Job highlights

- Experience relevant for this job: .

- Previous experience with management of software engineering teams of around 5 people in size.

Job Summary

We are in the process of building, evolving and rolling out our inhouse built Fulfilment Point System (FPS) platform to all our Customer Order Fulfilment locations within the UK and Internationally. FPS is current generation Fulfilment application which enables all the customer order fulfilment centres to pick, marshal and dispatch customer orders on one hand and manage the site workflow through a real-time visualisation and intervention tool, on the other hand.

Ours is a globally distributed, full stack java tech team and our building blocks consist of a set of Microservice components, backend APIs, Rich UI, robust Eventing Platform and Data layer components utilising a wide range of modern technologies including:

- Java, RxJava, SpringBoot

- React and Node JS

- Kafka, PostgreSQL and Couchbase

- Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Splunk, AppDynamics, New Relic

- Azure Cloud

We are responsible for the software throughout the lifecycle. We maintain a DevOps culture employing continuous integration and delivery, supporting our code through to production and beyond.

Responsibilities

You will be responsible for

- Foster the careers of the engineers reporting into you by finding opportunity for growth, coaching, addressing concerns and if necessary, implementing performance management.

- Grow the capability of Tesco Technology by becoming involved in our engineering hiring and being passionate about building high performing and diverse teams.

- Work closely with Product Management to identify and minimise risk within an outcome and help prioritise and evolve a workable technical solution ready for delivery.

- Represent Customer Fulfilment technology team within the wider technical discussions across different stakeholder groups,



constantly broadening your understanding of our technology landscape to increase the effectiveness of your contribution.

- Take ownership for the delivery of specific outcomes, or work across wider groups in conjunction with programme management to deliver more significant outcomes.

- Take ownership of non-functional outcomes of Customer Fulfilment Components (e.g. FPS) capabilities and features, including performance, availability, reliability and security.

- Continually look for means to evolve and improve our technology, processes and practices.

You will need

Experience relevant for this job:

- Previous experience with management of software engineering teams of around 5 people in size.

- Previous experience of having managed product development using agile methodologies

- Hands-on experience of building and supporting reliable and operationally robust full stack and distributed Java applications / products

- Any previous experience of having managed a globally distributed software engineering teams would be a big plus.

Skills relevant for the job:

- A high degree of emotional intelligence. You are aware of your own emotions, how you appear and can self-reflect on your actions. You can empathise with others and modify your behaviour and style accordingly.

- Problem solving, analysis and computational skills. You are comfortable designing systems and reasoning about them. When tackling problems, you take a thorough and logical approach to solving them and retaining ownership through to resolution.

- Customer focus. You can find the right balance between outcome delivery and technical excellence. You place the needs of our customers above the needs of you and the team.

- Written and verbal communication skills. You can communicate effectively and efficiently considering the nature of your audience

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📌 Software Development Manager (Bengaluru)
🏢 Tesco
📍 Bengaluru