Principal Software Dev Engr

About the Tesco Technology - Commercials

We design and build the systems and processes that allow our commercial colleagues to source, select and sell the best products for our customers. We cover the entire lifecycle of products, where we source (suppliers), what we buy (products), where we sell (ranging), where to find on shelf/screen (planogram) through to how we manage the exit of products from stores (stock/waste/price integrity mgmt.).

Delivering this involves multiple engineering products that form part of Tesco’s Retail Platform, built using micro-services, cloud-native and serve at scale. We are a group team and provide solutions for all our markets.

As an engineering organisation, we have strong emphasis on open-source tools and technologies. We work on exciting opportunities that simplifies the customer journey, enhances supplier interaction and enable omni-channel with multiple fulfilment options. With Woosh, we enabled 30 mins delivery of fresh products. We deal with exciting engineering scale challenges with millions of API hits across 5 countries and that calls for some real innovation. We use hybrid cloud with deployments across public and private cloud spread out to multiple zones for failover. Our engineering culture encourage ownership, accountability, and teamwork.

Principal Software Development Engineer

Tesco are committed to making the business a more Engineering-led technology business akin to that of revered software houses and as such are restructuring our organizational capability. As a result, Tesco now require a number of Technologists with a software engineering heritage to join the business and reshape the way that development is executed and delivered across the global business.
Principal Software Development Engineer are the creative minds developing the software applications that make life easier for customers. They are responsible for the entire development and support process for a software program with a DevOps mind-set. They produce high quality working software that add value to the customers. Their applications make previously complex tasks simple with the impact ranging from saving time, effort or money to re-defining normal.

Qualifications & Experience:

BE / B.Tech /M.Tech in Computer Science related field with 15+ years of experience with Java as stack preferably

• Minimum 10 + years of experience building large scalable systems
• Strong experience in architecting and building multi-tiered, Fullstack & distributed systems.
• Knowledge of New & Emerging Technologies to design distributed & highly available for performance.
• Outstanding problem-solving abilities
• Ability to achieve & deliver projects by building consensus in a complex & distributed environment
• Solid background with hands-on experience as a Principal-level software development engineer
• Extensive experience of mentoring junior engineers to success
• Strong communication & Influencing skills
•  Very positive & pragmatic mindset to get things done

In this job, you will

• Focus on building highly scalable microservices based solutions, products and platforms adhering to the standards laid by Tesco.
• Simplify the architecture, choose the right programming language, database and streaming solution for the job at hand.
• Apply in-depth knowledge of multiple programming languages, associated frameworks and the tool ecosystem to create elegant solutions to problems.
• Focus on observability and metrics, security, design for simplicity and elegance but clean.
• Interact with peers and enterprise architecture team in shaping the overall architecture, standards and patterns.
• Model multiple domains, articulating contexts & boundaries and articulate the rationale behind them.
• Develop high quality code that can lead to rapid delivery. Ruthlessly pursuing continuous integration and delivery. Committing code early and often, with an understanding of version control & branching strategies.
• Implement infrastructure as code.
• Apply my understanding of elastic scale and build highly available systems.
• Follow the best practices of continuous BDD/TDD/Performance/Security/Smoke testing.
• Work effectively with my product stakeholders to communicate and translate their needs into improvements in my product.
• Lead group discussions on design within appropriate bounded context
• Support production systems, resolve incidents and perform root cause analysis.
• Debug/find complex problems and support/maintain the software solution.
• Share knowledge and influence with the wider engineering community.
• Mentor and develop those around me.
• Produce proof of concepts to evaluate new tools

Java Spring Microservices Kafka SQL and NoSQL DB

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