At a Glance
- Tasks: Join Tesco's Personalisation team to build tech that personalises customer experiences.
- Company: Tesco, a leading supermarket and tech innovator with a focus on community.
- Benefits: Flexible working, competitive salary, and support for career growth.
- Other info: Inclusive culture with opportunities for remote work and collaboration.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on millions of customers while tackling exciting engineering challenges.
- Qualifications: Strong Java backend experience and skills in microservices and APIs.
The predicted salary is between 63000 - 77000 £ per year.
Every customer is different, and we're building the technology to make every Tesco experience feel personal.
Join Tesco's Personalisation team and help shape the experiences of millions of customers every day by powering real-time recommendations, offers, targeting, and experimentation across our web, mobile, and in-store channels.
Our platforms combine real-time data, machine learning, and large-scale distributed systems to turn customer insights into intelligent decisions in milliseconds.
You'll work on complex engineering challenges spanning streaming data, low-latency decisioning services, and MLpowered systems, while collaborating closely with product, data science, and analytics teams.
This is an opportunity to build technology at significant scale, influence the evolution of our personalisation platform, and directly impact how millions of customers discover, shop, and save with Tesco.
- Building low-latency, high-throughput services for personalisation
- Developing Java / Spring Boot microservices with REST/g RPC APIs
- Working with Kafka and event-driven architectures
- Building pipelines using Apache Flink and Apache Beam
- Integrating ML models and feature stores
- Working with No SQL databases and Redis caching
- Using Apache Camel for integration where required
- Collaborating with product, data science, and analytics teams
- Writing automated tests and improving reliability
- Monitoring systems using New Relic, Splunk, and metrics platforms
- Supporting CI/CD pipelines and deployments
- Contributing to experimentation (A/B testing
- Strong Java backend experience
- Experience building microservices and APIs
- Understanding of event-driven systems
- Familiarity with stream processing concepts
- Knowledge of distributed systems
- Strong communication and teamwork skills
- Interest in data-driven personalisation systems
- Nice to have
- Experience with Apache Flink and Apache Beam
- Experience with Kafka
- Familiarity with Apache Camel
- Experience with No SQL databases (Cassandra, Dynamo DB) and Redis
- Cloud experience (GCP or AWS)
- Docker and Kubernetes
- ML model serving or feature stores
- A/B testing platforms
- Terraform or infrastructure as code
- Performance and scalability optimisation
You might know us as a supermarket, technology company or even for our award-winning mobile network.
Truth is, we're all of those things, and much more.
Our colleagues work with one goal in mind, helping to make every day a little better for our customers, colleagues and communities all over the world.
No two customers are the same, neither are our colleagues.
At Tesco, we champion a balance that lets you thrive both in and out of work.
Spend 60% of your week collaborating with colleagues at our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely.
Whether you're just kicking off your career, juggling passions, or navigating big life events, we're here to support you.
We always welcome a conversation about flexible working, so talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.
We're proud to be an accredited Disability Confident Leader, where everyone's welcome. That's why we commit to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process.
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Software Development Engineer - Personalisation employer: Tesco UK
Tesco UK is an excellent employer, offering a supportive work culture that prioritises customer care and teamwork. With flexible shifts and opportunities for personal growth, employees can enjoy a rewarding career while making a positive impact in their local communities across Exeter. The company values its staff, providing training and development to ensure everyone can thrive in their roles.
