TESCO TECHNOLOGY
As a Principal Software Development Engineer (FRONTEND), you are key in shaping large parts of Tesco’s technical landscape. You contribute to strategic planning, combining business vision and industry best practices to define technical strategy and make decisions.
You typically work across multiple teams, setting the standard for engineering excellence and efficient technical design. You are hands-on and guide teams to improve technology across product portfolios, infrastructure, and processes.
As a senior technical expert, you are a thought leader for large and complex areas. You set technical direction to translate strategy into action, making a significant impact to the organization. You lead the design, implementation, and delivery of software that shapes products and technologies. You use your depth of skill and experience to enable multiple teams around you to deliver excellent software quickly.
You’ll drive the technical direction of some of Tesco’s most critical services. You’ll collaborate widely across Technology teams and with our product managers and program teams to help move us forward in our technical strategy whilst delivering valuable outcomes for our consumers and customers.
You’ll have a broader impact within the software engineering community in Tesco, offering architectural guidance and support as well as having the freedom to spend time looking ahead and proving new approaches, technologies, and tools.
What will you do?
• Defining and driving the development of a technical strategy for evolving the domain.
• Being hands-on and making significant contributions to delivering outcomes.
• Working across Tesco Technology on wider technical initiatives and strategy.
• Mentoring and growing the technical capabilities of our engineering teams, using your knowledge and experience to educate and up-skill.
• Taking ownership of non-functional outcomes of the team, including focusing on performance, availability, reliability, and security.
• Continually looking for how we can improve and evolve our technology, strategy, practices, and processes.
Qualifications and relevant experience for this job
• Previous experience of working in and across engineering teams as a Tech Lead, Architect or similar role.
• Hands-on experience in development of RESTful APIs and distributed systems that work at scale.
• Previous transformation delivery experience would be a big plus.
• A polyglot set of languages, frameworks and technologies on which you can draw from your background of commercial experience with.
• 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 you retain ownership through to resolution.
• Customer focus; you can find the right balance between outcome delivery and technical excellence and place the needs of our customers above the needs of you and the team.
• Written and verbal communication skills.
Additional information
Tesco is a diverse and exciting employer, dedicated to being #aplacetogeton, providing career-defining opportunities to all of our colleagues. If you chose to join our business, we will provide you with:
• Permanent contract from the go – as a sign of our trust in your abilities.
• Yearly salary bonus – based on both individual and business performance
• Car allowance
• Extensive private healthcare – complex care package including a wide range of specialists, medical services, and free flu vaccination
• Cafeteria
• Relocation Help – professional service to secure relevant working permits and other necessary documents
• Learning opportunities – certified technical training and learning platforms like Udemy, Pluralsight, and O’Reilly.
• Referral Bonus
If that sounds exciting, then we’d love to hear from you.
