Software Development Engineer II

About the role

Role responsibilities

• Develop Tesco UK mobile app capabilities that improve and personalize customer experience and ease of use in store.
• Work with a GraphQL backend and collaborate with Android and iOS developers and native development and platform teams.
• Provide mobile context for technology choices and address device limitations, network constraints, and fragmentation.
• Prototype solutions for ambiguous situations and outline paths from prototype to product.
• Provide technical leadership, develop colleagues’ technical knowledge, and improve team engineering practices.

Qualifications and experience

• Experience architecting complex mobile applications and extensive commercial React Native software development experience.
• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent; firm understanding of software development principles and mobile platform capabilities and limitations.
• Mobile accessibility experience; experience with the full development lifecycle from design and coding through deployment and maintenance.
• Understanding of or exposure to GraphQL API integration; exposure to the DevOps model.
• Experience in Lean and Agile environments and understanding of BDD, ATDD, and TDD principles.
• Teamwork, stakeholder influence, self-management, proactive ownership, relationship-building, and ability to drive solutions through production.

Work arrangement

• Tesco describes its work model as hybrid: colleagues spend 60% of the week collaborating in person at offices or local sites and the rest working remotely.

Rewards and benefits

• Tesco describes a rewards package with fixed pay, incentives, and benefits, including 30 days of leave and 10 national and festival holidays.
• Benefits described include retirement savings programmes, medical insurance for colleagues and family, mental health support, financial coaching, salary advances, and campus sports facilities.

About Tesco