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Software Development Manager - Inbox
Java
Tesco Technology

Software Development Manager - Inbox

Tesco Technology
Kraków
Type of work
Undetermined
Experience
Mid
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

    Java
    advanced
    SQL
    advanced
    Spring
    regular
    Testing
    regular
    Docker
    regular
    Kubernetes
    regular
    AWS
    regular
    Azure
    regular
    CI/CD
    junior

Job description

Online interview
About the Tesco Technology Colleague Inbox team

Tesco Colleague Inbox is an internal means of communication for Tesco with all the employees; something like e-mail, adjusted to Tesco colleagues’ needs. You may be wondering why to provide our own service when there is a lot of e-mail services around the world? The answer is scale and customization.

Customization allows us to provide additional functionalities, that are difficult to get within standard services. For example: targeting the message to colleagues in a couple of certain stores, or all drives in the London area.

For scale, check out how many colleagues are working for Tesco.
We take responsibility for the software through its entire lifecycle. We practice continuous integration and delivery and support our code through to production and beyond.

 

Responsibilities
:

As a Software Development Manager, you’ll be leading an agile team of industry-leading engineers upon Tesco’s Colleagues APIs. You will be responsible for the future direction of the applications, solving problems, encouraging your team, and developing new features through quality, scalable, performant, and maintainable technical solutions. The solutions that you and your team will be responsible for will have a global reach, impacting hundreds of thousands of Tesco colleagues.


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 opportunities 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.
  • Adopt best practices in software engineering: design, testing, version control, documentation, build, deployment, monitoring, and operations. Build flexible systems choosing simple, straightforward solutions over more complex ones
  • Represent Colleague Inbox project 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 and evangelise team focus on performance, availability, reliability and security.
  • Contribute to the definition of features for services owned by your team
  • Collaborate closely with other teams in the area
  • 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

Skills:

  • Java: Advanced
  • SQL and non-SQL data stores: Advanced
  • Distributed systems architecture: Advanced
  • Spring, Spring boot: Regular
  • Functional approach: Regular
  • Networking – architecture, protocols and security: Regular
  • Testing (e.g. Unit Tests, E2E Tests): Regular
  • Knowledge of design patterns and engineering best practices: Advanced
  • Written & spoken English: Advanced (C1)
  • Docker and Kubernetes: Regular
  • Cloud platform (Microsoft Azure or equivalent): Regular
  • CI/CD tooling (Jenkins or equivalent): Basic

Experience

  • Previous experience with management of software engineering teams of 6+ people
  • 2+ years of commercial software development experience in the Java ecosystem
  • Experience in running and supporting software in production (dev-ops approach)
  • 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
  • Designing and developing systems for high availability and scalability
  • Experience working within an e-commerce or at-scale business where security, availability and reliability are valued
  • Depth of professional software engineering experience and best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations



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 option to use the funds on 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.