Tesco

Software Development Manager - Platform Engineering

Tesco  •  Hungary (Onsite)  •  2 hours ago
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Job Description

Tesco Hungary Full-Time Working hours 40 Apply by 01-Jun-2028

About the role
Our platform is the primary traffic control layer for Tesco Technology, handling over 100 billion requests
per month at five nines uptime. It connects thousands of internal systems, secures external ingress, and
proxies Store-to-Cloud traffic from 50,000+ tills and devices across the UK, ROI, and Central Europe.
The platform is built on an Envoy control plane and a large distributed data plane, and is continuing to
evolve as new traffic patterns emerge across the organisation, including AI and agentic use cases.
You will lead the Budapest team responsible for building and running this platform in close partnership
with the London team. This is a hands-on engineering management role with a strong operational focus:
you will be accountable for reliability, incident response, observability, safe change, and continuous
improvement, alongside delivery and people leadership. We do not separate builders from operators, so
the role requires strong engineering judgement, comfort with production responsibility, and a clear
sense of ownership for platform outcomes end to end

What is in it for you
Tesco is a diverse and exciting employer, dedicated to being #aplacetogeton, providing career-defining opportunities to all of our colleagues. If you chose to join our business, we will provide you with: 
 
  • Permanent contract from the go – as a sign of our trust in your abilities 
  • Yearly salary bonus – based on both individual and business performance 
  • Extensive private healthcare - complex care package including a wide range of specialists, medical services, and free flu vaccination 
  • Cafeteria  
  • Relocation Help - professional service to secure relevant working permits and other necessary documents 
  • Learning opportunities - certified technical training and learning platforms like Udemy and Pluralsight 
  • Referral Bonus 
  • Learning culture and excellent opportunities to develop your career within your chosen field or something altogether new 
  • Varied and exciting projects to play a part in – there is always something new and exciting in the pipeline 
 
If that sounds exciting, then we'd love to hear from you. 

You will be responsible for
Lead and develop a team of engineers working on a mission critical traffic management platform,
creating clarity on priorities, raising the quality bar, and helping the team grow in technical depth and
operational maturity.

Own delivery for the team, balancing reliability, platform evolution, and the practical needs of product
engineering teams using the platform.

Shape how the team designs, builds, and operates the platform, from architecture and delivery practices
through to observability, incident response, post-incident learning, and continuous improvement.
Set a high bar for engineering quality and operational discipline through clear technical direction,
thoughtful prioritisation, and strong execution.

Drive a culture of safe change, measurable reliability, and blameless incident management, ensuring
the team treats production as a core part of the engineering problem rather than a downstream concern.
Work closely with engineers and leaders across Budapest and London to align roadmap, execution, and
operating model around a shared platform direction.

Contribute to the longer term evolution of the platform as the scope broadens beyond traditional API
traffic management into newer communication patterns, including AI and agentic traffic.
Hire well, coach actively, and create an environment where strong engineers can take ownership, grow
quickly, and do the best work of their careers.

You will need
We are looking for an engineering manager who has led strong engineers in a platform, infrastructure,
or reliability-oriented environment and is comfortable operating close to technical detail.

You should bring sound judgement in distributed systems, production operations, and incident
leadership, with the ability to make sensible trade-offs under pressure.

Experience with traffic management, API gateways, service to service communication, or adjacent
distributed infrastructure is highly relevant, but we are not trying to reduce the role to a narrow checklist
of tools.

You should be credible with senior engineers, practical in how you drive delivery, and thoughtful in how
you build team culture and operating rhythm.

This role will suit someone who enjoys leading through ambiguity, improving systems through iteration,
and taking real responsibility for platform outcomes in production.

About us
Tesco Business Solution and Tesco Technology were established in Budapest in 2019, supporting the Tesco retail business in Central Europe and the Tesco Group. TBST and Tesco Technology are part of our global business services and technology organisations within Tesco. 
 
In the UK, Ireland, India, Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic we operate to offer great value to our customers every day. 
 
In Budapest, our Technology hub currently employs more than 200 – and a growing number – of highly trained software engineers and managers who are implementing global software development projects across fulfilment, supplier and product management, online and in-store loss prevention, and our online grocery sites. 
 
Our goal is to bring significant changes to the market by using the latest technologies. We are focusing on a large variety of modern technologies from the backend space and frontend to UX, UI and even data science and engineering. 
 
We are aiming to drive business value through innovation and to create an organization that fundamentally transforms the retail environment. 
 
We put accountability and ownership on the individuals and their teams in order to run a horizontal organization where teamwork is extremely important. With an end-to-end approach, we offer our colleagues opportunities for self-development and career growth. 
 
Our colleagues are the key to our success at Tesco. We foster an environment of openness and collaboration. We draw from the diversity, knowledge and experience of our colleagues. It is all about equal opportunities, no matter who you are, or where you come from, you can get on at Tesco. 
 
Our teams consist of individuals who can truly make a difference. Focussing on building a world-class business services centre alongside cutting-edge technology capability, they are working towards our goal of serving our customers and colleagues a little better every day. 
 
We are expanding our operations locally and we are looking for the best talent. 
Tesco

About Tesco

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

Industry
Retail & Ecommerce
Company Size
10,000+ employees
Headquarters
Welwyn Garden City, GB
Year Founded
Unknown
Website
tesco.com
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