Senior Software Engineer - Backend (Transcend)

About us

Tesco is a leading multinational retailer, with more than 330 000 colleagues.

Our software is used by millions of people across several countries every day. Whether it’s the tills and websites our customers use, or the systems our colleagues and partners use, you’ll play your part in keeping it running like a well-oiled machine. And when a business problem pops up? You and the creative minds in our team will be challenged to solve it.

As Tech Hub we cooperate within the group of Tesco Technology Hubs located in the UK, Poland, Hungary, and India.

What our colleagues like the most at Tesco:

• We develop our own products

• We make an impact; large scale of operation

• Accountability and respect are given to us

• We cooperate and support each other

• There are great colleagues who are divided into small teams here

• We can develop and learn new things

About the role

We are looking for individuals to join the Transcend project at Tesco — a dynamic, fast-evolving initiative that offers ample opportunities for personal and professional growth, as well as direct influence on the final product. Our work goes beyond simply fulfilling requirements; we focus on solving real problems and shaping solutions through collaboration and continuous research. Ideal candidates thrive in environments with shifting priorities and are eager to contribute at both strategic and execution levels.

Technology stack which we are using:

• Languages: Java 21

• Frameworks: Modern frameworks like Spring Boot, Spring WebFlux

• Cloud: Azure, Terraform

• Architecture: Microservices

• DB: Couchbase

• CI/CD: GitHub Actions + ArgoCD

• Monitoring & alerting: Grafana

• Testing: Spock, Gatling

• VCS: GitHub

• Others: Zendesk, JIRA, Miro

Responsibilities

We operate in a DevOps philosophy. We take responsibility for the software through its entire lifecycle. We practice continuous integration, delivery, and support of our code through to production and beyond.

Whilst specific responsibilities will be dependent upon the changing needs of the Tesco business, the following provides an overview of the role’s key responsibilities and measures:

• Be a coder; review and contribute code.

• Proactively propose solutions.

• Work in the team – support and be supported in your team.

• Design: design, propose and review architecture design.

• Focus on performance, availability, reliability, and security.

• Contribute to the definition of features for services owned by your team.

• Effectively communicate your and your team’s progress to your team members, your manager, and wider Tesco colleagues.

Qualifications

You will need

• Around 6+ years of experience as a Software Engineer within the JVM ecosystem 

• Working with Agile environment

• Demonstrate excellent understanding of language & framework and a good working knowledge of the abstraction layer underneath 

• Take a business problem and come up with the technical strategy (push vs pull etc, real time vs batches, sync vs async) within the team, high level design and lead the implementation 

• Need minimal directions or guidance and collaborate with SDEs across teams working on the same or similar business problem 

• You showcase exemplary behaviour in your work – your design, delivery, code, processes all set examples for your team 

• Influence your team’s technical and business strategy by suggesting novel approaches 

• Able to communicate your ideas and get feedback from different stakeholders and drive convergence to achieve the right outcomes 

• Proactively mentor the rest of the team and help in hiring 

• Ensure design or architectural deficiencies are addressed and routinely simplify integration of your peer teams with your team’s software 

• Consistently lead delivery of valuable features 

• Continually propose and drive process improvements 

• Help elaborate requirements where necessary 

Unsure if you fit all the criteria? Apply and give us the chance to evaluate your potential – you could be the perfect fit!

Additional information

Hybrid work

We know life looks a little different for each of us. That’s why at Tesco, we always welcome chats about different flexible working options. 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, adapting to parenthood, or something else. So, talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.  This role requires you to be based in or near Kraków, as you will spend 60% (3 days) of your week collaborating with colleagues at our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely.

Benefits

Tesco is a diverse and exciting employer, dedicated to being #aplacetogeton, providing career-defining opportunities to all of our colleagues. 

 If you choose to join our business, we will provide you with (for all): 

• MacBook as your tool for work 

• Learning opportunities - certified technical training and learning platforms like Udemy.

• Referral Bonus 

• Sports activities with a personal trainer in the office 

Benefits for colleagues on employment of contract only: 

• Additional 4 days of paid leave to support your well-being and family life 

• Up to 20% yearly salary bonus – based on both individual and business performance 

• Private healthcare (LuxMed) 

• Cafeteria & Multisport 

• Supporting those, who are not yet eligible for full holiday entitlement, by expanding their pool from 20 to 25 days 

• Relocation Help 

• IP Tax Deductible Costs 

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

Tesco is committed to celebrating diversity and everyone is welcome at Tesco. As a Disability Confident Employer, we’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process, allowing candidates the opportunity to thrive and inform us of any reasonable adjustments they may require.