Software Engineer - Backend (Colleague Clubcard API)

About the role

The Colleague Clubcard & Pension team builds and runs enterprise grade APIs that power two of Tesco’s flagship colleague benefits: the Colleague Clubcard and the Retirement Savings scheme. We design secure, scalable, and highly reliable services that provide seamless access to colleague benefit data across multiple systems and countries. We operate with a strong DevOps mindset, owning our services end to end through design, development, deployment, and production support.

What is in it for you

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: 

• 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 

• Referral Bonus 

• Sports activities with a personal trainer in the office 

• 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. 

You will be responsible for

- Design, build, and maintain secure, scalable, and highly reliable backend services that power colleague benefits. 

- Contribute to feature design and technical discussions for services owned by the team, ensuring solutions meet business and compliance requirements. 

- Apply DevOps mindset by owning services end to end, including development, deployment, monitoring, and operational support. 

- Troubleshoot production issues, perform root‑cause analysis, and implement robust long‑term fixes. 

- Communicate progress, risks, and technical insights effectively within the team and wider Tesco stakeholders.

You will need

- 3+ years of hands on experience as a Software Engineer within the JVM ecosystem (Java / Spring Boot). 

- Good understanding of cloud platforms (Azure preferred) and experience with Infrastructure as Code, e.g., Terraform. 

- Solid grasp of software engineering fundamentals, including testing strategies, CI/CD pipelines, version control, and code review practices. 

- Capability to take a business or product requirement and contribute to defining the technical approach. 

- Able to work independently day‑to‑day with minimal guidance. 

- Experience working in an Agile environment (Scrum or Kanban). 

- A proactive mindset, comfortable proposing improvements, identifying risks, and helping shape better ways of working. 

Technology stack we are using:

Languages: Java 21

Frameworks: Spring Boot

Cloud: Azure (AKS/Kubernetes), Terraform

Architecture: Microservices, DDD, Event Sourcing

DB: PostgreSQL

CI/CD: GitHub Actions + ArgoCD

Monitoring & alerting: Splunk, New Relic

Testing: Spock

VCS: GitHub

Others: Zendesk, JIRA, Miro

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