Software Development Engineer II - Java Backend Engineer

About the role
Software Development Engineers (SDEs) are the creative minds developing the software applications that make life easier for customers. Responsible for the entire development and support process for a software programme. Your applications make previously complex tasks simple with the impact ranging from saving time, effort or money to re-defining normal. Take a problem where technical strategy or approach is defined and come up with the solution design and drives the implementation with a fair level of autonomy including interacting with other SDEs in the same team or peer teams
You will be responsible for

• Develop
  Java web services and components according to a detailed design document.
• Build efficient,
  reusable and reliable Java code per industry best practices.
• Follow TDD
  approach and ensure unit-test coverage meets quality requirements.
• Develop
  Integration tests to ensure coding adheres to acceptance criteria and verify
  end-to-end behaviour of the system.
• Ensure
  best possible performance, quality and responsiveness of applications.
• Familiar
  with Agile ways of working
• Follow
  coding standards and Industry best practices.
• Develop
  reusable components.
• Take a
  problem where technical strategy or approach is defined and come up with the
  solution design and drives the implementation with a fair level of autonomy
  including interacting with other SDEs in the same team or peer teams
• Reach out
  for direction proactively in case of ambiguities or constraints
• Own the
  delivery of a major component in a product or a small product entirely as part
  of a feature delivery
• Suggest
  improvements to processes and methodologies to enhance delivery speed, quality
• Mentor and
  guide other SDEs in the team and help in hiring
• Question
  requirements and challenge where necessary
• Identify
  value of tasks & always work on the highest priority items
• Programming
  • Demonstrate
    a good understanding of at least one major programming language
  • Understand
    the framework and enough of the tool ecosystem of the chosen language to implement
    end to end components with minimal assistance
  • Comfortably
    produce and refactor code without assistance
  • Test drive
    features in programming language of choice
  • Understand
    different major language paradigms (OOP/Functional)
  • Understand
    presence of abstraction beneath language (DVM/JVM/CLR)
  • Reason
    about complexity of algorithms (time and space) and code (cyclomatic)
  • Debug code
  • Understand
    and resolve complex issues
• Design
  • Identify
    design patterns in code
  • Implement
    design patterns with guidance
  • Comfortably
    translate small behaviour requirements into tasks & code
  • Understand
    how high-quality code can lead to rapid delivery
  • Write clean,
    maintainable code
  • Demonstrate
    a basic understanding of domains and domain modelling
  • Seek out
    and use appropriate abstractions
  • Understand
    patterns for integration (events/services)
  • Understand
    how to leverage existing functionality outside immediate project
  • Understand
    scope of project and when to move behaviour to other services
• Development
  Practice
  • Understand
    continuous integration and continuous delivery
  • Demonstrate
    a working knowledge of CI tooling
  • Writes
    tests to ensure CI/CD processes work
  • Understand
    BDD/TDD/Performance/Security/Smoke testing
• Infrastructure
  • Demonstrate
    a good working knowledge of one relevant operating system
  • Script and
    automate within relevant environment
• Security
  • Understand
    Oauth/Saml & identity models
    
    

You will need

• Must have experience developing in Java latest version (Java Version 11 and above); experience in design and development using Micro service architecture.
  
• Solid knowledge in OOP concepts; and design principles/patterns for developing scalable applications
  
• Must have experience in developing Spring Boot applications;
  
• developing database access layer using Spring Data JPA/Hibernates;
  
• developing REST Services using Spring;
  
• development of event driven systems using any framework/kafka;
  
• experience with any RDBMS and at least one NoSQL database preferably PostgresSQL and Mongo DB;
  
• experience in writing unit and integration tests using Junit;
  
• experience using mock frameworks like Mockito;
  
• WireMock experience using Git;
  
• experience with CI / CD
  
• Basic hands-on experience in one of the cloud provider (AWS/Azure) or at least docker and Kubernetes Familiarity with build tools Maven or Gradle
  
• Added advantage with experience of Reactive and Functional Programming
  

Whats 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-Free Salary - In addition to Statutory retirement benefits, 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.
  

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.