Software Development Engineer II

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 in this job.

What is in it 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.

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).
• Reason about complexity of algorithms (time and space) and code (cyclomatic).
• Debug code.
• Understand and resolve complex issues.

Design

• Identify and apply appropriate design patterns to problems.
• 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