Hours: 36
Salary: Competitive
Location: London EC1R 5AR
United Kingdom
Apply by: 30/05/2021
London EC1R 5AR
The talented engineers in our Identity team build and maintain the APIs that identify customer accounts, as well as implementing new functionality (our Club Card Plus for example), with their mission being to know who you are when you interact with Tesco and do so in a way that is trust-building and secure. They are responsible for an extremely customer-tangible and high-traffic service, receiving between 800-900 million API calls per week!
The stack: Java, Kotlin, Cassandra, MySQL, Oracle, Azure, AWS, Apache Spark, and Kafka
We are responsible for the software throughout the lifecycle; we maintain a DevOps culture, employing continuous integration and delivery, supporting our code through to production and beyond, as well as being firm believers in TDD.
As a Software Development Manager, your primary responsibility is to build and maintain a passionate, engaged, and effective development team of engineers. You'll do this by taking a deep interest in the people that report to you, making sure they are happy, motivated, and challenged in what they are doing, guiding them to reach pragmatic technical solutions, and keep yourself close to the code (without becoming a blocker). You'll also take ownership when things go wrong but celebrate success collectively and, in short, act as a multiplier of your team’s effectiveness. Specifically, you will:
The role will include ownership of the on-call rota to support our applications in production.
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Our vision here at Tesco is to become every customers favourite way to shop, wherever they are and however they're shopping. We want our customers to be inspired by the solutions that we are building to help them find whatever they are looking for. Here’s how we’re doing it:
If that sounds exciting, then we'd love to hear from you.