Software Development Engineer - SDEIII

About the role
As a software development engineer III, you will be responsible for building specific capabilities for the Tesco Dev, an enterprise-grade platform that is expected to host internet-scale workloads in Tesco. In this role, you will have to design and develop reusable solutions by collaborating with the product manager and engineers across India and UK.
You will be responsible for

Data
Engineering relevant skills:

1. Good at
   exploring data using advanced data analytics techniques
2. Able to
   identify, explore and recommend possible problems to solve
3. Able to
   come up with the right design adhering to best practices of data engineering
4. Good
   understanding of solving time series, forecasting problems
5. Experience
   in data science, Deep learning is an added advantage
   
   

You will need

Coding
& Development Practices

1. Very
   strong understanding of distributed computing concepts.


2. Very
   good knowledge on PySpark and dataframe APIs.


3. Good
   experience on Spark application performance tuning and optimisations.
   Should have worked on both batch and streaming data processing.


4. Good
   understanding of Hive and usage with Spark as well as any other open table
   format like iceberg.


5. Good
   knowledge on data integration tools like Sqoop.


6. Experience
   on orchestration tools like oozie, airflow etc.


7. Basic
   knowledge on shell scripting.


8. Proven
   ability to write clean code that’s maintainable and extensible (design
   patterns, OOPs). Proven ability to write unite test cases.


9. Comfortable
   with Git and GitHub.


10. Experience
    in cloud platform like MS Azure is an added advantage.


11. Automate
    everything by default


12. Build
    a CI/CD pipeline


13. Automate
    security scanning and performance testing as part of build.

Design

1. Able
   to come up with multiple design solutions and justify the reason for
   chosen solution.


2. Able
   to understand the impact on the interface across applications.


3. Able
   to identify risks and come up with mitigation plan.


4. Able
   to come up with High and Low-Level Design (HLD) for a given requirement.


5. Should
   be able to work with stake holders and break requirements into user
   stories.


6. Able
   to identify / highlight non-functional requirements and the design should
   cater for the same.


7. Able
   to do an optimal design and thereby having minimal changes to the system.


8. Design
   should cater for the future considerations.


9. Understands
   Requirement Traceability and ensures that all design components are traced
   back to requirements.


10. Able
    to design re-usable and scalable modules.


11. Able
    to anticipate common exceptions and design defensive mechanisms.


12. Able
    to optimize the design to achieve maximum performance consuming minimal
    resources.


13. Considers
    SLA (Service Level Agreement) and OLA (Organization Level Agreement)
    before designing Job schedule.

Problem Solving

1. Solves
   problems on their own merit.


2. Clarifies
   requirements and asserts them in unit tests when necessary.


3. Takes
   an iterative incremental approach to solving the problem.


4. Is
   able to communicate and discuss the problem effectively with the team.


5. Able
   to re-create the problematic scenario and suggest ideal solution.


6. Able
   to prioritize the problems by understanding the impact. "

Whats in it for you?

At Tesco, we are committed to providing the best for you. 
 
As a result, our colleagues enjoy a unique, differentiated, market- competitive reward package, based on the current industry practices, for all the work they put into serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day. 
 
Our Tesco Rewards framework consists of pillars - Fixed Pay, Incentives, and Benefits.  
 
Total Rewards offered at Tesco is determined by four principles -simple, fair, competitive, and sustainable. 
 
Salary - Your fixed pay is the guaranteed pay as per your contract of employment. 
 
Leave & Time-off - Colleagues are entitled to 30 days of leave (18 days of Earned Leave, 12 days of Casual/Sick Leave) and 10 national and festival holidays, as per the company’s policy. 
 
Making Retirement Tension-FreeSalary - In addition to Statutory retirement beneets, Tesco enables colleagues to participate in voluntary programmes like NPS and VPF. 
 
Health is Wealth - Tesco promotes programmes that support a culture of health and wellness including insurance for colleagues and their family. Our medical insurance provides coverage for dependents including parents or in-laws. 
 
Mental Wellbeing - We offer mental health support through self-help tools, community groups, ally networks, face-to-face counselling, and more for both colleagues and dependents.  
 
Financial Wellbeing - Through our financial literacy partner, we offer one-to-one financial coaching at discounted rates, as well as salary advances on earned wages upon request.  
 
Save As You Earn (SAYE) - Our SAYE programme allows colleagues to transition from being employees to Tesco shareholders through a structured 3-year savings plan.  
 
Physical Wellbeing - Our green campus promotes physical wellbeing with facilities that include a cricket pitch, football field, badminton and volleyball courts, along with indoor games, encouraging a healthier lifestyle. 

About Us

Tesco in Bengaluru is a multi-disciplinary team serving our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day across markets. Our goal is to create a sustainable competitive advantage for Tesco by standardising processes, delivering cost savings, enabling agility through technological solutions, and empowering our colleagues to do even more for our customers. With cross-functional expertise, a wide network of teams, and strong governance, we reduce complexity, thereby offering high-quality services for our customers. 
 
Tesco in Bengaluru, established in 2004 to enable standardisation and build centralised capabilities and competencies, makes the experience better for our millions of customers worldwide and simpler for over 3,30,000 colleagues 
 
Tesco Technology
 
Today, our Technology team consists of over 5,000 experts spread across the UK, Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and India. In India, our Technology division includes teams dedicated to Engineering, Product, Programme, Service Desk and Operations, Systems Engineering, Security & Capability, Data Science, and other roles. 
 
At Tesco, our retail platform comprises a wide array of capabilities, value propositions, and products, essential for crafting exceptional retail experiences for our customers and colleagues across all channels and markets. This platform encompasses all aspects of our operations - from identifying and authenticating customers, managing products, pricing, promoting, enabling customers to discover products, facilitating payment, and ensuring delivery. By developing a comprehensive Retail Platform, we ensure that as customer touchpoints and devices evolve, we can consistently deliver seamless experiences. This adaptability allows us to respond flexibly without the need to overhaul our technology, thanks to the creation of capabilities we have built. 

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