Software Development Engineer III - Frontend (Connect)
| Posting date: | 20 May 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 19 June 2024 |
| Location: | None, None |
| Company: | Tesco |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | tesco/TP/5958610/885682 |
Summary
About the role
As a Frontend / Web Software Engineer you’ll be working in an agile team of industry leading engineers upon developing Tesco Connect. Tesco Connect is an application which enables both our supply chain business team and suppliers to manage the demand and supply of all the products across all the stores and depots globally (essentially a control tower view of our supply chain, so super critical to our business), and are looking for a Senior Frontend Developer to continue growing the team. Working with Product Managers, you will be responsible for the future direction of the products that we build, solving problems and developing new features through quality, scalable, performant and maintainable technical solutions. Your applications make previously complex tasks simple with the impact ranging from saving time, effort, or money to re-defining normal. Some of the tech we are using: ES6, React, Styled-components, Webpack, Cypress, Docker, Azure DevOps
You will be responsible for
Software Development Engineers (SDEs) are the creative minds developing the software applications that make life easier for customers, colleagues, and suppliers. They are responsible for the entire development and support process for software solutions. Your applications make previously sophisticated tasks simple with the impact ranging from saving time, effort, or money to re-defining normal. Some of the key responsibilities are listed below:
- Using your in-depth knowledge of JavaScript, React and related tools / frameworks to develop and implement scalable frontend systems
- Identify patterns in code and refactor the code towards them where it increases understanding and/or maintainability with minimal mentorship
- Mentor and develop others around you, sharing knowledge with the wider engineering community
- Follow the standard processes of continuous BDD/TDD/Performance/Security/Smoke testing
- Support production systems, resolve incidents and performing root cause analysis
- Continually propose and drive process improvements, produce proof of concepts to evaluate new tools
You will need
We are looking for people who have a passion for Technology. You will likely have made open-source contributions and have a Github account. You will demonstrate experience of different platforms and technologies. We expect to see some or all of the following:
- Best-practices regarding all aspects of web development including design, semantic HTML mark-up, CSS, JavaScript, and related technologies
- Exposure to a variety of JavaScript frameworks and libraries such as: React, Redux, Webpack, React-Router and testing with React Testing Library Jest, Cypress, Jasmine, Enzyme, Mocha
- Awareness and practice of UI performance standard processes
- Understanding and exposure to integrating REST API endpoints
- A desire to write readable, maintainable, modular, and extendable code
- Design and develop larger systems and features, anticipating medium term (3-6 month) vectors of change, designing, and abstracting accordingly
- Exposure to the DevOps model and automation of everything by default
- An ability to profile and optimise code General Skills:
- Problem solving, analysis and computational skills. You are comfortable designing systems and reasoning about them. When solving problems, you take a thorough and logical approach to solving them and retaining ownership through to resolution
- 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
- Written and verbal communication skills. You can communicate effectively and efficiently considering the nature of your audience
What’s in it for you
We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we give our wonderful colleagues bags of benefits. Including wellbeing services, an award-winning pension scheme and much, much more, our colleague reward package keeps on giving. And helps make every day a little better for you and your family. These include but are not limited to:
- Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary
- Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
- Buy holiday salary sacrifice scheme (for salaried roles)
- Private medical insurance
- Retirement savings plan - save between 4% and 7.5% and Tesco will match your contribution
- Life Assurance - 5 x contractual pay
- 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years’ service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave
- The right to request flexible working from your first day with us
- Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing
- A Colleague Clubcard for you & a family member (after 3 months of service), giving you access to lots of discounts in-store & online
- Great colleague deals and discounts, saving you money on everyday purchases, eating out and utility bills for the home
- Access to our colleague networks providing a space for colleagues to come together from a range of backgrounds. For more information about our colleague networks please click here
- Opportunities to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and award-winning training, to help you achieve the job and career you want
Click Here to read more about the full range of benefits we have available for our colleagues
About us
Tesco has become a market leader by doing the little things that really matter for our customers and colleagues.
It’s part of what makes Tesco such a great place to work, and we’re proud to have been accredited as one of Britain’s Top Employers again this year.
We're the UK's number one retailer and we pride ourselves on offering a great shopping experience. We are passionate about our food, merchandise and services and will always try to get things right for our customers.
But did you know we also offer great job opportunities? With stores, distribution centres and offices across the UK, and a vast variety of roles, we are always looking for people who have a hunger to work with customers and colleagues across our exciting business.
We believe in treating each other with respect and giving everyone an equal opportunity to get on. It's our people that make the difference every day - helping us make a difference for our customers
Should you be successful in your application, your offer will be subject to and conditional upon you providing your bank account details before your agreed start date.
For more information about us please visit www.tescoplc.com
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