Tesco Returnship Program: Software Development Engineering- Backend

Are you looking to return from a career break? Tesco Returnship Program is an initiative designed to support professionals re-enter the workforce post career break by offering 24-week paid internship opportunity, with a potential full-time employment upon successful completion on internship, depending on performance and feedback during the program. The Program will enable you to work on projects that match your expertise, interests and abilities.

You will be responsible for- Using in-depth knowledge of at least one major programming language; the framework and the tool ecosystem to implement end-to-end systems.

- Profiling and optimizing code.

- Producing test-driven features in a specific programming language and demonstrating you re comfortable with the TDD cycle.

- Applying understanding of cohesion and the SOLID principles to create well structured, maintainable software.

- Applying understanding of threads; the threading model and concurrent programming.

- Identifying patterns in code and refactoring the code towards them where it increases understanding and/or maintainability with minimal guidance.

- Translating requirements into tasks & code.

- Developing high-quality code that can lead to rapid delivery; ruthlessly pursuing continuous integration and delivery.

- Committing code early and often; demonstrating your understanding of version control & branching strategies.

- Automating everything by default.

- Writing secure code by default.

- Writing maintainable code and observing basic hygiene practices.

- Demonstrating the importance of domain model and coherently modeling a problem domain within a given context

- Implementing relevant project instrumentation.

- Following the best practices of BDD / TDD / Performance / Security / Smoke Testing.

- Working effectively with product stakeholders to communicate and translate their needs into improvements in your product.

- Participating in group discussions on the design of particular areas and understanding the domain well enough to work with Product Managers to drive value.

- Supporting production systems; resolving incidents and performing root cause analysis.

- Debugging/finding complex problems and supporting/maintaining the software solution.

- Producing proof of concepts to evaluate new tools.

Experience relevant for the job:

3+ years of experience as a Java backend developer.

Experience with SQL & NoSQL Databases would be good to have.

Experience scaling systems.

Experience with eCommerce would be a nice to have; but not necessary

Skills relevant for the job:

Written and verbal English communication skills.

Problem solving; analysis and computational skills.

Customer focus.

Innovative approach to problem solving