Software Development Engineer III - Customer Fulfilment

About the role

We are in the process of building and
rolling out our next generation, dynamic, scalable, and resilient Fulfilment
platform for Tesco, to address both manual, and robotic powered automate
fulfilment operations, across all the customer order fulfilment locations. This
highly optimized and continuously improving fulfilment platform is designed to
be used to fulfil all product categories - Grocery /GM and Fashion, of Customer
Orders.

This platform, Fulfilment Point
System (FPS), enables all the customer order fulfilment centres across different
geographies to pick, marshal and dispatch customer orders on one hand and
manage the site workflow through a real-time visualisation and intervention
tool, on the other hand.

Ours is a globally distributed, full
stack java tech team and our building blocks consist of a set of Microservice components,
backend APIs, Rich UI, robust Eventing Platform and Data layer components
utilising a wide range of modern technologies including:

• Java, RxJava, SpringBoot
• Kafka, PostgreSQL and Couchbase
• Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Azure
  DevOps, Splunk, AppDynamics, New Relic
• Azure Cloud

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.

You will be responsible for

We are seeking highly skilled Software
Development Engineers (SDEs) for a green field project to drive the design,
development and implementation of software solution for next generation customer
fulfilment system. As a key member of our engineering team, you will develop robust,
scalable and efficient java-based applications to optimise warehouse operations
and drive operational success. You will directly contribute to evolving
product, reducing cost and increasing profitability.

Design and Develop: Architect and
build high-performance applications.

System Optimisation: Collaborate with
cross functional teams to enhance system efficiency, scalability and reliability
for mission critical applications.

Integration: Develop APIs and
microservices to integrated with enterprise API and third-party platforms.

Code Quality: Write clean,
maintainable and well documented code, adhere to best practices and coding
standards.

Troubleshooting: Diagnose and resolve
complex technical issues in real-time to ensure un-interrupted operations.

Mentorship: guide junior engineers and foster culture of
continuous improvement.

Innovation & Collaboration: Stay ahead of
industry, work closely with hardware, data scientists and operation team.

You will need

Experience
relevant for this job:

• Previous experience of having done
  product development using agile methodologies
• Hands-on experience of building and
  supporting reliable and operationally robust full stack and distributed Java
  applications / products
• Any previous experience of having contributed
  in a globally distributed software engineering teams would be a big plus.

Tech
Skills

• Programming
  
• • Demonstrate
    in depth knowledge of IDE, language, and toolset in language of choice.
  • Implement
    critical path components in a large or complex or project.
  • Demonstrate
    excellent understanding of language & framework and a good working
    knowledge of the abstraction layer underneath
  • Comfortably
    test drive any feature/comfortable with TDD cycle
  • Comfortably
    debug/find complex problems
• Design
  
  • Identify
    and apply appropriate design patterns to problems
  • Understand
    Idempotence
  • Actively
    practice the boy scout principle, leaves design, code in a better state than
    when arrived
  • Understand
    importance of domain model and can coherently model a problem domain within a
    given context
  • Understand
    design patterns such as CQRS and eventual consist
  • Understand
    how to design for performance at all levels
• Development
  Practice
  • Automate
    everything by default
  • Build
    a CI/CD pipeline
• Tech
  Stack Specialization
  • Java,
    Spring boot
  • Kafka
  • Postgres
  • Couchbase
  • CI/CD:
    Azure pipelines / Git Actions.
  • Cloud:
    Azure

Whats in it for you?
We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we make sure our Tesco colleague benefits package takes care of you – both in and out of work. Click Here to find out more!
 

• Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary.


• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays).


• Private medical insurance.


• 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (12 months service required at the qualifying date) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave.


• Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing.


• This information is a shortened summary, refer to our policies for full details.

 
About Us
You might know us as a supermarket, technology company or even for our award-winning mobile network. Truth is, we’re all of those things, and much more. Our colleagues work with one goal in mind, helping to make every day a little better for our customers, colleagues and communities all over the world. No two customers are the same, neither are our colleagues. 
 
At Tesco, we champion a balance that lets you thrive both in and out of work. Spend 60% of your week collaborating with colleagues at our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely. Whether you're just kicking off your career, juggling passions, or navigating big life events, we're here to support you. We always welcome a conversation about flexible working, so talk to us throughout your application about how we can support. 
 
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