Senior Software Engineer - Developer Platform

About the role

At Tesco, we believe in the power of spending more time together, face to face, than apart. So, 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 also recognise that life looks a little different for each of us. Some people are at the start of their careers, some want the freedom to do the things they love. Others are going through life-changing moments like becoming a carer, nearing retirement, adapting to parenthood, or something else. That’s why at Tesco, we always welcome a conversation about flexible working. So, talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.

The Engineering Effectiveness organisation within Technology exists to make the work of over 2,000 Tesco software engineers as frictionless and delightful as possible. We enable fast access to information and context; provide valuable and useful platforms and abstractions and reduce toil. We make 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. We are customer focussed and data-led and focus on solving the most valuable problems. We don’t build things that teams don't want or need. We hold ourselves to a high standard of engineering, taking pride in the solutions we develop.

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. It will provide a golden path, allowing automated build and deployment of software artefacts, driving improved quality, security and standardisation. The Developer Platform will consist of various tools and technologies that integrate seamlessly to provide a pipeline to production, lowering cognitive load, toil and repetitive manual work from development teams and helping to build, deploy and release software faster with improved security and observability. The TDP team builds, runs and maintains the platform.

• to support your mental wellbeing 

You will be responsible for

• Provide ownership and leadership in developing TDP, aware of the short and longterm 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 tothe raising the quality bar of TDP codebase,
• Participate in various design and planning sessions and ensure that TDP is builtwith quality, scale and resiliency for future requirements.
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• Bring in the change mindset and collaborate with peers and stakeholders withinand outside directorate.
• Provide the necessary ownership on resolution of production issues, drive the operational excellence.

This role will give you an opportunity to enhance your platform engineering skills, you will get hands-on experience with building a platform from ground-up, develop standards, gain experience with cloud native technologies etc. You will also have the opportunity to participate in the wider community within Engineering Effectiveness, broader technology teams, learn and share.

You will need

• Experience with Java 8+
• Experience with golang is considered a plus
• Experience with cloud platform(s) (e.g. Azure, etc.)
• Experience with both SQL/NoSQL databases
• Experience with Infra as a Code processes and practices
• Experience scaling systems.
• Experience with CICD Tools and processes
• Experience working with modern software development methodologies, such as, Kanban
• Experience with commit-to-production is considered a plus