Software Development Engineer (Java)
- Recruiter
- Tesco
- Location
- Welwyn Garden City
- Salary
- Competitive
- Posted
- 08 May 2017
- Closes
- 05 Jun 2017
- Sectors
- Engineering
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Summary
The Software Development Engineering team are responsible for the full software development lifecycle. They work with Product Managers to help shape the backlog and future direction of the products we build. They implement and test features to a very high quality and support the product or service in testing and live environments.
Our Engineers have industry-leading technical abilities, demonstrating breadth and depth of knowledge of engineering best-practices: design, design patterns, re-usability, usability, testability, version control, documentation, build, deployment and operations. They are expected to design each piece of the application or system and plan how the pieces will work together, producing high quality, maintainable and resilient code. They demonstrate an ability to analyse problems and solve them at their root cause, recommending software upgrades for existing applications and systems ensuring that the software continues to function normally through regular use, maintenance and testing.
Our Software Development Engineers can pursue 2 distinct career paths - as an individual contributor or alternatively a management route.
Package
We offer excellent benefits that help make Tesco a great place to work. These include but aren't limited to:
- An annual bonus scheme which you can achieve up to 3.5% of base salary.
- Privilegecard (including a 2nd card for a family member) after 6 months service with 10% off most purchases at Tesco.
- A retirement savings plan - 4%-7.5% contribution rate
- Life Assurance - 5 x contractual pay
- Buy As You Earn Scheme
- Save As You Earn Scheme
- Deals & Discounts through Tesco including Tesco Mobile & Tesco Bank
- Deals and Discounts through many other external businesses
Main Responsibilities
Whilst specific responsibilities will be dependent upon the changing needs of the Tesco business, the following provides an overview of the role's key responsibilities and measures:
* Address problems at their route cause and solve problems for the long-term, balancing complexity against business value.
* Build and deploy solutions to customers for problems of significant scope and complexity.
* Contribute to the evolution of our software engineering practices, recommending changes in development, maintenance and system standards.
* Impart knowledge to users, customers, and other team members.
* Build solid working relationships with relevant personnel across Tesco.
* Consistently seek out new languages and tools that will help to improve working practices across multiple teams.
* Perform code reviews, suggesting best practice improvements.
* Educate, review and help other engineers to grow their capability
* Design and build new tools that make the organisation more efficient, impacting the way the entire organisation operates.
* This role will best suit an individual who enjoys working as part of a team, is well organised, pragmatic and a lateral thinker with an inquisitive mind who is motivated to make change for the better and, most importantly, puts our customers first.
Ideal Candidate
You'll need to have demonstrated experience of:
* Object-oriented design and data structures
* Algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
* Proficiency in at least one modern programming language such as Java, Go, Rust, Clojure, F#
* Experience of frameworks such as Vertx
* Experience with relational and non-relational DBs
* Experience with Cloud Infrastructure AWS
* Experience with Ansible (or similar like Chef or Puppet) and Maven (or similar like Ant or Gradle)
* Experience in tools such as: Jira, Jenkins and Git(Hub)
* Writing readable, maintainable, modular and extendable code
* Experience in full development life cycle; design, coding, test, build, QA, deployment and maintenance
* Exposure to the DevOps model
* Experience in Lean and Agile environments and understanding of principles behind methodologies such as: BDD, ATDD and TDD
* A desire to lead, mentor, up-skill and inspire fellow engineers
* Solid enterprise / commercial development experience
* A strong team player with the ability to influence and lead stakeholders when necessary
* Demonstrable ability to self-manage, be proactive, take ownership, build relationships and drive solutions through from inception to production
Personal
* Flexibility, ability to plan and organise, responsiveness, creativity, self-starter
* Able to build solid working relationships with peers and senior leadership
* Ability to demonstrate strong written, verbal communication and presentation
To visit our website and apply for this role please click the APPLY button.
The Software Development Engineering team are responsible for the full software development lifecycle. They work with Product Managers to help shape the backlog and future direction of the products we build. They implement and test features to a very high quality and support the product or service in testing and live environments.
Our Engineers have industry-leading technical abilities, demonstrating breadth and depth of knowledge of engineering best-practices: design, design patterns, re-usability, usability, testability, version control, documentation, build, deployment and operations. They are expected to design each piece of the application or system and plan how the pieces will work together, producing high quality, maintainable and resilient code. They demonstrate an ability to analyse problems and solve them at their root cause, recommending software upgrades for existing applications and systems ensuring that the software continues to function normally through regular use, maintenance and testing.
Our Software Development Engineers can pursue 2 distinct career paths - as an individual contributor or alternatively a management route.
Package
We offer excellent benefits that help make Tesco a great place to work. These include but aren't limited to:
- An annual bonus scheme which you can achieve up to 3.5% of base salary.
- Privilegecard (including a 2nd card for a family member) after 6 months service with 10% off most purchases at Tesco.
- A retirement savings plan - 4%-7.5% contribution rate
- Life Assurance - 5 x contractual pay
- Buy As You Earn Scheme
- Save As You Earn Scheme
- Deals & Discounts through Tesco including Tesco Mobile & Tesco Bank
- Deals and Discounts through many other external businesses
Main Responsibilities
Whilst specific responsibilities will be dependent upon the changing needs of the Tesco business, the following provides an overview of the role's key responsibilities and measures:
* Address problems at their route cause and solve problems for the long-term, balancing complexity against business value.
* Build and deploy solutions to customers for problems of significant scope and complexity.
* Contribute to the evolution of our software engineering practices, recommending changes in development, maintenance and system standards.
* Impart knowledge to users, customers, and other team members.
* Build solid working relationships with relevant personnel across Tesco.
* Consistently seek out new languages and tools that will help to improve working practices across multiple teams.
* Perform code reviews, suggesting best practice improvements.
* Educate, review and help other engineers to grow their capability
* Design and build new tools that make the organisation more efficient, impacting the way the entire organisation operates.
* This role will best suit an individual who enjoys working as part of a team, is well organised, pragmatic and a lateral thinker with an inquisitive mind who is motivated to make change for the better and, most importantly, puts our customers first.
Ideal Candidate
You'll need to have demonstrated experience of:
* Object-oriented design and data structures
* Algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
* Proficiency in at least one modern programming language such as Java, Go, Rust, Clojure, F#
* Experience of frameworks such as Vertx
* Experience with relational and non-relational DBs
* Experience with Cloud Infrastructure AWS
* Experience with Ansible (or similar like Chef or Puppet) and Maven (or similar like Ant or Gradle)
* Experience in tools such as: Jira, Jenkins and Git(Hub)
* Writing readable, maintainable, modular and extendable code
* Experience in full development life cycle; design, coding, test, build, QA, deployment and maintenance
* Exposure to the DevOps model
* Experience in Lean and Agile environments and understanding of principles behind methodologies such as: BDD, ATDD and TDD
* A desire to lead, mentor, up-skill and inspire fellow engineers
* Solid enterprise / commercial development experience
* A strong team player with the ability to influence and lead stakeholders when necessary
* Demonstrable ability to self-manage, be proactive, take ownership, build relationships and drive solutions through from inception to production
Personal
* Flexibility, ability to plan and organise, responsiveness, creativity, self-starter
* Able to build solid working relationships with peers and senior leadership
* Ability to demonstrate strong written, verbal communication and presentation
To visit our website and apply for this role please click the APPLY button.