Software Development Engineer III

As a Software Development Engineer 3 you are in a senior Individual Contributor engineering role at Tesco. Your proficiency with foundational computer science and software engineering concepts is taken as a given, and you will have proven significant technical depth and breadth. At this level you will be playing an active role in technical leadership, with proven impact across teams and the wider directorate. You take ownership and accountability of the development of the products in your domain. You participate in activities that build capability across the organisation, coaching and mentoring of existing colleagues.

Following our Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence and have these specific risk responsibilities:

I provide perspective and context for technology choices across my directorate. The work that I do has foundational impact across teams in my area and the directorate that I am a member of. I am a technical leader for my teams and others will regularly come to me for mentorship and support. I am comfortable both supporting other engineers in their delivery and taking the lead on key features as appropriate. I have delivered multiple projects that move the needle for the business. I have demonstrated technical breadth and depth; I am an expert in my domain. At this level I display a high degree of ownership for the work conducted by the team. I am accountable for the quality of every result, produced by individuals and teams. I am an advocate of best practices across my directorate. I build maturity in the way we develop, deliver and operate services. I ensure that we re learning from the best in the industry, designing and implementing appropriate testing and deployment strategies. I can anticipate feature evolution of my product. I utilise this when facilitating design sessions to ensure that the system architecture evolves to support future requirements. I understand the wider Tesco architectural strategy and champion its application to the systems that I work on. At this level my job starts to become just as much about exercising technical judgment as it does about implementation. I am comfortable managing competing priorities and am able to bring order to ambiguous scenarios. I create optimal outcomes combining short-term and long-term goals, utilising data driven decision making techniques to take appropriate trade-offs. I can identify risks and proactively engage with product and programme managers. I am a strong communicator within my team and to my stakeholders. I am a trusted mentor, a role-model for more junior engineers. I am approachable and am frequently asked to mentor those around me. I prioritise sharing skills and technical knowledge across the directorate, both informally in 1:1 discussions and by arranging more formal training opportunities.

Programming

System Design

Development Practise

Infrastructure

Software Security

Operations and Maintenance

Core Technology

Development Lifecycle

Product Methodologies

Retail Technology Awareness

Communication & Influencing

Data Analytics & Insights

Strategic Thinking & Problem Solving

Finance & Procurement

Curiosity & Learning

Embracing and Enabling Change

Primary Skills: JS, Typescript, NodeJS, Express, NoSql (Couchbase), Cache, Dockers, kafka

Secondary React, Redux/Relay, Graphql, Webpack

Successfully had impact on teams of teams.

Demonstrated experience designing, developing and running highly-scalable distributed systems.

Experience implementing a range of design and architecture patterns.

Experience of technical leadership within a team. Coaching, supporting and mentoring those around me.