Software Development Engineer II; Java - Customer Fulfilment

Tesco UK
• Welwyn Garden City
• Full-Time
• Permanent
• Working hours 36
• Apply by 10-Aug-2026

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 automated fulfilment operations, across all the 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 the 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.

Ours is a globally distributed, full stack java tech team and our building blocks consist of a set of Microservice components, backend APIs, Rich UI, robust Eventing Platform and Data layer components utilising a wide range of modern technologies including:

• Java, RxJava, Spring Boot
• Kafka, Postgre
  
  SQL and Couchbase
• Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Azure Dev Ops, Git Hub Actions, Splunk, New Relic
• Azure Cloud

We are responsible for the software throughout the lifecycle. We follow a strong Dev Ops culture, owning services end-to-end from development through to production support.

We're all about the little helps. That's why we make sure our Tesco colleague benefits package takes care of you - both in and out of work.  to find out more!

• 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 years' service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave
• Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing

• Develop robust, scalable and efficient backend services to optimise fulfilment operations and drive operational success.
• Build scalable, resilient Java-based backend services, APIs, and microservices to support fulfilment workflows and systems.
• Implement and ship end-to-end stories, primarily focused on frontend with some backend integration.
• Take ownership of medium-sized features and participate in their design and delivery.
• Work closely with engineers, product managers, and stakeholders to understand problems and propose solutions.
• Write clean, maintainable code and contribute to peer reviews to raise the team's quality bar.
• Help onboard junior engineers and share knowledge across the team.
• Apply best practices and contribute to improving development processes and standards.

• Previous experience of having done product development using agile methodologies.
• Hands‑on experience of building and supporting reliable and operationally robust distributed Java applications / products.
• Any previous experience of having contributed in a globally distributed software engineering teams would be a big plus.

• Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, Postgre
  
  SQL, Couchbase, RESTful APIs.
• CI/CD pipelines (Azure Dev Ops, Git Hub Actions), Docker, Kubernetes.
• Azure.
• TDD, clean code, automation, performance optimisation.