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.
At Tesco, inclusion means that Everyone?s Welcome. Everyone is treated fairly and with respect; by valuing individuality and uniqueness we create a sense of belonging.
Diversity and inclusion have always been at the heart of Tesco. It is embedded in our values: we treat people how they want to be treated. We always want our colleagues to feel they can be themselves at work and we are committed to helping them be at their best.
Across the Tesco group we are building an inclusive workplace, a place to actively celebrate the cultures, personalities and preferences of our colleagues ? who in turn help to build the success of our business and reflect the diversity of the communities we serve.
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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 several different backgrounds; but have 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 focus 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 applications 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. At Tesco; inclusion means that Everyone’s Welcome. Everyone is treated fairly and with respect; by valuing individuality and uniqueness we create a sense of belonging.
Diversity and inclusion have always been at the heart of Tesco. It is embedded in our values: we treat people how they want to be treated. We always want our colleagues to feel they can be themselves at work and we are committed to helping them be at their best.
Across the Tesco group; we are building an inclusive workplace; a place to actively celebrate the cultures; personalities and preferences of our colleagues – who in turn help to build the success of our business and reflect the diversity of the communities we serve.
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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.
Impact & Value
Leads 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.
Share knowledge with the wider engineering community.
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). Programming Good 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 Concepts
Understands major HTTP components (UDP/TCP/IP/HTTP/REST).
Can use whiteboard and other materials to convey designs and principles.
Good at cross-functional collaboration.
Innovation
Stays 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.
Cultural
Is 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.
Qualifications
Good Understanding of Java programming language; Familiarity with the Kafka; Spring framework; particularly Spring Boot. Familiarity with the Search and Retail domain is highly desirable.
Additional Information
Important Notice:
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Accordingly, please check the authenticity of any such offers before acting on them and where acted upon, you do so at your own risk. Tesco Bengaluru shall neither be responsible for honouring or making good the promises made by fraudulent third parties, nor for any monetary or any other loss incurred by the aggrieved individual or educational institution.
In the event that you come across any fraudulent activities in the name of Tesco Bengaluru, please feel free report the incident at [email protected]
Seniority level
Not Applicable
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Information Technology
Industries
Retail
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