Software Development Engineer II

Tesco Bengaluru: We are a multi-disciplinary team creating a sustainable competitive advantage for Tesco by standardising processes, delivering cost savings, enabling agility, providing cutting-edge technological solutions and empowering our colleagues to do ever more for our customers. With cross-functional expertise in Global Business Services and Retail Technology & Engineering, a wide network of teams and strong governance we reduce complexity thereby offering high quality services for our customers. Tesco Bengaluru, established in 2004 to enable standardisation and build centralised capabilities and competencies, makes the experience better for our millions of customers worldwide and simpler for over 4,40,000 colleagues.
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As a Software Development Engineer at Tesco Technology; you will be a key player in our technology team; contributing to the design; development; and maintenance of high-performance iOS applications. We are seeking an experienced iOS developer with a strong background in software design; programming skills; and a passion for delivering exceptional applications. If you thrive in a collaborative environment and enjoy pushing the boundaries of technology; we would like to meet you.



Responsibilities:

1. **Architectural Leadership:

- Lead the design and implementation of customer-facing features; contributing to the overall system architecture.

- Collaborate with product managers and backend teams to design robust and scalable software solutions.



2. **Code & Development:

- Design; build; and maintain high-performance; reusable; and reliable code.

- Implement new features in production; ensuring code quality and adherence to best practices.



3. **Quality Assurance:

- Write unit-test code to ensure robustness; usability; and reliability of the iOS applications.

- Utilize debugging skills to identify and address memory leaks; performance bottlenecks; and other issues.



4. **Technology Exploration:

- Continuously discover; evaluate; and implement new technologies to maximize the development process.


 

Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree and/or master's degree in computer science or relevant equivalent.

- 8+ years of experience in developing iOS applications. Swift experience is required and SwiftUI is a plus.

- Proficiency with common iOS libraries like UIKit; Security; CFNetwork; CoreGraphics; XCTest ; COCOPod etc.

- Strong debugging skills; including identifying memory leaks and performance bottlenecks using tools like Debugger; Instruments; etc.

- Familiarity with Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) principles; different architectural patterns; and their testability.

- Excellent command over Data Structures and Algorithms.

- Understanding of design for scalability; performance; and reliability.

- Two or more published iOS apps in the App Store.

- Experience working in an agile environment and project management tools like Jira.

- Familiarity with Apple Design guidelines; common mobile UX patterns; and anti-patterns.