Senior Backend Engineer; Node.js

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., , 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:
Java script, Typescript, Node.

JS, Graph

QL, REST, Kafka, Azure Cloud, Redis, Varnish Cache, Apollo Federation, Docker, Kubernetes etc.

• 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 optimise code.
• Apply understanding of cohesion and the SOLID principles to create well structured, maintainable software.
• Identify patterns in code and refactor the code towards them where it increases understanding and/or maintainability with minimal guidance.
• Produce test driven features in a specific programming language and demonstrate familiarity with the TDD development.
• Follow the best practices of continuous BDD/TDD/Performance/Security/Smoke testing.
• Work effectively with product stakeholders to communicate and translate needs into product improvements.
• Lead group discussions on system designand understand domain well enough to work with Product Managers to drive value.
• Support production systems, 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 others around you.
• Produce proof of concepts to evaluate new tools.

• 7+ Years professional experience as a Backend Software Developer.
• At least 4 years of experience in backend development using Java script, Typescript, Node.
  
  JS and related backend technologies, frameworks.
• Exposure to a variety of JavaScript frameworks and libraries such as:
  Next.
  
  JS, React.
  
  JS and testing using Jest, Mocha.
  
  JS, Cucumber etc.
• Experience of using Node.js to create high traffic applications using Express.js, Sails, Koa or similar.
• Knowledge of microservices development and deployment in the cloud i.e. Azure/AWS/GCP cloud.
• Knowledge of virtualization, containerization and container orchestration technologies like Docker, Kubernetes etc.
• Experience with usage of Graph
  
  QL, building Graph
  
  QL servers and Graph
  
  QL Federation technologies like Apollo Federation.
• Experience with using and building REST API services.
• Knowledge of distributed messaging systems like Kafka, Rabbit
  
  MQ etc.
• Knowledge of distributed caching technologies like Redis.
• A desire to write readable, maintainable, modular and extendable code.
• Exposure to the Dev Ops model.
• Experience in Lean and Agile environments and understanding of principles behind methodologies such as: BDD, ATDD and TDD.

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