Senior Software Engineer

• Be a coder; review and contribute code.
• Focus on performance, availability, reliability, and security.
• Contribute to the definition of features for services owned by your team.
• Effectively communicate your and your team’s progress to your Team Members, Manager, and wider Tesco colleagues.

Key requirements:

• Around 6+ years of experience as a Software Engineer within the JVM ecosystem
• Working with Agile environment
• Excellent understanding of language & framework and good working knowledge of the abstraction layer underneath
• Take a business problem and come up with technical strategy (push vs pull etc, real time vs batches, sync vs async), high level design and lead implementation
• Need minimal direction and collaborate with SDEs across teams
• Showcase exemplary behaviour in design, delivery, code, processes
• Influence technical and business strategy by suggesting novel approaches
• Able to communicate ideas and get feedback from different stakeholders, drive convergence
• Continually propose and drive process improvements
• Help elaborate requirements where necessary
• Demonstrated technical leadership
• Java 21
• SQL and NoSQL DBs
• Splunk, New Relic
• Microsoft Azure, OpenShift
• RESTful web services
• Web application framework knowledge (Spring preferred)
• Docker and Kubernetes
• Microservices and Distributed Systems
• Testing tools (JUnit / Spock / Mockito / WireMock)
• Git, Maven and/or Gradle, other CI/CD tooling (GH Actions or equivalent)