Job Description

Tesco India o Bengaluru o Hybrid o Full-Time o Permanent o Apply by 31-Jul-2025



About the role



As a Software Development Engineer 3 you are in a senior Individual Contributor engineering role at Tesco. Your proficiency with foundational computer science and software engineering concepts is taken as a given, and you will have proven significant technical depth and breadth. At this level you will be playing an active role in technical leadership, with proven impact across teams and the wider directorate. You take ownership and accountability of the development of the products in your domain. You participate in activities that build capability across the organisation, coaching and mentoring of existing colleagues.



What is in it for you



At Tesco, we are committed to providing the best for you. As a result, our colleagues enjoy a unique, differentiated, market- competitive reward package, based on the current industry practices, for all the work they put into serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day. Our Tesco Rewards framework consists of pillars - Fixed Pay, Incentives, and Benefits. Total Rewards offered at Tesco is determined by four principles - simple, fair, competitive, and sustainable. Salary - Your fixed pay is the guaranteed pay as per your contract of employment. Leave & Time-off - Colleagues are entitled to 30 days of leave (18 days of Earned Leave, 12 days of Casual/Sick Leave) and 10 national and festival holidays, as per the company's policy. Making Retirement Tension-FreeSalary - In addition to Statutory retirement beneets, Tesco enables colleagues to participate in voluntary programmes like NPS and VPF. Health is Wealth - Tesco promotes programmes that support a culture of health and wellness including insurance for colleagues and their family. Our medical insurance provides coverage for dependents including parents or in-laws. Mental Wellbeing - We offer mental health support through self-help tools, community groups, ally networks, face-to-face counselling, and more for both colleagues and dependents. Financial Wellbeing - Through our financial literacy partner, we offer one-to-one financial coaching at discounted rates, as well as salary advances on earned wages upon request. Save As You Earn (SAYE) - Our SAYE programme allows colleagues to transition from being employees to Tesco shareholders through a structured 3-year savings plan. Physical Wellbeing - Our green campus promotes physical wellbeing with facilities that include a cricket pitch, football field, badminton and volleyball courts, along with indoor games, encouraging a healthier lifestyle.



You will be responsible for



Following our Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence and have these specific risk responsibilities:

I provide perspective and context for technology choices across my directorate. The work that I do has foundational impact across teams in my area and the directorate that I am a member of. I am a technical leader for my teams and others will regularly come to me for mentorship and support.

I am comfortable both supporting other engineers in their delivery and taking the lead on key features as appropriate.

I have delivered multiple projects that move the needle for the business. I have demonstrated technical breadth and depth; I am an expert in my domain.

At this level I display a high degree of ownership for the work conducted by the team. I am accountable for the quality of every result, produced by individuals and teams.

I am an advocate of best practices across my directorate. I build maturity in the way we develop, deliver and operate services.

I ensure that we're learning from the best in the industry, designing and implementing appropriate testing and deployment strategies.

I can anticipate feature evolution of my product. I utilise this when facilitating design sessions to ensure that the system architecture evolves to support future requirements.

I understand the wider Tesco architectural strategy and champion its application to the systems that I work on.

At this level my job starts to become just as much about exercising technical judgment as it does about implementation.

I am comfortable managing competing priorities and am able to bring order to ambiguous scenarios.

I create optimal outcomes combining short-term and long-term goals, utilising data driven decision making techniques to take appropriate trade-offs.

I can identify risks and proactively engage with product and programme managers. I am a strong communicator within my team and to my stakeholders.

I am a trusted mentor, a role-model for more junior engineers. I am approachable and am frequently asked to mentor those around me.

I prioritise sharing skills and technical knowledge across the directorate, both informally in 1:1 discussions and by arranging more formal training opportunities.



You will need



Programming

System Design

Development Practise

Infrastructure

Software Security

Operations and Maintenance

Core Technology

Development Lifecycle

Product Methodologies

Retail Technology Awareness

Communication & Influencing

Data Analytics & Insights

Strategic Thinking & Problem Solving

Finance & Procurement

Curiosity & Learning

Embracing and Enabling Change

Primary Skills:

JS, Typescript, NodeJS, Express, NoSql (Couchbase), Cache, Dockers, kafka

Secondary - React, Redux/Relay, Graphql, Webpack



Successfully had impact on teams of teams.

Demonstrated experience designing, developing and running highly-scalable distributed systems.

Experience implementing a range of design and architecture patterns.

Experience of technical leadership within a team. Coaching, supporting and mentoring those around me.



About us



Tesco in Bengaluru is a multi-disciplinary team serving our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day across markets. Our goal is to create a sustainable competitive advantage for Tesco by standardising processes, delivering cost savings, enabling agility through technological solutions, and empowering our colleagues to do even more for our customers. With cross-functional expertise, a wide network of teams, and strong governance, we reduce complexity, thereby offering high-quality services for our customers. Tesco in 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 3,30,000 colleagues Tesco Technology Today, our Technology team consists of over 5,000 experts spread across the UK, Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and India. In India, our Technology division includes teams dedicated to Engineering, Product, Programme, Service Desk and Operations, Systems Engineering, Security & Capability, Data Science, and other roles. At Tesco, our retail platform comprises a wide array of capabilities, value propositions, and products, essential for crafting exceptional retail experiences for our customers and colleagues across all channels and markets. This platform encompasses all aspects of our operations - from identifying and authenticating customers, managing products, pricing, promoting, enabling customers to discover products, facilitating payment, and ensuring delivery. By developing a comprehensive Retail Platform, we ensure that as customer touchpoints and devices evolve, we can consistently deliver seamless experiences. This adaptability allows us to respond flexibly without the need to overhaul our technology, thanks to the creation of capabilities we have built.



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