Software Development Engineer II (Profile team)

About us

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, Czech Republic 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 

About the role

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

Technology stack which we are using: 

• Languages: Experience in delivering Java (or any other JVM-based solutions), JS, TypeScript 
• Frameworks: Micronaut or Spring Boot 
• Cloud: Azure  
• Architecture: Microservices  
• DB: SQL (PostgreSQL), NoSQL databases, e.g. Cosmos DB or Couch DB 
• Workloads on Kubernetes, Azure Azure AKS, Azure App Services, and/or GitHub Actions 
• Monitoring & alerting: Splunk, xMatters, NewRelic, Runscope etc. 
• Testing: Gatling  
• VCS: GitHub  
• Zendesk & JIRA 

The Profile team is responsible for developing and maintaining backend APIs that manage customer personal information and preferences. We focus on cloud infrastructure using DevOps practices with technologies like Terraform and Azure, ensuring data security

You will be responsible for

We embrace a DevOps philosophy, taking full ownership of our software throughout its lifecycle. We practice continuous integration, delivery, and support, ensuring high-quality code in production and beyond. We also provide ample opportunities for engineers to upskill in DevOps, including a rotation to our Platform team.

While specific responsibilities will evolve with Tesco’s business needs, the role’s key areas of impact include:

• Be a coder; review and contribute code.
• Maintain high-quality documentation to support development processes and system design.
• Focus on performance, availability, reliability, and security.
• 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.

You will need

• Around 4 years of experience in Java
• Experience working with Agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban)
• Good English communication skills
• Experience with AWS, Azure or other cloud solutions would be nice to have, but not necessary
• Communication and cooperation skills
• Understanding of System Design

What is in it for you

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 
• IP Tax Deductible Costs 

Salary:

UoP 18 000 - 24 000 PLN gross/month

B2B 20 000 - 27 000 PLN net/month 

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.