Software Engineer (Fullstack) - Fulfilment

Tesco Poland; Kraków; Hybrid; PLN 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Tesco Poland is seeking an experienced Java developer to join our store distribution engineering team. You will work on Java microservices, REST APIs, and modern front-end interfaces, with a DevOps lifecycle—from CI/CD to production.

You’ll influence architectural directions and help improve efficiency in Tesco’s fulfilment network. The role emphasizes performance, security, and scalable systems, with on-call rotation and collaborative teamwork across Agile practices.

Qualifications

• At least 4 years of experience developing with Java 11+.
• Experience with Agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban).
• Experience in test driven development.
• Experience designing and developing microservices/REST APIs.
• Good English communication skills.
• Readiness to take part in the on-call rotation.

Responsibilities

• Be a coder; review and contribute code.
• Proactively propose solutions.
• Work in the team – support and be supported in your team.
• Design: design, propose and review architecture design.
• Focus on performance, availability, reliability, and security.
• Lightweight and mobile-first progressive web applications by design.
• 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.

Skills

Java 11+

Agile (Scrum/Kanban)

Test-driven development

Microservices design

English communication

On-call rotation willingness

Tools

Azure

React exposure

Job description

As part of the store distribution engineering team, you will get the opportunity to work on the software applications and services that ensure our stores have the products our customers need. The work you do will improve the colleague experience in our depots and drive improved efficiencies to our extensive fulfilment network. And when it comes to ideas, we’re as ambitious as you are.

Our team is modernizing the technologies used to drive our fulfilment network and depot operations. There are two main areas of our work:

1. Supporting increased automation within our depots to make them more efficient.
2. Developing modern applications to support our colleagues drive better outcomes for the business.

Focusing on the automation area, you’ll play a key role in shaping the future of Tesco’s Autonomous Mobile Robot adoption in our fresh food depots. You’ll start by building the understanding and ownership of the existing solution, with the goal of improving the efficiency and user experience. All that while influencing the technical direction along the way.

On the technical side, we are developing Java microservices which are exposed via React applications and REST APIs. We use Kafka as a messaging backbone to provide strategic business analytics and insights via the Tesco Analytics Platform. We deploy our applications to AKS, virtual machines on premise or increasingly to an internal Kubernetes platform. We use Terraform to create our infrastructure as code.

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.
• Proactively propose solutions.
• Work in the team – support and be supported in your team.
• Design: design, propose and review architecture design.
• Focus on performance, availability, reliability, and security.
• lightweight & mobile-first progressive web applications by design.
• 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.

Must have:

• At least 4 years of experience developing with Java 11+
• Experience working with Agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban)
• Experience in test driven development
• Experience of designing and developing microservices / REST APIs
• Good English communication skills
• Readiness to take part in the on-call rotation

Nice to have skills:

• Experience with Azure, or other cloud solutions
• Exposure to React

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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