Senior Software Development Engineer – Service Communication & Security

Tesco Business Services & Technology (TBST) and Tesco Technology were established in Budapest in 2019, supporting the Tesco retail business in Central Europe and the Tesco Group. TBST and Tesco Technology are part of our global business services and technology organisations within Tesco.

In the UK, Ireland, India, Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic we operate to offer great value to our customers every day.

In Budapest, our Technology hub currently employs near 100 – and a growing number – of highly trained software engineers and managers who are implementing global software development projects across fulfilment, supplier and product management, online and in-store loss prevention, and our online grocery sites.

Our goal is to bring significant changes to the market by using the latest technologies. We are focusing on a large variety of modern technologies from the backend space and frontend to UX, UI and even data science and engineering.

We are aiming to drive business value through innovation and to create an organization that fundamentally transforms the retail environment.

We put accountability and ownership on the individuals and their teams in order to run a horizontal organization where teamwork is extremely important. With an end-to-end approach, we offer our colleagues opportunities for self-development and career growth.

Our colleagues are the key to our success at Tesco. We foster an environment of openness and collaboration. We draw from the diversity, knowledge and experience of our colleagues. It is all about equal opportunities, no matter who you are, or where you come from, you can get on at Tesco.

Our teams consist of individuals who can truly make a difference. Focussing on building a world-class business services centre alongside cutting-edge technology capability, they are working towards our goal of serving our customers and colleagues a little better every day.

We are expanding our operations locally and we are looking for the best talent. 

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Tesco is a diverse and exciting employer, dedicated to being #aplacetogeton, providing career-defining opportunities to all of our colleagues. If you chose to join our business, we will provide you with:

• Permanent contract from the go – as a sign of our trust in your abilities
• Yearly salary bonus – based on both individual and business performance
• Minimum 25 days of paid holiday/year for everyone
• Extensive private healthcare - complex care package including a wide range of specialists, medical services, and free flu vaccination
• Cafeteria 
• Relocation Help - professional service to secure relevant working permits and other necessary documents
• Learning opportunities - certified technical training and learning platforms like Udemy, Pluralsight, and O'Reilly
• Referral Bonus
• A learning culture and excellent opportunities to develop your career within your chosen field or something altogether new
• Varied and exciting projects to play a part in – there is always something new and exciting in the pipeline

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.

If that sounds exciting, then we'd love to hear from you!

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About the Team

The Engineering Effectiveness organisation is a dynamic new group on a mission to empower Tesco’s software engineering teams. We identify common problems faced by engineers across the organisation and tackle them by developing innovative tools and platforms. As Tesco continues to grow, our engineering systems become increasingly intricate. However, our challenge remains deceptively simple: ensure that Tesco engineers have a stellar experience, even as complexity rises.
Our work has a direct impact on every engineering team across Tesco, and by making them more effective, we ultimately accelerate innovation. The mission of the Service Communication & Security team is to provide performant, resilient and secure interservice communication, across our cloud and till estates. We build and operate a set of cloud-native services, infrastructure and CLIs, responsible for managing all of Tesco’s API traffic – think millions of requests per day.
Tesco’s enormous footprint means that our systems operate at vast scale and our teams require super high availability and ultra low latency. We obsess about system operability and as such focus heavily on observability, fully automated deployments, continuous improvement, and refinement in turn minimising system support costs. We practice continuous integration and delivery which allow us to deliver business value frequently while minimising risk. Our services are built using Java (using Micronaut and VertX) and are deployed to Kubernetes on Azure.
We also leverage several cloud services such as Cosmos DB, Blob Storage and Key Vault. We build CLIs for our engineering teams using Go, allowing us to cross-compile to multiple operating systems. In addition, we also use Bash and Terraform extensively in order to achieve a high level of automation. The culture at Tesco Technology values above all else autonomy and full end-to-end ownership of solutions, thus empowering teams to build and deliver software as effectively as possible

 

The Role

As a Software Development Engineer III on the Service Communication & Security team, your primary responsibility is to design, build and run technology solutions to deliver valuable outcomes to our customers, colleagues, and partners. You’ll be working alongside 6-8 engineers and a software development manager

Key Responsibilities:

• Designing and implementing cloud-native services using Java and/or Golang
• Building infrastructure as code using Terraform & Bash
• Running and operating distributed systems
• Testing and automating everything
• Providing technical leadership and driving delivery
• Coaching and developing fellow engineers