Backend SDE II — Real-Time Data & Event-Driven Systems

Tesco Technology; Welwyn Garden City; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus up to 20%

Private medical insurance

Maternity & adoption leave

Private GP and EAP

Flexible working

Job summary

Tesco Technology is seeking a Software Development Engineer II to join the Behavioural Data Platform team in Welwyn Garden City. You will design and build high-performance event-driven services in Java with Spring Boot, delivering personalised experiences at scale while collaborating with more senior engineers.

You will gain hands-on experience with Kafka, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and observability tools, contributing to distributed systems and production readiness in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Solid Java backend development experience
• Experience building event-driven services and/or REST APIs
• Willingness to learn and collaborate in a team
• Strong communication skills and engagement in planning sessions

Responsibilities

• Develop backend features for a Java/Spring Boot event-driven platform
• Collaborate with senior engineers to design, implement, test and ship code
• Use observability tools to monitor live systems
• Write automated tests to ensure code correctness
• Review code and contribute to development best practices
• Develop understanding of distributed systems and data processing at scale

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Event-driven design

REST APIs

Kubernetes

Kafka

CI/CD

Observability

Distributed systems

Tools

Git

CI/CD pipelines

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Tesco Technology is seeking a Software Development Engineer II to join the Behavioural Data Platform team in Welwyn Garden City. You will design and build high-performance event-driven services in Java with Spring Boot, delivering personalised experiences at scale while collaborating with more senior engineers.

You will gain hands-on experience with Kafka, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and observability tools, contributing to distributed systems and production readiness in a fast-paced environment.