Principal Software Development Engineer - Quote API

What’s in it for you

We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we give our wonderful colleagues bags of benefits. Including wellbeing services, an award-winning pension scheme and much, much more, our colleague reward package keeps on giving. And helps make every day a little better for you and your family. These include but are not limited to:

• Annual bonus scheme of up to 45% of base salary
• Car allowance of £7,320 per annum
• 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 6% - 10% and Tesco will contribute 1.5 times this amount
• 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
• A Colleague Clubcard for you & a family member (after 3 months of service), giving you access to lots of discounts in-store & online
• Access to our colleague networks providing a space for colleagues to come together from a range of backgrounds. For more information about our colleague networks please click here

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About the role

We know life looks a little different for each of us. That’s why at Tesco, we always welcome chats about flexible working. Some people are at the start of their careers, some want the freedom to do the things they love. Others are going through life-changing moments like becoming a carer, nearing retirement, adapting to parenthood, or something else. So, talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.

The transactional APIs are a collection of services that support the retail platform, which powers the shopping for all of the customers in Tesco. They are capable of handling transactions across all of Tesco’s channels and is of central importance to Tesco’s strategic plans to better serve 28 million shoppers each week in the UK, and more around the globe. The impact of the team’s work is visible through Tesco's tills, websites and mobile apps - it is rare to find a job with this level of challenge and impact.

CAP theorem is a regular and very practical topic of conversation within the teams.

The services are built with Java, Vert.x, Spring Boot, Micronaut, Couchbase and Kafka, among other technologies. They run on AWS & Azure with fully automated testing in continuous deployment pipelines. The teams work according to Agile principles, adapting Kanban and other techniques as appropriate to succeed.

The teams are supportive of each other and highly collaborative both internally and externally, with pairing a common occurrence where all code is reviewed via Github.

If that sounds exciting then we'd love to hear from you!

You will be responsible for

• Apply your in-depth knowledge of multiple programming languages, associated frameworks, and the tool ecosystem to create elegant solutions to problems.
• Adopt new languages and new paradigms and produce proof of concepts to evaluate new tools, applying them to the problem domain where they deliver significant benefit.
• Lead group discussions on design and model multiple domains, articulating contexts and boundaries and the rationale behind them, shaping the wider application landscape.
• Work with product teams to understand and translate their needs into improvements in your product, translating requirements into tasks and code and developing high-quality code that can lead to rapid delivery.
• Support production systems, resolving incidents, and performing root cause analysis.
• Share knowledge with the wider engineering community, mentoring and developing those around you to improve the organisation.

You will need

Experience we're looking to see;

• Demonstrated experience designing, developing and running whole system landscapes.
• Experience across large engineering organisations.
• Experience acting as a technical authority across multiple domains and multiple technologies.
• Experience proposing architectural patterns for adoption by an organisation.
• Experience guiding large programmes of work.
• Experience driving the adoption of inner sourcing initiatives.
• A track record of delivering large-scale, well architected web solutions at pace
• You drive and implement best practice improvements
• You confidently and competently impart knowledge to users, customers, and other team members
• Strong understanding of running production applications.
• Designing and building distributed systems, for scalability, availability and performance
• Testing everything, automating everything

The relevant skills; 

• A polyglot set of languages, frameworks and technologies on which you can draw from your background of commercial experience with.
• A high degree of emotional intelligence; you are aware of your own emotions, how you appear and can self-reflect on your actions. You can empathise with others and modify your behaviour and style accordingly.
• Problem-solving, analysis and computational skills; you are comfortable crafting systems and reasoning about them. When solving problems, you take a detailed and logical approach to solving them and you retain ownership through to resolution.
• Customer focus; you can find the right balance between outcome delivery and technical excellence and place the needs of our customers above those of you and the team.

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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.