Applications are invited for the role of Software Engineer III at TESCO. Apply by April 7

About TESCO

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.

About the Job

  • 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

Responsibilities

  • Programming
  • Demonstrate in depth knowledge of IDE; language and toolset in language of choice. (Java; Spring; Javascript; React; Redux; Node JS)
  • 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
  • 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

Requirements

  • 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 consistency
  • 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

How to Apply

Interested candidates can apply through this link.

Click here to view the official notification of the role of Software Engineer III at TESCO.