Software Development Engineer II

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