Software Development Manager (Mobile Android & iOS)

Tesco Business Solution and Tesco Technology were established in Budapest in 2019, supporting the Tesco retail business in Central Europe and the Tesco Group. TBST and Tesco Technology are part of our global business services and technology organisations within Tesco.

In the UK, Ireland, India, Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic we operate to offer great value to our customers every day.

In Budapest, our Technology hub currently employs more than 200 – and a growing number – of highly trained software engineers and managers who are implementing global software development projects across fulfilment, supplier and product management, online and in-store loss prevention, and our online grocery sites.

Our goal is to bring significant changes to the market by using the latest technologies. We are focusing on a large variety of modern technologies from the backend space and frontend to UX, UI and even data science and engineering.

We are aiming to drive business value through innovation and to create an organization that fundamentally transforms the retail environment.

We put accountability and ownership on the individuals and their teams in order to run a horizontal organization where teamwork is extremely important. With an end-to-end approach, we offer our colleagues opportunities for self-development and career growth.

Our colleagues are the key to our success at Tesco. We foster an environment of openness and collaboration. We draw from the diversity, knowledge and experience of our colleagues. It is all about equal opportunities, no matter who you are, or where you come from, you can get on at Tesco.

Our teams consist of individuals who can truly make a difference. Focussing on building a world-class business services centre alongside cutting-edge technology capability, they are working towards our goal of serving our customers and colleagues a little better every day.

We are expanding our operations locally and we are looking for the best talent.

Let’s {code} the together at {Tesco Technology}!

Tesco is a diverse and exciting employer, dedicated to being #aplacetogeton, providing career-defining opportunities to all of our colleagues. If you chose to join our business, we will provide you with:

• Permanent contract from the go – as a sign of our trust in your abilities
• Yearly salary bonus – based on both individual and business performance
• Extensive private healthcare - complex care package including a wide range of specialists, medical services, and free flu vaccination
• Cafeteria 
• Relocation Help - professional service to secure relevant working permits and other necessary documents
• Learning opportunities - certified technical training and learning platforms like Udemy, Pluralsight, and O'Reilly
• Referral Bonus
• Learning culture and excellent opportunities to develop your career within your chosen field or something altogether new
• Varied and exciting projects to play a part in – there is always something new and exciting in the pipeline

If that sounds exciting, then we'd love to hear from you.

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As a Mobile Software Development Manager, you’ll be leading an agile team of industry-leading engineers upon Tesco’s customer-facing Android and iOS applications. You will be responsible for the future direction of the products that we build, solving problems, encouraging your team and developing new features through quality, scalable, performant and maintainable technical solutions. The solutions that you and your team will be responsible for will have a global reach, impacting millions of customers.

You’ll be a passionate, pragmatic Mobile Software Development Manager with an inquisitive mind who builds and motivates their team to make change for the better and most importantly put our customers first. Comfortable with modern engineering practices and mobile development tooling and technologies you’ll use innovation to improve the customer experience and efficiency of your engineering team.

What will you do?

You will be working on the Tesco UK mobile application to implement the capabilities to improvise and personalise customer experience and ease of use in the store. In this team we use the latest technologies (SwiftUI on iOS and Kotlin on Android), working with a GraphQL backend (maintained by another team). This squad of 5 will have both Android and iOS developers and you will work closely with our other native development and platform teams to deliver a high-quality product.

• Whilst specific responsibilities will be dependent upon the changing needs of the Tesco business, the following provides an overview of the role’s key responsibilities and measures:
• Experience leading mobile engineering teams and architecting complex mobile applications
• Adopt best practices in software engineering: design, testing, version control, documentation, build, deployment, monitoring and operations. Build flexible systems choosing simple, straightforward solutions over more complex ones
• Drive innovation and continuous improvement in technology and methodologies to continuously increase productivity and ensure that technology standards and best practices are maintained across each area of focus
• Drive the planning and allocation for the development of the defined technology roadmap and develop, implement and maintain a disaster recovery plan
• Take a data driven approach to engineering where all initiatives have metrics to help drive progress and determine success
• Monitor security of a dedicated area and continue to upgrade it; monitor application performance and review any application failures
• Manage and lead the team in challenging and pushing the boundaries of innovation and technology
• Anticipate and react to major technology changes to ensure the maintenance of company leadership in the competitive landscape, ensuring that Tesco is regarded as a leader and innovator in its field
• Establish technical standards and ensure adherence to them for product development and company operations
• Identify and evaluate new technology platforms that would help the Tesco achieve its objectives
• Ensure customer experience is 24/7 at optimum levels due to relentless tuning and performance improvement in the production platforms
• Participate in the development of the long-term development and business technology strategies including participation in decisions involving in-house vs. outsource and nearshore vs. far shore providers as well as build vs. partner vs. buy decisions on new products/functionality

and relevant experience for this job

• Experience managing mobile engineering teams of 6+ developers
• Hands on Engineer and have shown the scale of developing website in true agile approach. Have worked with Advance Mobile Development technologies and successfully scaled the product to millions of users. Kotlin and SwiftUI.
• Depth of professional software engineering experience and best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Awareness of current technology standards, industry trends, emerging technologies, and software development best practices
• Full-Stack, hands on expertise in many disparate technologies, typically ranging from front-end user interfaces through to back-end systems and all points in between
• Strong background in distributed systems and ‘web scale' computing
• Knowledge and experience of cloud technologies, modern software languages including fluency in at least 1 modern programming language (Java, C++, Ruby, etc.)
• Experience with data stores (both relational and non-relational); distributed systems and event driven service-oriented architectures and knowledge of best practice in secure coding principle
• Proven track record in managing teams of software engineers through the full agile product development lifecycle whilst improving their skills and developing the teams
• Ability to handle multiple and competing priorities within a fast-paced environment
• Experience of running and supporting software in production
• Understanding of working in a matrix organization and owning all operational metrics and support
• Hands-on technical expertise of developing and managing well engineered solutions