Software Development Engineer III - Developer Platform

Software Development Engineer III – Developer Platform

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About the role

At Tesco, we believe in the power of spending more time together, face to face, than apart. 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 recognise that life looks a little different for each of us and welcome flexible working discussions. The Engineering Effectiveness organisation within Technology exists to make the work of over 2,000 Tesco software engineers frictionless and delightful. We enable fast access to information, provide valuable platforms and reduce toil, making the standard way the easiest way to develop, build and deploy software. We are a team of product managers, software and systems engineers, and other experts from the UK, Hungary, and India, customer focussed and data‑led. The Tesco Developer Platform (TDP) is a newly envisaged platform that developers can leverage to build, deploy and operate software in a self‑service capacity.

Responsibilities

• Provide ownership and leadership in developing TDP, aware of the short and long‑term goals of TDP.
• Provide an impact that reaches across teams, able to contribute in shaping up the platform features for the future.
• Provide the right level of coaching to the TDP team/engineers, alongside developing key platform features.
• Provide accountability for the platform software quality, able to contribute to raising the quality bar of the TDP codebase.
• Participate in design and planning sessions and ensure that TDP is built with quality, scale, and resiliency for future requirements.
• Bring in the change mindset and collaborate with peers and stakeholders within and outside the directorate.
• Provide the necessary ownership on resolution of production issues, drive operational excellence.

Qualifications

• Experience with Golang (considered a plus)
• Experience with Java 8+ (considered a plus)
• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., Azure, AWS)
• Experience with both SQL/NoSQL databases
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code processes and practices (Terraform)
• Experience with Kubernetes
• Experience scaling systems.
• Experience with CI/CD tools and processes
• Experience working with modern software development methodologies, such as Kanban
• Experience with commit‑to‑production (considered a plus)

Benefits

• 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 year of 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

Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer’s favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move. Our core purpose is ‘Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day’. We are committed to an inclusive culture where everyone feels able to be themselves. We celebrate diversity and are accredited Disability Confident Leader, aiming for a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. We offer diverse full‑time and part‑time working patterns with a blended office‑remote approach.

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Seniority level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

Retail