Software Development Engineer II

Tesco Bengaluru

We are a multi-disciplinary team creating a sustainable competitive advantage for Tesco by standardising processes, delivering cost savings, enabling agility, providing cutting-edge technological solutions and empowering our colleagues to do ever more for our customers. With cross-functional expertise in Global Business Services and Retail Technology & Engineering, a wide network of teams and strong governance we reduce complexity thereby offering high quality services for our customers. Tesco Bengaluru, established in 2004 to enable standardisation and build centralised capabilities and competencies, makes the experience better for our millions of customers worldwide and simpler for over 4,40,000 colleagues.

At Tesco Business Solutions, we have a mission to simplify, scale & partner to serve our customers, colleagues and suppliers through a best-in-class intelligent Business Services model. We do this by building a world class business services model by executing services model framework right at the heart of everything we do for our worldwide customers. The key objective is to implement and execute service model across all our functions and markets consistently. The ethos of business services is to free-up our colleagues from a regular manual operational work. We use cognitive technology to augment our key decision making. We also built a Continuous Improvement (CI) culture across functions to drive bottom-up business efficiencies by optimising processes. Business services colleagues need to act as a business partner with our group stakeholders to build a collaborative partnership driving continuous improvement across markets and functions to lead the best customer experience by serving our shoppers a little better every day.

At Tesco, inclusion means that Everyone's Welcome. Everyone is treated fairly and with respect; by valuing individuality and uniqueness we create a sense of belonging.

Diversity and inclusion have always been at the heart of Tesco. It is embedded in our values: we treat people how they want to be treated. We always want our colleagues to feel they can be themselves at work and we are committed to helping them be at their best.

Across the Tesco group we are building an inclusive workplace, a place to actively celebrate the cultures, personalities and preferences of our colleagues, who in turn help to build the success of our business and reflect the diversity of the communities we serve.

Important Notice: 

On behalf of Tesco Bengaluru, we must caution all job seekers and educational institutions that Tesco Bengaluru does not authorise any third parties to release employment offers or conduct recruitment drives via a third party. Hence, beware of inauthentic and fraudulent job offers or recruitment drives from any individuals or websites purporting to represent Tesco. Further, Tesco Bengaluru does not charge any fee or other emoluments for any reason (including without limitation, visa fees) or seek compensation from educational institutions to participate in recruitment events. 

Accordingly, please check the authenticity of any such offers before acting on them and where acted upon, you do so at your own risk. Tesco Bengaluru shall neither be responsible for honouring or making good the promises made by fraudulent third parties, nor for any monetary or any other loss incurred by the aggrieved individual or educational institution. 

In the event that you come across any fraudulent activities in the name of Tesco Bengaluru, please feel free report the incident at recruitment_compliance_india@tesco.com 

We design and build the systems and processes that allow our colleagues to run; deploy and orchestrate application/containers for our customers. We cover the entire lifecycle of platform development and container orchestration; where we aim to provide a stable edge computing platform for running multiple applications in the store that serves our colleagues and customer. Delivering this involves multiple engineering products that are part of Tesco’s Retail Store Platform; built using Kubernetes; Kubernetes Operator ; Micro-Services; Cloud components; Store Serve and Store infrastructure 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 management of edge computing devices and managed through a platform that enhances interaction between multiple application and enable efficient resource management and container orchestration. We use hybrid approach with deployments across public cloud and in-store infrastructure cloud that spread out to thousands of stores and regions. 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 and responsible for the development and support. 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 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

Programming/Coding
Demonstrate in depth knowledge of Go Lang; and development toolset
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 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 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
Development Practice
Build a CI/CD pipeline
Automate security scanning and performance testing as part of build infrastructure
Demonstrate a good grasp of Linux operating systems
Demonstrate a good grasp of scripting techniques
Demonstrate expertise in at least one 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 Qualifications
Go lang; Docker; Kubernetes; Unix OS and Shell scripting; CI/CD pipeline; Chef; Azure Cloud
Additional Information
Experience: Minimum 5+ Years