Software Development Engineer (SDEII) - Customer Fulfilment
| Posting date: | 09 October 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 08 November 2024 |
| Location: | None, None |
| Company: | Tesco |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | tesco/TP/15430771/914224 |
Summary
About the role
At Tesco, we believe in the power of spending more time together, face to face, than apart. So, during your working week, you can expect to spend 60% of your time in one of our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely. We also recognise that life looks a little different for each of us. Some people are at the start of their careers, some want the freedom to do the things they love. Others are going through life-changing moments like becoming a carer, nearing retirement, adapting to parenthood, or something else. That’s why at Tesco, we always welcome a conversation about flexible working. So, talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.
We are in the process of building, evolving and rolling out our inhouse built Fulfilment Point System (FPS) platform to all our Customer Order Fulfilment locations within the UK and Internationally. FPS is new generation Fulfilment application which enables all the customer order fulfilment centres to pick, marshal and dispatch customer orders on one hand and manage the site workflow through a real-time visualisation and intervention tool, on the other hand!
Ours is a globally distributed, full stack java tech team and our building blocks consist of a set of Microservice components, backend APIs, Rich UI, robust Eventing Platform and Data layer components utilising a wide range of modern technologies including:
- Java, RxJava, SpringBoot
- React and Node JS
- Kafka, PostgreSQL and Couchbase
- Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Splunk, AppDynamics, New Relic
- Azure Cloud
We are responsible for the software throughout the lifecycle. We maintain a DevOps culture employing continuous integration and delivery, supporting our code through to production and beyond.
You will be responsible for
Software Development Engineers (SDEs) are the creative minds developing the software applications that make life easier for customers. You will have responsibility for the entire development and support process for a software programme. Your applications make previously complex tasks simple with the impact ranging from saving time, effort or money to re-defining normal. High level expectations from the role:
- Take a business problem and come up with the technical strategy (push vs pull etc, real time vs batches, sync vs async) within the team, high level design and lead the implementation.
- Need minimal directions or guidance and collaborate with SDEs across teams working on the same or similar business problem
- You showcase exemplary behaviour in your work – your design, delivery, code, processes all set examples for your team.
- Ensure design or architectural deficiencies are addressed and routinely simplify integration of your peer teams with your team’s software
You will need
- Previous experience of having done product development using agile methodologies
- Hands-on experience of building and supporting reliable and operationally robust full stack and distributed Java applications / products
- Any previous experience of having contributed in a globally distributed software engineering teams would be a big plus.
Skills relevant for the job:
Programming
- Demonstrate in depth knowledge of IDE, language, and toolset in language of choice.
- Implement critical path components in a large or complex or project.
- Demonstrate excellent understanding of language & framework and a good working knowledge of the abstraction layer underneath
- Comfortably test drive any feature/comfortable with TDD cycle
- Comfortably debug/find complex problems
Design
- Identify and apply appropriate design patterns to problems
- Understand and demonstrate Idempotency in service designs
- Understand importance of domain model and can coherently model a problem domain within a given context
- Understand how to design for performance at all levels
Development Practice
- Automate everything by default
- Build a CI/CD pipeline
Tech Stack Specialization
- Java, Spring boot
- Kafka
- Couchbase
- Postgres
- CI/CD: Jenkins / Azure pipelines / Git Actions.
- Cloud: Azure
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What’s in it for you
We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we make sure our Tesco colleague benefits package takes care of you – both in and out of work. Click Here to find out more!
- Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary
- Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
- Private medical insurance
- 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
- 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
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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