Software Development Engineer III

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 Everyone?s 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.

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My impact reaches beyond my immediate team, and I provide perspective and context for technology choices across my directorate. The work that I do has foundational impact across teams in my area and the directorate that I am a member of. I am a technical leader for my teams and others will regularly come to me for mentorship and support. I am comfortable both supporting other engineers in their delivery and taking the lead on key features as appropriate. I have delivered multiple projects that move the needle for the business. I have demonstrated technical breadth and depth; I am an expert in my domain. At this level I display a high degree of ownership for the work conducted by the team. I am accountable for the quality of every result, produced by individuals and teams. I am an advocate of best practices across my directorate. I build maturity in the way we develop, deliver and operate services. I ensure that we’re learning from the best in the industry, designing and implementing appropriate testing and deployment strategies. I can anticipate feature evolution of my product. I utilise this when facilitating design sessions to ensure that the system architecture evolves to support future requirements. I understand the wider Tesco architectural strategy and champion its application to the systems that I work on. At this level my job starts to become just as much about exercising technical judgment as it does about implementation. I am comfortable managing competing priorities and am able to bring order to ambiguous scenarios. I create optimal outcomes combining short-term and long-term goals, utilising data driven decision making techniques to take appropriate trade-offs. I can identify risks and proactively engage with product and programme managers. I am a strong communicator within my team and to my stakeholders. I am a trusted mentor, a role-model for more junior engineers. I am approachable and am frequently asked to mentor those around me. I prioritise sharing skills and technical knowledge across the directorate, both informally in 1:1 discussions and by arranging more formal training opportunities. I build capability and raise the bar by contributing to hiring and interviewing practices. I regularly participate in recruitment assessments. Externally I represent the best of Tesco Technology to attract new talent and encourage interest in our organisation.

 

Job description 

Ideal candidates will be software engineering experts with proven credentials building and leading world class engineering teams. Ideally they will have a Bachelor’s degree equivalent in Computer Science or an Engineering/Science related discipline. 

  

Bachelors/Masters in Engineering. 

· 12-18 years of strong technical engineering leadership with at least 7 years of experience in developing mobile applications using Android/IOS using Java,Swift, Objective Cetc. 

· Hands on knowledge of Mobile platforms – IOS, Android. 

· Superior strategic planning and technology skills with a hands-on execution style 

· Deep knowledge of Mobility and its peripheral systems 

 
Programming: 
In depth knowledge of IDE, language and toolset in language of choice. 
Excellent understanding of language & framework and a good working knowledge of the abstraction layer underneath 
Understanding of threads, threading model and concurrent programming 
Can profile and optimize code 
Good knowledge of other programming languages & paradigms and when to apply them 
Comfortable debugging/finding complex problems 

 
Design: 
Can identify and apply appropriate design patterns to problems. 
Comfortable developing large features 
Understands Idempotence 
Understands boy scout principle. Leaves code in a better state then when arrived 
Good understanding of cohesion, SOLID and how to apply 
Writes clean, maintainable code 
Understands importance of domain model and can coherently model a problem domain within a given context 
Anticipates medium term (3-6 month) vectors of change and designs and abstracts accordingly 
Understands & appreciates simplicity & the value of removing code 
Understands design patterns such as CQRS and eventual consistency 
Understands how to design for performance at all levels 

 
Development Practice: 
Automates everything by default 
Can build a CD pipeline 
Automates security scanning and performance testing as part of build 
 

Infrastructure: 
Good grasp of multiple operating systems 
Good grasp of scripting techniques 
Expertise in one database & good grasp of multiple data storage paradigms and when to apply other technologies 
Understands and can automate paas technologies 
Understands when to apply appropriate infrastructure technologies. 
 

Security: 
Writes Secure code by default 
Can use tools (nmap/metasploit etc.) to perform deep security probes 
Understands server hardening 

 
Impact & Value: 
Consistently leads delivery of valuable features 
Continually looking for process improvements 
Proposes new ways of doing things 
Suggests novel ways to fulfil requirements 
Helps elaborate requirements where necessary 

 

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