Senior Java Engineer - Customer Fulfilment

We are in the process of building and rolling out our next generation, dynamic, scalable, and resilient Fulfilment platform for Tesco, to address both manual and robotic powered automate fulfilment operations across all customer order fulfilment locations. This highly optimized and continuously improving fulfilment platform is designed to be used to fulfil all product categories – Grocery/GM and Fashion of Customer Orders.

This platform, Fulfilment Point System (FPS), enables all customer order fulfilment centres across different geographies to pick, marshal, and dispatch customer orders on one hand and manage the site workflow through a real‑time visualisation and intervention tool on the other hand.

Our globally distributed, full stack Java tech team consists of a set of micro‑service components, backend APIs, Rich UI, robust eventing platform and data‑layer components utilising a wide range of modern technologies.

• Java, RxJava, Spring Boot
• Kafka, Postgre
  
  SQL, Couchbase

We are responsible for the software throughout the lifecycle. We maintain a Dev Ops culture employing continuous integration and delivery, supporting our code through to production and beyond.

We are seeking highly skilled Software Development Engineers (SDEs) for a green field project to drive the design, development and implementation of a software solution for the next generation customer fulfilment system. As a key member of our engineering team, you will develop robust, scalable and efficient Java‑based applications to optimise warehouse operations and drive operational success. You will directly contribute to evolving product, reducing cost and increasing profitability.

• Design and Develop
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  Architect and build high‑performance applications.
• System Optimisation
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  Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to enhance system efficiency, scalability and reliability for mission‑critical applications.
• Integration
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  Develop APIs and microservices to integrate with enterprise API and third‑party platforms.
• Code Quality
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  Write clean, maintainable and well‑documented code, adhere to best practices and coding standards.
• Troubleshooting
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  Diagnose and resolve complex technical issues in real‑time to ensure uninterrupted operations.
• Mentorship
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  Guide junior engineers and foster a culture of continuous improvement.
• Innovation & Collaboration
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  Stay ahead of industry trends, work closely with hardware, data scientists and operations teams.

• Previous experience of product development using agile methodologies.
• Hands‑on experience building and supporting reliable, operationally robust full‑stack and distributed Java applications/products.
• Any previous experience contributing to globally distributed software engineering teams is a big plus.

• Programming
  • Demonstrate in‑depth knowledge of IDE, language and toolset of choice.
  • Implement critical‑path components in a large or complex project.
  • Demonstrate excellent understanding of language & framework and a good working knowledge of the abstraction layer underneath.
  • Comfortably test‑drive any feature or comfortable with TDD cycle.
  • Comfortably debug and find complex problems.
• Design
  • Identify and apply appropriate design patterns to problems.
  • Understand Idempotence.
  • Actively practise the boy‑scout principle, leaving design and code in a better state than when arrived.
  • Understand the importance of domain model and model a problem domain within a given context.
  • Understand design patterns such as CQRS and eventual consistency.
  • Understand how to design for performance at all levels.
• Development Practice
  • Automate everything by default.
  • Build a CI/CD pipeline.
• Tech Stack Specialization
  • Java, Spring Boot
  • Kafka
  • Postgres
  • Couchbase
  • CI/CD:
    Azure Pipelines / Git Hub Actions
  • Cloud:
    Azure

• Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary.
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays).
• Private medical insurance.
• 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 year’s service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of statutory maternity pay or statutory adoption pay, and 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave.
• Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee…