We are currently working on several exciting projects, including expanding our toolset to new domains, developing an intelligent digital assistant, and simplifying the self-help experience for colleagues. Our work directly supports Tesco's vision of empowering colleagues with intuitive, accessible, and effective solutions to enhance their everyday tasks.
We’re looking for a highly experienced Full Stack Engineer (SDE 3) to design, develop, and scale intelligent web applications that leverage modern frontend and backend frameworks along with Generative AI capabilities. You’ll work closely with product, design, and machine learning teams to deliver secure, performant, and scalable applications that redefine user experience and productivity. 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
- Mentor junior engineers, lead code reviews, and contribute to technical design documents.
- Partner with product managers and designers to define technical requirements and user journeys.
- Drive technical discussions and decisions across cross-functional teams.
- Take a defined problem and come up with the design / implementation with minimal guidance
- Have good domain knowledge and deliver with more autonomy
- Continuously Learn and apply technologies, techniques and methodologies that add value to the team and the overall portfolio.
- Fully participate in team retrospectives and other team ceremonies
- Identify value of tasks & always work on the highest priority items
- The role expects high standard of engineering excellence with practical experience in building and maintaining internet-scale applications and services.
- Nurture highly effective relationships with internal business partners such as product management, technical teams, systems operations, and service and support.
- Part of OnCall ROTA to support the application 24/7.
You will need
- Atleast 6+ years of professional experience as a full stack developer.
- Deep expertise in React (Hooks, Context, Redux or equivalent) and Node.js (Express/NestJS).
- Strong experience building and consuming RESTful API’s.
- Fair understanding of LLM-based applications, prompt engineering, and RAG pipelines.
- Proficiency with relational and NoSQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, CouchBase).
- Familiarity with DevOps pipelines, CI/CD (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins).
- Strong grounding in data privacy, security, and compliance, especially with AI.
Behavioral Elements
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to analyse and infer requirements
- Excellent organizational and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to cope with rapidly changing priorities and a continual backlog of work.
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.