Software Development Engineer III

Job Summary

As a backend development Engineer, you'll be working in an agile team of industry leading engineers to define and develop Tesco's xAPI (Experience API) that powers Tesco's various shopping experiences i.e., tesco.com, the mobile shop application, store and other internal facing applications. You'll be a passionate, pragmatic Engineer with an inquisitive mind who is motivated to make change for the better and most importantly put our customer first.

You'll enjoy working as part of a team, liaise with product and program managers to understand requirements and build new software or extend existing software. You are a keen problem solver with the expertise and experience building extensible, maintainable, highly available, scalable, performant and observable quality software, Comfortable with modern engineering practices and backend development technologies, you'll use innovation to improve the customer experience and efficiency of engineering teams. The solutions that you will be responsible for will have a global reach, impacting millions of customers.

Some of the tech we are using at scale: JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, GraphQL, REST, Kafka, Azure Cloud, Redis, Varnish Cache, Apollo Federation, Docker, Kubernetes etc.

You will be responsible for

• Use your in-depth knowledge of JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, cloud and the backend services ecosystem to develop, and deploy scalable backend systems.
• Work with product managers to understand business/product requirements.
• Translate requirements into tasks code.
• Commit code early and often, demonstrating understanding of version control branching strategies.
• Automate everything by default.
• Write secure code by default.
• Write maintainable code and observe basic hygiene practices
• Implement relevant project instrumentation.
• Profile and optimize code.

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