Tesco India  •  Bengaluru, Karnataka, India  •  Hybrid  •  Full-Time  •  Permanent  •  Apply by 31-Jul-2025 About the role Software Development Engineers (SDEs) are the creative minds developing the software applications that make life easier for customers. Responsible for the entire development and support process for a software programme. Your applications make previously complex tasks simple with the impact ranging from saving time, effort or money to re-defining normal 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 Technical Leadership & Design: - Lead the design and implementation of the platform and customer facing capabilities, contributing to the overall system architecture. - Collaborate with product managers and other developers to design robust and scalable platform. Code & Development: - Design, build and maintain high-performance, reusable and reliable code. - Implement new features in production, ensuring code quality and adherence to best practices. Engineering Practices: - Ensure code quality to uphold the platform's robustness, usability, and reliability. - Implement test strategies, including functional, regression, and integration testing, to ensure consistent platform performance and user satisfaction. Infrastructure and Security: - Collaborate with cloud platform & security teams to design the platform across both private and public cloud environments. - Ensure the system's security by writing secure code, implementing a layered defense model and applying DevSecOps practices. Technology Evangelism: - Discover, evaluate and evangelize new technologies to maximize the developer productivity.
You will need - Expertise in programming languages such as Java, with hands-on experience in developing scalable, high-performance applications. - Strong solutioning skills to design simpler and maintainable solutions for complex business needs. - Proficient in writing clean, maintainable code and applying best practices in software design, testing, and deployment. - Experienced in Infrastructure-As-Code tools (e.g., Terraform) and building CI/CD pipelines. - Nice to have understanding of Kubernetes, containerization and physical architecture aspects like networking, DNS etc - Expertise in using AI coding tools to drive efficiency.
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.