Software Development Engineer II

About the role We design and build a scalable messaging platform that enables seamless event flow across various domains of our retail platform and its components. Our team owns the end-to-end lifecycle of the platform, including architecture, development, deployment, and operational stability. Our objective is to provide a reliable and resilient messaging backbone that connects systems and transforms both incoming and outgoing events efficiently at scale. Delivering this capability involves multiple engineering products and link with Tesco’s Retail Platform. This platform is built using Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, Couchbase, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, Microservices Architecture, and Azure cloud components.

You will be responsible for As an engineering organisation, we have strong emphasis on open-source tools and technologies. We work on exciting opportunities that simplifies the management of Messaging integration Platform and managed through a platform that enhances interaction between multiple Tesco Retail Platform domains and enable efficient messaging integration. 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 our end users. Responsible for the 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

• You showcase exemplary behaviour in your work - Collaborate with SDEs across teams working on the same or similar business problem- Influence your team’s technical and business by suggesting novel approaches- Able to communicate your ideas and get feedback from different stakeholders- Ensure design deficiencies are addressed- Consistently delivery of valuable features- Continually propose and drive process improvements- Help elaborate requirements where necessary

You will need Programming/Coding- Demonstrate in depth knowledge of Java, Spring and development toolset- Implement critical path components in a large or complex project.- Demonstrate excellent understanding of language & framework and a good working knowledge of the abstraction layer underneath- Profile and optimise code and Understand threads; threading model and concurrent programming- Comfortably test drive any feature/comfortable with TDD cycle- Demonstrate a good knowledge of programming languages & paradigms and when to apply them- Comfortably debug/find complex problems

Design- Identify and apply appropriate design patterns to problems; 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 principal and how to apply- Understand importance of domain model and can coherently model a problem domain within a given context- Anticipate medium term (3-4 month) vectors of change and designs and abstracts accordingly- Understand and appreciate simplicity and the value of removing code

Development Practice- Build a CI/CD pipeline- Automate security scanning and performance testing as part of build infrastructure- Demonstrate a good grasp of messaging technology like Kafka- Demonstrate expertise in at least one No SQL database- Understand when to apply appropriate infrastructure technologies

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

Tech QualificationsJava; Spring; Kafka; Docker; Kubernetes; Scripting; CI/CD pipeline; Github, IDE with AI tools

Additional InformationExperience: 6+ Years Minimum

Whats in it for you?

At Tesco, we are committed to providing the best for you. 

 

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