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Software Development Manager - Java
Java
Tesco Technology

Software Development Manager - Java

Tesco Technology
Kraków
Type of work
Undetermined
Experience
Senior
Employment Type
B2B, Permanent
Operating mode
Office
Tesco Technology

Tesco Technology

At Tesco Technology we are building the next generation online and in-store retail platforms which will set the benchmark for a Technology-led customer-centric retail experience. We take responsibility for the software through its entire lifecycle.

Company profile

Tech stack

    Databases
    advanced
    Team Management
    advanced
    SDLC
    advanced
    Java 11
    advanced
    Kubernetes
    regular
    Splunk
    regular
    Jenkins
    regular
    RxJava 2
    junior
    Cloud
    nice to have

Job description

Online interview
Friendly offer
Company Description

Our vision here at Tesco is to become every customer's favorite way to shop, whether they are at home, in store, on the move … anywhere in their world. With our unrivalled physical and digital assets and an ambitious investment programme, we aim to become the world's best multi-channel retailer.

Everything is underpinned by our continuous drive for the best tools and technology to deliver our vision. We’re driving innovation, evolving our product development process and transforming our technology to become the world’s leading retailer.

We need people who share our ambition to deliver for our customers. We want passionate, talented and hardworking individuals willing to take the initiative and drive us forwards. In return we offer a huge challenge, strong support, a great team, an excellent benefit package, and significant career development opportunities.

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

Job Description

About the project.

Customer Order Domain is a Tier 1 domain and one of the major building blocks of the retail platform at Tesco. Customer Order orchestrates the end-to-end shopping experience for Tesco customers. This happens across APIs such as Product, Quote, Loss Prevention, Fulfilment, Contact and Payment. 

The Role – Software Development Manager - Backend

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:

  • Foster careers of engineers reporting to you by finding opportunity for growth, coaching, addressing concerns and if necessary, implementing performance management.
  • Regular 1-2-1s with all direct reports
  • Build and nurture effective, high performant teams that consistently deliver quality software whilst balancing time frames and needs.
  • Represent contact within wider technical discussions across different stakeholder groups, and be effective in doing so by constantly broadening your understanding of our technology landscape.
  • Take ownership for the delivery of specific outcomes, or work across wider groups in conjunction with programme management to deliver more significant outcomes. 
  • Remain a hands-on coder. Contribute code during team sprints.
  • Lead team focus on performance, availability, reliability and security.
  • Contribute to the definition of features for services owned by your team.
  • Continuously improve yourself and your team by suggesting and helping implement new Engineering processes and practices.
  • Mentor less experienced developers.
  • Effectively communicate your and your team’s progress to your team members, your Manager and wider Tesco colleagues.

Qualifications

Key skills and experience:

You’ll need to have demonstrated experience of:

Technical skills:

  • Java 11, Spring boot, Micronaut
  • Microsoft Azure or equivalent Cloud platform with Kubernetes
  • Couchbase NoSQL databases
  • Knowledge of design patterns and engineering best practices
  • Search with Elastic Search & event driven with Kafka

Personal skills:

  • Passion for product led development
  • Excellent communication in English
  • Ability to work through ambiguities
  • Provide clear direction to the team aspects

Experience

  • Previous experience with management of software engineering teams of around 8 people.
  • Problem solving, analysis and computational skills. You are comfortable designing systems and reasoning about them. When tackling problems, you take a thorough and logical approach to solving them and you retain ownership through to resolution.
  • Test driven development, Adherence to strict SLO/SLIs
  • Experience working within an e-commerce or at- scale of millions of API calls business where security, availability and reliability are valued
  • Customer focus. You can find the right balance between outcome delivery and technical excellence. You place the needs of our customers above the needs of you and the team.
  • Designing and developing systems for high availability and scalability
  • Experience in Retail would be a big plus

Additional Information

What’s 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 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
  • Extensive private healthcare - complex care package including a wide range of specialists, medical services, and free flu vaccination
  • Cafeteria & Multisport – subsidized MyBenefit cafeteria platform with an option to use the funds on the multisport card.
  • Relocation Help - professional service to secure relevant working permits and other necessary documents;
  • Learning opportunities - certified technical training and learning platforms like Udemy, Pluralsight and O’reily.
  • Referral Bonus – You’ll get 4500 PLN for each colleague you successfully refer to work with us.
  • Optional life insurance – wide variety of insurance options from our partner, available optionally at a significant discount.

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


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