Tesco India o Bengaluru Karnataka India o Full-Time o Permanent o Apply by 31-Aug-2025 About the role As one of the world s largest retailers and the largest private employer in the United Kingdom second largest after the UK government Tesco serves millions of customers a week in our stores and online portal Tesco Bengaluru is the only international technology and retail operations centre for Tesco worldwide - we make the Tesco experience better for millions of our customers and colleagues Established in 2004 Tesco Bengaluru is pivotal to Tesco and we enable its business with our expertise in technology business operations property finance and commercial services Tesco is currently in the process of moving to a Service Orientated Architecture to increase its business agility eventually increasing its return on investment and to become the world s leading Multichannel retailer 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 Impact ValueLeads valuable features that are used by customers Questions requirements and challenges where necessary Can identify the value of tasks and always works on the highest priority items Work effectively with stakeholders to communicate and translate their needs into improvements Lead group discussions on the design of initiatives within the domain And understand the domain well enough to work with Product Managers to drive value Support production systems to resolve incidents and perform root cause analysis Debug find complex problems and support maintain the software solution o Share knowledge with the wider engineering community o Mentor and develop engineers in the team Produce proof of concepts to evaluate current tools Suggests improvements to processes and methodologies to speed delivery optional ProgrammingGood Understanding of Java programming language Familiarity with the Spring framework particularly Spring Boot Comfortable producing and refactoring code without assistance Able to test drive features in a programming language of choice Understands different major language paradigms OOP Functional Understands presence of abstraction beneath language JVM CLR Can reason about the complexity of algorithms time and space and code cyclomatic Can debug code Can understand and resolve complex issues Design Can Identify design patterns in code Can implement design patterns with guidance Comfortable translating small behaviour requirements into tasks and code Understanding of how high-quality code can lead to rapid delivery Good understanding of domains and domain modelling Seeks out and uses appropriate abstractions Good understanding of clean coding principles like SOLID DRY YAGNI KISS etc and basic code hygiene factors Good understanding of patterns for integration events services Good understanding of how to leverage existing functionality outside the immediate project Understands the scope of the project and when to move behaviour to other services Understands the importance of project instrumentation Development Practices Good understanding of CI and CD Writes unit integration and smoke tests to ensure CI CD processes work Good understanding of performance Commits code early and often Understands feature toggling Understands Git version control and branching strategies Infrastructure Experience with a UNIX-like operating system Experience with relational and non-relational databases Can script and automate within the relevant environment Understand when to apply appropriate infrastructure technologies Experience with or good understanding of containerisation and orchestration with Docker and Kubernetes Experience with or good understanding of Azure cloud computing services Experience with or good understanding of Elastic optional Security Basic grasp of secure coding and how to develop secure APIs Write secure code by default Understands the OWASP top ten Understands security as part of the SDLC Can perform a tool-based security scan and articulate vulnerabilities Understands OAUTH SAML and identity models Core Technology ConceptsUnderstands major HTTP components UDP TCP IP HTTP REST Understands core infrastructure components servers networking load balancing Behaviours Collaboration Fully participates in team ceremonies Comfortable pair programming Can use whiteboard and other materials to convey designs and principles Good at cross-functional collaboration InnovationStays abreast of industry news from a variety of sources Can understand how industry developments may affect the team Has the ability to learn new technologies and adapt to changes CulturalIs a team player Shares opinions in a respectful manner within their team area Is collaborative and always willing to help others Can coach and mentor others You will need Impact ValueLeads valuable features that are used by customers Questions requirements and challenges where necessary Can identify the value of tasks and always works on the highest priority items Work effectively with stakeholders to communicate and translate their needs into improvements Lead group discussions on the design of initiatives within the domain And understand the domain well enough to work with Product Managers to drive value Support production systems to resolve incidents and perform root cause analysis Debug find complex problems and support maintain the software solution o Share knowledge with the wider engineering community o Mentor and develop engineers in the team Produce proof of concepts to evaluate new tools Suggests improvements to processes and methodologies to speed delivery optional ProgrammingGood Understanding of Java programming language Familiarity with the Spring framework particularly Spring Boot Comfortable producing and refactoring code without assistance Able to test drive features in a programming language of choice Understands different major language paradigms OOP Functional Understands presence of abstraction beneath language JVM CLR Can reason about the complexity of algorithms time and space and code cyclomatic Can debug code Can understand and resolve complex issues Design Can Identify design patterns in code Can implement design patterns with guidance Comfortable translating small behaviour requirements into tasks and code Understanding of how high-quality code can lead to rapid delivery Good understanding of domains and domain modelling Seeks out and uses appropriate abstractions Good understanding of clean coding principles like SOLID DRY YAGNI KISS etc and basic code hygiene factors Good understanding of patterns for integration events services Good understanding of how to leverage existing functionality outside the immediate project Understands the scope of the project and when to move behaviour to other services Understands the importance of project instrumentation Development Practices Positive understanding of CI and CD Writes unit integration and smoke tests to ensure CI CD processes work Good understanding of performance Commits code early and often Understands feature toggling Understands Git version control and branching strategies Infrastructure Experience with a UNIX-like operating system Experience with relational and non-relational databases Can script and automate within the relevant environment Understand when to apply appropriate infrastructure technologies Experience with or good understanding of containerisation and orchestration with Docker and Kubernetes Experience with or good understanding of Azure cloud computing services Experience with or good understanding of Elastic optional Security Basic grasp of secure coding and how to develop secure APIs Write secure code by default Understands the OWASP top ten Understands security as part of the SDLC Can perform a tool-based security scan and articulate vulnerabilities Understands OAUTH SAML and identity models Core Technology ConceptsUnderstands major HTTP components UDP TCP IP HTTP REST Understands core infrastructure components servers networking load balancing Behaviours Collaboration Fully participates in team ceremonies Comfortable pair programming Can use whiteboard and other materials to convey designs and principles Good at cross-functional collaboration InnovationStays abreast of industry news from a variety of sources Can understand how industry developments may affect the team Has the ability to learn new technologies and adapt to changes CulturalIs a team player Shares opinions in a respectful manner within their team area Is collaborative and always willing to help others Can coach and mentor others 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

📌 Software Development Engineer Iii (Karnataka)
🏢 Tesco
📍 Karnataka