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.
Tesco Technology consists of people from a number of different backgrounds, but having a common purpose to serve our shoppers a little better every day with our retail technological solutions. We shared a common interest in harnessing innovations in technology to enhance their shopping experience at Tesco stores. Whether making products, software or systems, our teams focuses on various aspects from taking strategic ownership of the architecture to delivering technological solutions such as design, testing, deployment, infrastructure, operation and security of the systems to ensure agile, smooth and safe operations. These help us to deliver the maximum business impact. Teams refine their internal processes to best fit their own needs, working to build core capabilities in application and services. We collaborate globally across teams to build end-to-end customer-facing solutions, as well as to share knowledge, experience, tools and techniques.

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Take a business problem and come up with the technical strategy (push vs pull etc real time vs batches sync vs async) within the team high level design and lead the implementation
Need minimal directions or guidance and collaborate with SDEs across teams working on the same or similar business problem
You showcase exemplary behaviour in your work – your design delivery code processes all set examples for your team
Influence your team’s technical and business strategy by suggesting novel approaches
Able to communicate your ideas and get feedback from different stakeholders and drive convergence to achieve the right outcomes
Proactively mentor the rest of the team and help in hiring
Ensure design or architectural deficiencies are addressed and routinely simplify integration of your peer teams with your team’s software
Consistently lead delivery of valuable features
Continually propose and drive process improvements
Help elaborate requirements where necessary
Programming
Demonstrate in depth knowledge of IDE language and toolset in language of choice.
Implement critical path components in a large or complex or project.
Demonstrate excellent understanding of language & framework and a good working knowledge of the abstraction layer underneath
Profile and optimise code
Understand threads threading model and concurrent programming
Comfortably test drive any feature/comfortable with TDD cycle
Demonstrate a good knowledge of other programming languages & paradigms and when to apply them
Comfortably debug/find complex problems
Design
Identify and apply appropriate design patterns to problems
Comfortably develop large features
Understand Idempotence
Actively practice the boy scout principle leaves design code in a better state than when arrived
Demonstrate a good understanding of cohesion SOLID and how to apply
Understand importance of domain model and can coherently model a problem domain within a given context
Anticipate medium term (3-6 month) vectors of change and designs and abstracts accordingly
Understand and appreciate simplicity and the value of removing code
Understand design patterns such as CQRS and eventual consistency
Understand how to design for performance at all levels
Development Practice
Automate everything by default
Build a CI/CD pipeline
Automate security scanning and performance testing as part of build
Infrastructure
Demonstrate a good grasp of multiple operating systems
Demonstrate a good grasp of scripting techniques
Demonstrate expertise in one database & good grasp of multiple data storage paradigms and when to apply other technologies
Understand and can automate PaaS technologies
Understand when to apply appropriate infrastructure technologies
Security
Write secure code by default
Use tools to perform deep security probes
Understand server hardening

Java NoSQL(Preferably MonGo) Kafka microservices Azure