Software Development Engineer -Backend

Tesco Bengaluru : We are a multi-disciplinary team creating a sustainable competitive advantage for Tesco by standardizing processes, delivering cost savings, enabling agility, providing cutting-edge technological solutions and empowering our colleagues to do ever more for our customers.

Tesco Technology consists of people from a number of different backgrounds but having a common purpose to serve our shoppers a little better every day with our retail technological solutions. We shared a common interest in harnessing innovations in technology to enhance their shopping experience at Tesco stores. Whether making products, software or systems, our teams focuses on various aspects from taking strategic ownership of the architecture to delivering technological solutions such as design, testing, deployment, infrastructure, operation and security of the systems to ensure agile, smooth and safe operations. These help us to deliver the maximum business impact. Teams refine their internal processes to best fit their own needs, working to build core capabilities in application and services. We collaborate globally across teams to build end-to-end customer-facing solutions, as well as to share knowledge, experience, tools and techniques.

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.

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:

4+ years of experience as a Java backend developer.

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

Experience of cloud platforms (e.g. AWS/Azure).

Experience scaling systems.

Experience working with multiple software development methodologies including Scrum & Kanban.

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