Software Dev Engineer III

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.

Software Development Engineers (SDEs) are the creative minds developing the software applications that make life easier for customers. Responsible 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

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
• Influence your team’s technical and business strategy by suggesting novel approaches
• Able to communicate your ideas and get feedback from different stakeholders and drive convergence to achieve the right outcomes
• Proactively mentor the rest of the team and help in hiring
• Ensure design or architectural deficiencies are addressed and routinely simplify integration of your peer teams with your team’s software
• Consistently lead delivery of valuable features
• Continually propose and drive process improvements
• Help elaborate requirements where necessary

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
• Profile and optimise code o Understand threads, threading model and concurrent programming
• Comfortably test drive any feature/comfortable with TDD cycle
• Demonstrate a good knowledge of other programming languages & paradigms and when to apply them
• Comfortably debug/find complex problems

Design

• Identify and apply appropriate design patterns to problems
• Comfortably develop large features
• Understand Idempotence
•  Actively practice the boy scout principle, leaves design, code in a better state than when arrived
• Demonstrate a good understanding of cohesion, SOLID and how to apply
• Understand importance of domain model and can coherently model a problem domain within a given context
•  Anticipate medium term (3-6 month) vectors of change and designs and abstracts accordingly
• Understand and appreciate simplicity and the value of removing code
• Understand design patterns such as CQRS and eventual consist
• Understand how to design for performance at all levels

Development Practice

• Automate everything by default
• Build a CI/CD pipeline
• Automate security scanning and performance testing as part of build

Infrastructure

• Demonstrate a good grasp of multiple operating systems
• Demonstrate a good grasp of scripting techniques
• Demonstrate expertise in one database & good grasp of multiple data storage paradigms and when to apply other technologies
• Understand and can automate PaaS technologies
• Understand when to apply appropriate infrastructure technologies

Security

• Write secure code by default
• Use tools to perform deep security probes
• Understand server hardening

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