Senior Software Engineer - Backend (Price Integrity & Insight)

Tesco Poland; Kraków; On-site; PLN 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Tesco Poland is seeking an experienced Software Engineer to join our Colleague Benefits domain. You will contribute to Java 21 services, focus on performance, security, and reliability, and help shape features for our enterprise APIs used across Tesco payroll systems.

With around 6+ years in the JVM ecosystem, you will lead implementations with minimal direction, collaborate across teams, and drive technical leadership while embracing Agile practices in a hybrid office/remote setup.

Qualifications

• Around 6+ years of experience as a Software Engineer within the JVM ecosystem.
• Experience working in Agile environments.
• Strong understanding of language and framework; good knowledge of underlying abstraction layer.
• Ability to translate business problems into technical strategy and lead implementation.
• Minimal directions and collaboration with SDEs across teams.
• Demonstrated technical leadership and ability to influence strategy.

Responsibilities

• Be a coder; review and contribute code.
• Focus on performance, availability, reliability, and security.
• Define features for services owned by your team.
• Effectively communicate progress to team, Manager, and Tesco colleagues.

Skills

Java

Spring

SQL

NoSQL

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

Maven/Gradle

JUnit/Mockito/Spock

RESTful services

Azure/OpenShift

Distributed systems

Tools

Splunk

New Relic

Azure

OpenShift

Git

Maven

Gradle

Job description

Colleague Benefits domain is a global best-in-class enterprise API which enables secure & easy access to colleague benefits data that is present across multiple Tesco payroll systems & countries.

We operate in a DevOps philosophy. We take responsibility for the software through its entire lifecycle.

We practice continuous integration, delivery, and support of our code through to production and beyond.

Whilst specific responsibilities will be dependent upon the changing needs of the Tesco business, the following provides an overview of the role’s key responsibilities and measures:

• Be a coder; review and contribute code.
• Focus on performance, availability, reliability, and security.
• Contribute to the definition of features for services owned by your team.
• Effectively communicate your and your team’s progress to your team members, your Manager, and wider Tesco colleagues.
• Around 6+ years of experience as a Software Engineer within the JVM ecosystem
• Working with Agile environment
• Demonstrate excellent understanding of language & framework and a good working knowledge of the abstraction layer underneath
• Take a business problem and come up with the technical strategy (push vs pull etc, real time vs batches, sync vs async) within the team, high level design and lead the implementation
• Need minimal directions or guidance and collaborate with SDEs across teams working on the same or similar business problem
• You showcase exemplary behaviour in your work – your design, delivery, code, processes all set examples for your team
• Influence your team’s technical and business strategy by suggesting novel approaches
• Able to communicate your ideas and get feedback from different stakeholders and drive convergence to achieve the right outcomes
• Continually propose and drive process improvements
• Help elaborate requirements where necessary
• Demostrated technical leadership

Technology:

• Java 21
• SQL and NoSQL DBs
• Splunk, New Relic
• Microsoft Azure, OpenShift
• RESTful web services
• Some web applications framework knowledge (Spring preferred)
• Docker and Kubernetes
• Microservices and Distributed Systems
• Testing tools (i.e JUnit / Spock / Mockito / WireMock)
• Git, Maven and/or Gradle, other CI/CD tooling (GH Actions or equivalent)

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.

Tesco is committed to celebrating diversity and everyone is welcome at Tesco. As a Disability Confident Employer, we’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process, allowing candidates the opportunity to thrive and inform us of any reasonable adjustments they may require.

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What our colleagues like the most at Tesco:

• We develop our own products
• We make an impact; large scale of operation
• Accountability and respect are given to us
• We cooperate and support each other
• There are great colleagues who are divided into small teams here
• We can develop and learn new things

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