Senior Software Java Engineer - Customer Fulfilment United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

About the role:

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 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, PostgreSQL and Couchbase Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Azure Dev Ops, Splunk, App Dynamics, New Relic Azure Cloud 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.

What is in it for you:
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 (12 months service required at the qualifying date) 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 The above information is a shortened summary, refer to our policies for full details

You will be responsible for:
We are seeking highly skilled Software Development Engineers (SDEs) for a green field project to drive the design, development and implementation of software solution for 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:
Architect and build high-performance applications.

System Optimisation:
Collaborate with cross functional teams to enhance system efficiency, scalability and reliability for mission critical applications.

Integration:
Develop APIs and microservices to integrated with enterprise API and third-party platforms.

Code Quality:
Write clean, maintainable and well documented code, adhere to best practices and coding standards.

Troubleshooting:
Diagnose and resolve complex technical issues in real-time to ensure un-interrupted operations.

Mentorship: guide junior engineers and foster culture of continuous improvement.

Innovation &

Collaboration:

Stay ahead of industry, work closely with hardware, data scientists and operation team.

You will need:
Experience relevant for this job:

Previous experience of having done product development using agile methodologies

Hands-on experience of building and supporting reliable and operationally robust full stack and distributed Java applications / products

Any previous experience of having contributed in a globally distributed software engineering teams would be a big plus.

Tech Skills Programming Demonstrate in depth knowledge of IDE, language, and toolset in language of choice. Implement critical path components in a large or complex or project. Demonstrate excellent understanding of language & framework and a good working knowledge of the abstraction layer underneath Comfortably test drive any feature/comfortable with TDD cycle Comfortably debug/find complex problems

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