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.

At Tesco Business Solutions, we have a mission to simplify, scale & partner to serve our customers, colleagues and suppliers through a best-in-class intelligent Business Services model. We do this by building a world class business services model by executing services model framework right at the heart of everything we do for our worldwide customers. The key objective is to implement and execute service model across all our functions and markets consistently. The ethos of business services is to free-up our colleagues from a regular manual operational work. We use cognitive technology to augment our key decision making. We also built a Continuous Improvement (CI) culture across functions to drive bottom-up business efficiencies by optimising processes. Business services colleagues need to act as a business partner with our group stakeholders to build a collaborative partnership driving continuous improvement across markets and functions to lead the best customer experience by serving our shoppers a little better every day.

At Tesco, inclusion means that Everyone's Welcome. Everyone is treated fairly and with respect; by valuing individuality and uniqueness we create a sense of belonging.

Diversity and inclusion have always been at the heart of Tesco. It is embedded in our values: we treat people how they want to be treated. We always want our colleagues to feel they can be themselves at work and we are committed to helping them be at their best.

Across the Tesco group we are building an inclusive workplace, a place to actively celebrate the cultures, personalities and preferences of our colleagues, who in turn help to build the success of our business and reflect the diversity of the communities we serve.

Important Notice: 

On behalf of Tesco Bengaluru, we must caution all job seekers and educational institutions that Tesco Bengaluru does not authorise any third parties to release employment offers or conduct recruitment drives via a third party. Hence, beware of inauthentic and fraudulent job offers or recruitment drives from any individuals or websites purporting to represent Tesco. Further, Tesco Bengaluru does not charge any fee or other emoluments for any reason (including without limitation, visa fees) or seek compensation from educational institutions to participate in recruitment events. 

Accordingly, please check the authenticity of any such offers before acting on them and where acted upon, you do so at your own risk. Tesco Bengaluru shall neither be responsible for honouring or making good the promises made by fraudulent third parties, nor for any monetary or any other loss incurred by the aggrieved individual or educational institution. 

In the event that you come across any fraudulent activities in the name of Tesco Bengaluru, please feel free report the incident at recruitment_compliance_india@tesco.com 

Coding & Development Practices
1. Very strong understanding of distributed computing concepts.
2. Very good knowledge on PySpark and dataframe APIs.
3. Good experience on Spark application performance tuning and optimisations. Should have worked on both batch and streaming data processing.
4. Good understanding of Hive and usage with Spark as well as any other open table format like iceberg.
5. Good knowledge on data integration tools like Sqoop.
6. Experience on orchestration tools like oozie; airflow etc.
7. Basic knowledge on shell scripting.
8. Proven ability to write clean code that’s maintainable and extensible (design patterns; OOPs). Proven ability to write unite test cases.
9. Comfortable with Git and GitHub.
10. Experience in cloud platform like MS Azure is an added advantage.
11. Automate everything by default
12. Build a CI/CD pipeline
13. Automate security scanning and performance testing as part of build.
Design
1. Able to come up with multiple design solutions and justify the reason for chosen solution.
2. Able to understand the impact on the interface across applications.
3. Able to identify risks and come up with mitigation plan.
4. Able to come up with High and Low-Level Design (HLD) for a given requirement.
5. Should be able to work with stake holders and break requirements into user stories.
6. Able to identify / highlight non-functional requirements and the design should cater for the same.
7. Able to do an optimal design and thereby having minimal changes to the system.
8. Design should cater for the future considerations.
9. Understands Requirement Traceability and ensures that all design components are traced back to requirements.
10. Able to design re-usable and scalable modules.
11. Able to anticipate common exceptions and design defensive mechanisms.
12. Able to optimize the design to achieve maximum performance consuming minimal resources.
13. Considers SLA (Service Level Agreement); SLO; SLIs and OLA (Organization Level Agreement) before designing Job schedule.
Problem Solving
1. Solves problems on their own merit.
2. Clarifies requirements and asserts them in unit tests when necessary.
3. Takes an iterative incremental approach to solving the problem.
4. Is able to communicate and discuss the problem effectively with the team.
5. Able to re-create the problematic scenario and suggest ideal solution.

Data Engineering; Big Data Processing; Spark; Hadoop; HBase; Hive; Hadoop; Data Pipelines; Python; Scala; CI; CD; Problem Solving; Leadership skills; Performance analysis & improvements