Software Development Engineer III - Tesco Connect

What’s in it for you

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• Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
• Buy holiday salary sacrifice scheme (for salaried roles)
• Private medical insurance
• Retirement savings plan - save between 4% and 7.5% and Tesco will match your contribution
• Life Assurance - 5 x contractual pay
• 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years’ service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave
• The right to request flexible working from your first day with us
• Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing
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• Opportunities to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and award-winning training, to help you achieve the job and career you want

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About the role

As a Software Development Engineer, you’ll be working in an agile team of 
industry leading engineers upon developing Tesco Connect. Tesco Connect is an 
application which enables both our supply chain business team and suppliers to 
manage the demand and supply of all the products across all the stores and 
depots globally (essentially a control tower view of our supply chain, so supercritical to our business), and are looking for a Software Development Engineer to 
continue growing the team.
Working with Product Managers, you will be responsible for the future direction 
of the products that we build, solving problems and developing new features 
through quality, scalable, performant and maintainable technical solutions.
Your applications make previously complex tasks simple with the impact ranging 
from saving time, effort, or money to re-defining normal.
Some of the tech we are using: Java, Spring Boot, ES6, React, Cypress, 
Couchbase, Kafka, Docker, Azure DevOps

You will be responsible for

Software Development Engineers (SDEs) are the creative minds developing the 
software applications that make life easier for customers, colleagues, and 
suppliers. They are responsible for the entire development and support process 
for software solutions. Your applications make previously complex tasks simple 
with the impact ranging from saving time, effort, or money to re-defining normal.
Some of the key responsibilities are listed below:
• Take a business problem and come up with the technical strategy (e.g.,
push vs pull, real time vs batches, sync vs async) within the team, high 
level design and lead the implementation
• Identify patterns in code and refactor the code towards them where it 
increases understanding and/or maintainability with minimal guidance
• Mentor and develop others around you, sharing knowledge with the wider 
engineering community
• Follow the best practices of continuous 
BDD/TDD/Performance/Security/Smoke testing
• Support production systems, resolve incidents and performing root cause 
analysis
• Continually propose and drive process improvements, produce proof of 
concepts to evaluate new tools
 

You will need

We are looking for people who have a passion for Technology. You will likely 
have made open-source contributions and have a Github account. You will 
demonstrate experience of different platforms and technologies.
We expect to see some or all of the following:
• Demonstrate in depth knowledge of IDE, language and toolset as a Java, 
Full-Stack, or Front End (React/Angular) Developer
• A desire to write readable, maintainable, modular, and extendable code
• Experience scaling systems
• Experience with reactive programming is considered a plus
• Design and develop larger systems and features, anticipating medium 
term (3-6 month) vectors of change, designing, and abstracting 
accordingly
• Exposure to the DevOps model and automation of everything by default
• Understanding of infrastructure automation and the use of IaaS/PaaS 
technologies
• An ability to profile and optimise code
• Develop secure code and infrastructure by default, taking advantage of the 
available tooling to do further probing
General Skills:
• Problem solving, analysis and computational skills. You are comfortable 
designing systems and reasoning about them. When tackling problems, 
you take a thorough and logical approach to solving them and retaining 
ownership through to resolution
• Customer focus. You can find the right balance between outcome delivery 
and technical excellence. You place the needs of our customers above the 
needs of you and the team
• Written and verbal communication skills. You can communicate effectively 
and efficiently considering the nature of your audience

About us

Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move. Our core purpose is ‘Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day’. Serving means more than a transactional relationship with our customers. It means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, for the communities we are part of and for the planet.

We are proud to have an inclusive culture at Tesco where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. At Tesco, we not only celebrate diversity, but recognise the value and opportunity it brings. We're committed to creating a workplace where differences are valued, and make sure that all colleagues are given the same opportunities. We’re proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please click here.

We’re a big business and we can offer a range of diverse full-time & part-time working patterns across our many business areas, which means that we can find something that works for you.  We work in a more blended pattern - combining office and remote working.  Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate.  If you are applying internally, please speak to the Hiring Manager about how this can work for you - Everyone is welcome at Tesco.