Senior Software Engineer

Overview

Serving our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day.

Salary from £50,240 - £62,800 + plus annual bonus and benefits.

Work Level - 2 (Permanent role)

Location – Edinburgh, Glasgow, Reigate or Newcastle, blended working.

Office Attendance - Our roles are hybrid, however you need to travel to our office 2 days per week for this role.

Closing Date - Applications close Monday 16th February 2026.

Tesco Insurance and Money Services is growing our Engineering team, and we’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help us continue to deliver excellent customer experiences for our customers, using modern Java script frameworks and excellent dev-ops tooling.

Our engineering culture is part of what makes us a great place to work, and we encourage all our engineers to share new ideas, challenge existing practices and always be looking for opportunities to improve their teams and our wider engineering community.

• As a senior engineer, we’d be looking to you to lead feature builds and technical proofs of concepts, help advise on industry best practices, leveraging your experience to assist in design and discovery phases and ultimately enhance our engineering team.
• Senior engineers are the lynchpin of our teams, working closely with engineers and product owners on everyday challenges, while also assisting our lead and principal engineers on our longer-term technology goals.

We work with the following tech stack, we don’t expect you to tick every box, and if you feel you hit most of the brief, it’s worth exploring to further develop your career here with us at Tesco Insurance and Money Services.

• Our core Java script frameworks include React.js, Next.js and Node.js, written with Typescript.
• We are also happy to consider experience with other component-based frameworks (e.g Angular.js, Vue.js) or server-side frameworks (e.g Express.js) as we know new frameworks are constantly emerging, but fundamental concepts remain the same
• Our applications run within Amazon Web Services. Experience with this cloud provider is preferred but not mandatory.
• All our teams are responsible for their own deployments, so we’ll provide training where necessary.
• A keen desire to get involved. We expect everyone to get involved in the design and support of our customer journeys. Our teams perform best when we collaborate, and we rely on our senior engineers to help us make the correct decision.
• A passion for sharing your experience. We know the journey of every engineer is different, so we encourage our senior engineers to actively mentor and support other engineers in their own journey.

• Prepare for your retirement with our colleague pension scheme.
• Private Healthcare, Virtual GP Service for you and your family 365 days a year.
• Critical illness cover.
• Competitive performance related annual bonus.
• Indulge in a generous holiday allowance with a minimum of 7.2 weeks, with the opportunity to buy more.
• Embrace the benefits of our Colleague Clubcard, enjoy a 10% discount that increase to 15% every payday (worth up to £2K). As an added perk, we’ll give you a second card to share with someone else.
• Benefit from our family-oriented initiatives, encompassing enhanced maternity leave pay, a shared parental leave policy, and a generous 8-week paid paternity leave.
• Green car leasing taxable benefit.
• A place to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and award-winning training, to help you achieve the job and career you want.
• Take part in our Buy as you Earn and Save as your Earn share schemes.

We want all our colleagues to always feel welcome and be themselves. We’re committed to building a more inclusive workplace and celebrating everything that makes colleagues unique, and value the richness and diversity this brings to our business. A more diverse business helps us deliver on our purpose to serve our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day.

We also know the importance of balancing work with life’s other commitments. Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you need, as we’re…