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 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. 

Job Description

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

1. Supporting increased automation within our depots to make them more efficient.
2. Developing modern applications to support our colleagues drive better outcomes for the business.

As a part of the first area, we are constantly exploring integration with numerous automation providers. We therefore need support to drive innovation with the automation providers to optimize the flow of stock within the depots. In the second area, we are constantly developing new applications to support our colleagues drive further improvements.

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.

Qualifications:

Technology stack which we are using:

• Languages: Java 17, Typescript
• Frameworks: Spring Boot, React
• Cloud: VMWare Private Cloud, Kubernetes, AKS
• Architecture: Microservices, CQRS, Event Driven, Reactive
• DB / Cache: PostgreSQL, Couchbase, Redis
• Testing: TestContainers, Jest, JUnit
• Dev / CD Tools: GitHub, Github Actions, Jenkins
• Monitoring & alerting: Splunk, New Relic, xMatters
• Other: Zendesk & JIRA

You will need:

• 6+ years of experience developing with Java 11+
• Experience working with Agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban)
• Experience in test driven development
• Experience of designing and developing microservices / REST APIs
• Experience with Azure, or other cloud solutions
• Exposure to React
• Good English communication skills

Additional Information

Hybrid working

We’ve recently moved to hybrid working. We love working from home, but we also love connecting, collaborating and innovating with our colleagues in person. We meet in our office in Kraków for 2 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 chose to join our business, we will provide you with:

• Permanent contract from the go – as a sign of our trust in your abilities
• Up to 20% yearly salary bonus – for employment contract colleagues only – based on both individual and business performance
• Additional 4 days of paid leave to support your well-being and family life (only for employment contract colleagues)
• Heightened income costs (KUP)
• MacBook as your tool for work
• Private healthcare (LuxMed)
• Cafeteria & Multisport
• Learning opportunities - certified technical training and learning platforms like Udemy, Pluralsight and O’reily
•  Sports activities with a personal trainer
• Referral Bonus
• Relocation Help

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.