Senior Software Engineer – Kotlin/Android (Store Fulfillment)

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, Czech Republic 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

As part of the Store Fulfillment Engineering team, you will get the opportunity to work on the software applications and services that ensure our stores have the products our customers need. The work you do will improve the colleague experience in our depots and drive improved efficiencies to our extensive fulfilment network. And when it comes to ideas, we’re as ambitious as you are.

We are actively seeking a dynamic Senior Software Engineer to join our engineering team in delivering innovative solutions for the Group Distribution Platform.

The ideal candidate will possess strong technical expertise and a passion for fostering innovation. Your role will be crucial in ensuring project success and promoting a culture of continuous improvement. In our fast-paced, agile environment, your focus on quality, security, and user impact will be key.

You will be responsible for

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.

• Design: design, propose and review architecture design.

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

• Cross-platform, lightweight & mobile-first progressive web applications by design.

• 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.

You will need

• Around 6+ years of experience as a Software Engineer developing mobile applications for Android.

• Proficiency in Kotlin and Java.

• Knowledge of application architectures (MVI, MVVM, Clean Architecture, Hexagonal/Onion) and the ability to apply them in practice.

• Experience with libraries and tools such as: Jetpack Compose, Hilt/Dagger/Koin, Coroutines/Flow, Retrofit/OkHttp/Ktor, Room, WorkManager.

• Strong awareness of code quality: TDD, unit/instrumentation tests, UI tests, familiarity with testing frameworks (JUnit, Espresso, MockK, Robolectric, Wiremock).

• Practical experience with CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD or similar), build and test automation.

• 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 problems

• 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 with hiring

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

• Consistently lead the 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!

What is in it for you

Hybrid working

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):

• Permanent contract from the go – as a sign of our trust in your abilities

• MacBook as your tool for work

• Learning opportunities - certified technical training and learning platforms like Udemy, Pluralsight and O’reily

• 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.