Software Development Engineer III - Frontend

Tesco is a leading multinational retailer, with more than 330 000 colleagues.

Our software is used by millions of people across several countries every day. Whether it’s the tills and websites our customers use, or the systems our colleagues and partners use, you’ll play your part in keeping it running like a well-oiled machine. And when a business problem pops up? You and the creative minds in our team will be challenged to solve it.

As Tech Hub we cooperate within the group of Tesco Technology Hubs located in the UK, Poland, Hungary, and India.

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

Salary:

UoP 22 000 - 30 000 PLN gross/month

B2B 26 000 - 36 000 PLN net/month

Benefits

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

• Permanent contract from the go – as a sign of our trust in your abilities
• MacBook as your tool for work
• Learning opportunities - certified technical training and learning platforms like Udemy, Pluralsight and O’reily
• Referral Bonus
• Sports activities with a personal trainer in the office

Benefits for colleagues on employment of contract only:

• Additional 4 days of paid leave to support your well-being and family life
• Up to 20% yearly salary bonus – based on both individual and business performance
• Private healthcare (LuxMed)
• Cafeteria & Multisport
• Supporting those, who are not yet eligible for full holiday entitlement, by expanding their pool from 20 to 25 days
• Relocation Help
• Heightened income costs (KUP)

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

This job requires to be based in/close to Kraków. We currently work in a hybrid model and meet in our office 3 days a week.

About Distribution area:

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.

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.

You will be responsible for

As a Software Development Engineer III, you’ll be part of an agile team of industry-leading TypeScript engineers upon Tesco’s People Transformation. You will be solving problems, and developing new features through quality, scalable, performant, and maintainable technical solutions. The solutions that you and your team will be responsible for will have a global reach, impacting hundreds of thousands of Tesco colleagues.

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.
• Cross-platform, 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.

Technology stack which we are using:

• JavaScript
• TypeScript
• React
• Node.js
• Expres.js
• Reactive approach
• GitOps
• Micro-frontend architecture
• Single Page Application
• Testing (e.g. Unit Tests, E2E Tests)
• Written & spoken English

You will need:

• 4+ years of commercial software development experience in JS / TypeScript.
• Experience in running and supporting software in production (dev-ops approach).
• Problem-solving, analysis, and computational skills. You are comfortable designing systems and reasoning about them. When tackling problems, you take a thorough and logical approach to solving them and you retain ownership through to resolution.
• Designing and developing systems for high availability and scalability.
• Experience working within an e-commerce or at-scale business where security, availability, and reliability are valued.
• Depth of professional software engineering experience and best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.