Tesco’s Behavioural Data Platform (BDP) is a high-scale, real-time platform that captures and processes behavioural data from web, mobile, and in-store systems to power analytics and customer experiences. It enables teams to access and act on unified data streams in real time, driving faster, data-driven decision making across the organisation.
We’re looking for a Software Development Engineer II to join our collaborative, self-organising team. You’ll contribute to the design and development of high-performance event-driven services that enable personalised customer experiences to millions of users by capturing user behavioural data. This is an excellent opportunity to grow your backend engineering skills, gain hands-on experience with modern technologies, and contribute to real-world systems that operate at scale.
• Developing features for a backend event-driven platform using Java and Spring Boot
• Pairing with more senior engineers to design, implement, test, and ship code
• Learning to use observability tools like New Relic and Splunk to monitor live systems
• Participating in planning sessions and team discussions to understand requirements and contribute ideas
• Writing automated test suites to ensure code correctness and maintainability
• Collaborating with team members to review code and improve development practices
• Developing an understanding of distributed systems, data processing at scale, and performance optimisation
• Creating, maintaining, and deploying applications using CI/CD pipelines
• Gaining hands-on experience with Kafka, Kubernetes, and managing distributed services
• A working knowledge of Java and an interest in backend development
• Familiarity with object-oriented programming principles
• Some practical experience building event-driven services and/or REST APIs
• A willingness to learn and collaborate in a team environment
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to ask questions, seek feedback, and share what you're learning
Nice to have:
• Exposure to Spring Boot, NoSQL databases, or cloud services
• Curiosity about performance, scalability, and observability in large-scale systems
• Familiarity with Git, CI/CD pipelines, and containerisation
• Some experience working with platforms like Kafka
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Founded in 1919 by Jack Cohen using the £30 he received on leaving the Royal Flying Corp, we’ve come a long way from his small market stall in East London. Today over 400,000 colleagues work across our stores, office, distribution and customer engagement centres in the UK, Europe and Asia.
Share our passion for the people, products and places that make us great, and we can offer the right support to develop your skills. If you’re looking for the perfect work-life balance, a collaborative culture and flexible ways of working, find your opportunity to get on at www.tesco-careers.com
