Software Engineer II - Fullstack

Company Description

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

As part of the store distribution 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.

Our team is modernizing the technologies used to drive our fulfilment network and depot operations. There are two main areas of our work:

• Supporting increased automation within our depots to make them more efficient.

• Developing modern applications to support our colleagues drive better outcomes for the business.

Focusing on the automation area, you’ll play a key role in shaping the future of Tesco’s Autonomous Mobile Robot adoption in our fresh food depots. You’ll start by building the understanding and ownership of the existing solution, with the goal of improving the efficiency and user experience. All that while influencing the technical direction along the way.

On the technical side, we are developing Java microservices which are exposed via React applications and REST APIs.  We use Kafka as a messaging backbone to provide strategic business analytics and insights via the Tesco Analytics Platform.  We deploy our applications to AKS, virtual machines on premise or increasingly to an internal Kubernetes platform.  We use Terraform to create our infrastructure as code.

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.

• 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.

• 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.

Qualifications:

Mandatory skills:

• At least 4 years of experience developing with Java 11+

• Experience working with Agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban)

• Experience in test-drive development

• Experience of designing and developing microservices / REST APIs

• Good English communication skills

Nice to have skills:

• Experience with Azure, or other cloud solutions

• Exposure to React

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

We always welcome conversations about flexible working, so feel free to talk to us during your application about how we can support you. We value connecting, collaborating, and innovating with our colleagues in person. 

At Tesco Technology, we work in a hybrid model. This role requires you to be based in or near Kraków, as we currently meet in the office 3 days a week.

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.