Software Development Manager

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.
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 Everyones 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.

Software Development Managers (SDMs) establish and sustain the environment for development and delivery operations to exist and succeed. Their primary focus is to hire retain guide and develop our Engineers (SDEs/SEs/SAs etc) through creating and aligning individual s objectives and development plan alongside the goals of the wider team and business. They evolve the right tailored approaches to manage and develop their Engineers including regular 1-2-1 meetings identifying mentors or mentees and providing impromptu coaching and feedback inputs getting right mentorship to grow expertise etc. SDMs help split the scope of work across one or more Engineers depending on their strengths and areas of improvement.

Apart for managerial skills we are looking for people who have a passion for Technology. You will demonstrate experience of different platforms and technologies. We expect to see some or all of the following:

Experience delivering complex mobile applications

8+ years of commercial software development experience in Kotlin/Java and/or Swift/Objective C

BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent

Firm understanding of software development principles capabilities and limitations of mobile platforms (iOS and Android)

Passion for mobile development. We would love to hear about apps you ve developed.

Understanding and exposure to integrating REST API endpoints

Strong experience and understanding of industry standard mobile accessibility

A desire to create readable maintainable modular and extendable code

Experience in full development life cycle; design coding test build QA deployment and maintenance

Exposure to the DevOps model

Experience in Lean and Agile environments and understanding of principles behind methodologies

Qualifications

Mobile Apps Development Team handling Leadership Product development Agile

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