Staff Software Engineer – Content Domain

Overview

As a Staff Software Engineer in the Content Domain Team, you will shape the core content and media platform used across M&S digital experiences. You’ll enable product, engineering, and content teams by building scalable backend capabilities, APIs, and tooling that accelerate delivery and improve editor and developer experiences. You’ll own event-driven workflows and federated GraphQL architecture, driving platform standards and governance. This is a unique chance to influence how content, media, and DAM capabilities are modeled and delivered at scale.

Pay / Benefits

• 20% colleague discount after probation
• Competitive holiday entitlement
• Discretionary bonus schemes
• Defined Contribution Pension Scheme and Life Assurance
• Wellbeing support including 24/7 Virtual GP
• Charity volunteer day

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve backend-heavy platform capabilities for content and media, including APIs, services, automation pipelines, and developer tooling
• Lead the design of event-driven architectures (Kafka / Confluent or equivalent) to support scalable content and asset workflows
• Own and evolve our federated GraphQL architecture, including schemas, orchestration, versioning, and standards
• Contribute hands-on production-quality code and tackle complex domain challenges
• Act as a technical authority on content platforms, headless CMS, DAM, and API-driven architectures within M&S

Key requirements

• Strong platform mindset focusing on enabling multiple teams
• Deep backend engineering experience with Java and distributed systems in production
• Strong Azure cloud platform experience for scalable, reliable services
• Solid understanding of event-driven architectures (Kafka/Confluent)
• Hands-on experience with GraphQL—schema design, federation, evolution, API governance (must have)
• Experience with headless CMS platforms and content modelling (strong plus)
• Working knowledge of TypeScript and JavaScript in API/tooling/integration contexts

• collaboration across cross-functional teams
• leadership and technical authority
• problem-solving and ownership
• Java backend development
• Distributed systems in production
• Azure cloud services

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