Job Description

Tesco India • Bengaluru, Karnataka, India • Hybrid • Full-Time • Permanent • Working hours 45 • Apply by 30-Mar-2026
About the role

• Take a business problem and come up with the technical strategy (push vs pull etc real time vs batches sync vs async) within the team high level design and lead the implementation
• Need minimal directions or guidance and collaborate with SDEs across teams working on the same or similar business problem
• You showcase exemplary behaviour in your work – your design delivery code processes all set examples for your team
• Influence your team’s technical and business strategy by suggesting novel approaches
• Able to communicate your ideas and get feedback from different stakeholders and drive convergence to achieve the right outcomes
• Proactively mentor the rest of the team and help in hiring
• Ensure design or architectural deficiencies are addressed and routinely simplify integration of your peer teams with your team’s software
• Consistently lead delivery of valuable features
• Continually propose and drive process improvements
• Help elaborate requirements where necessary

What is 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.
You will be responsible for

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

· Profile and optimise code

· Understand threads threading model and concurrent programming

· Comfortably test drive any feature/comfortable with TDD cycle

· Demonstrate a good knowledge of other programming languages & paradigms and when to apply them

· Comfortably debug/find complex problems

Design

· Identify and apply appropriate design patterns to problems

· Comfortably develop large features

· Understand Idempotence

· Actively practice the boy scout principle leaves design code in a better state than when arrived

· Demonstrate a good understanding of cohesion SOLID and how to apply

· Understand importance of domain model and can coherently model a problem domain within a given context

· Anticipate medium term (3-6 month) vectors of change and designs and abstracts accordingly

· Understand and appreciate simplicity and the value of removing code

· 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

· Automate security scanning and performance testing as part of build

Infrastructure

· Demonstrate a good grasp of multiple operating systems

· Demonstrate a good grasp of scripting techniques

· Demonstrate expertise in one database & good grasp of multiple data storage paradigms and when to apply other technologies

· Understand and can automate PaaS technologies

· Understand when to apply appropriate infrastructure technologies

Security

· Write secure code by default

· Use tools to perform deep security probes

· Understand server hardening

You will need

Java Spring Boot Spring Cloud Stream Kafka NoSQL (preferably Couchbase) Azure Kubernetes GitHub DevOps tools like Jenkins etc

• Strong knowledge of design patterns, data structures, algorithms, and SOLID principles.
• Excellent hands-on experience with Java 8, Java 17 (and above).
• Deep practical experience with Microservices architecture, Spring Boot, and Spring WebFlux.
• Solid working experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
• Strong proficiency with NoSQL databases (Couchbase, MongoDB, Cassandra) and SQL databases (PostgreSQL).
• Proven experience building and deploying cloud-native solutions on AWS and/or Azure.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Effective communication skills and the ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams.

Other Skills:

• CI/CD tools: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD
• Security and quality tools: Snyk, Sonar
• API Testing: Postman
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and best practices.

Nice-to-Have:

• Experience with Splunk, ELK Stack for log monitoring.
• Experience with NewRelic, AppDynamics, or DynaTrace for application performance monitoring.

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.