Join the team behind Price Service—a mission-critical HTTP API powering pricing and promotions across all of Tesco’s channels. From tills to websites and everything in between, our work touches the lives of over 28 million UK shoppers every week, with global reach on the horizon.
We’re building a robust, internet-facing API that runs both in stores and in the cloud, designed to support future innovation at scale. This means solving complex distributed systems challenges, ensuring high availability, and optimizing performance. Concepts like the CAP theorem aren’t just theory here—they’re part of our daily engineering conversations.
Our stack includes Java, Vert.x, RxJava, Groovy, Couchbase, and Kafka, built using Terraform, running in Kubernetes on Azure utilising GitHub Actions pipelines. We follow Agile principles, adapting Kanban and other methodologies to fit the team’s needs.
Collaboration is at the heart of our culture—pair programming is common, and all code is reviewed via GitHub.
Design and implement end-to-end systems using your deep JVM and java ecosystem expertise.
Translate product requirements into well-structured, maintainable code.
Write test-driven features and follow the TDD and BDD cycle.
Apply SOLID principles and cohesive design to build scalable software.
Design, build, deploy and maintain the required infrastructure
Collaborate with product stakeholders to shape and refine features.
Support production systems, resolve incidents, and conduct root cause analysis.
Mentor and support fellow engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning.
Share knowledge across the wider engineering community.
Prototype and evaluate new tools and technologies.
Strong experience with Java 8+
Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, etc.).
Proficiency with both SQL and NoSQL databases.
Proven ability to scale systems effectively.
Familiarity with Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall).
Exposure to reactive programming paradigms.
Bonus: Experience with eCommerce or search systems
One of the world’s largest retailers of consumer goods from food to fashion. Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day in our stores and online is at the heart of everything we do.
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
