Hours: 36
Salary: Competitive
Location: Welwyn Garden City AL7 1GA
United Kingdom
Apply by: 30/09/2021
Welwyn Garden City AL7 1GA
Price Service is a HTTP API handling pricing and promotions across all of Tesco’s channels and is of central importance to Tesco’s strategic plans to better serve 28 million shoppers each week in the UK, and more around the globe. The impact of the team’s work is visible through Tesco's tills, websites and mobile apps - it is rare to find a job with this level of challenge and impact. The API is being built for consumption on the open internet to enable future innovation in the wider world, so the team has to tackle hard distributed systems problems at scale to ensure high availability and performance. CAP theorem is a regular and very practical topic of conversation within the team!
The service is built with Java, Vert.x, RxJava, Groovy, Couchbase and Kafka, among other technologies. It runs on AWS & Azure with fully automated testing in a continuous deployment pipeline. The team works according to Agile principles, adapting Kanban and other techniques as appropriate to succeed.
The team is humble , supportive of each other and highly collaborative both internally and with other teams, with pairing a common occurrence and all code is reviewed via Github.
Principal Software Development Engineer are the creative minds developing the software applications that make life easier for customers. They lead the entire development and support process for a software program with an API-first and DevOps attitude. They produce high quality working software that adds value to our customers, their applications improving the simplicity of tasks with the impact ranging from saving time, effort or money to re-defining normal.
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We offer excellent benefits that help make Tesco a great place to work. These include but aren’t limited to:
Our vision here at Tesco is to become every customer's 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: We are building systems to solve real-world problems at scale, impacting tens of millions of people Teams of great Engineers (and Managers and Product Managers) to learn from. We are agile and enlightened in our approach to building software and teams. There’s a great atmosphere and we work sustainably as a team Tesco has a “do the right thing” mentality.
We are proud to have an inclusive culture at Tesco where everyone is welcome and truly feels able to be themselves. At Tesco, we not only celebrate diversity but recognise the value and opportunity it brings to enable us to serve our shoppers a little better every day. We strive to create a workforce that reflects our customers not only here in the UK, but worldwide. Our aim is to attract and welcome a diverse range of applicants from all walks of life, offering many varying working patterns across our business, and we would love to hear from you!