise it against the commercial roadmap.

- Quality Assurance and Maintenance:

Establish and enforce quality standards, ensuring software products meet performance, reliability, and usability requirements. Oversee the maintenance and support of existing software systems, ensuring prompt resolution of issues and bugs.

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

- Java / Kotlin

- Were 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.#LI-Hybrid#