Software Development Engineer II - Customer Fulfilment

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 automated
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, GitHub Actions, Splunk, New Relic
• Azure Cloud

We are responsible for the software
throughout the lifecycle. We follow a strong DevOps culture, owning services
end-to-end from development through to production support.

We’re looking for a Backend Engineer
(SDE2) with strong experience in building scalable, distributed Java systems.
This is a mid-level individual contributor role where you’ll work on meaningful
backend features, support others, and develop your technical leadership skills.

As a key member of our engineering
team, you will develop robust, scalable and efficient backend services to
optimise fulfilment operations and drive operational success.

Backend Development: Build scalable,
resilient Java-based backend services, APIs, and microservices to support
fulfilment workflows and systems.

Feature Delivery: Implement and
ship end-to-end stories, primarily focused on frontend with some backend
integration.

Technical
Contribution: Take ownership of medium-sized features and
participate in their design and delivery.

Collaboration: Work closely with
engineers, product managers, and stakeholders to understand problems and
propose solutions.

Code Quality: Write clean,
maintainable code and contribute to peer reviews to raise the team’s quality
bar.

Support &
Mentorship: Help onboard junior engineers and share knowledge
across the team.

Continuous
Improvement: Apply best practices and contribute to improving
development processes and standards.

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 distributed Java applications /
  products
• Any previous experience of having contributed
  in a globally distributed software engineering teams would be a big plus.

Tech
Skills

• Relevant
  Experience
• Demonstrated
  impact across a software engineering team.
• Experience
  designing, developing and operating backend components or services

o   Development
Practice

o   Infrastructure

o   Software Security

o   Operations and
Maintenance

o   Development
Lifecycle

o   Strategic Thinking
& Problem Solving

o   Curiosity &
Learning

o   Embracing and
Enabling Change

• 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.