Software Development Engineer II

About the Role

• Mid-level Individual Contributor role at Tesco.
• Stepping stone towards SDE3.
• Impact reaches across a team.
• Provides technical leadership of medium to large features.
• Starts to produce own work by understanding team problems.
• Supports other engineers with delivery and development.
• Prioritizes sharing skills and knowledge.
• Prioritizes quality of work.
• Understands and applies best practices within Tesco and across the industry.

Key Responsibilities

• Follows the Business Code of Conduct and acts with integrity and due diligence.
• Provides technical leadership of medium to large features, participating in their design and taking accountability for their delivery.
• Implements and ships end-to-end stories.
• Starts to understand deeper problems in their part of the business.
• Likely to be considered an expert in a specific part of their domain.
• Builds and prioritizes own work by understanding team problems and proposing, implementing, and delivering solutions.
• Aware of short-term and long-term goals across the product.
• Utilizes data-driven decision-making techniques within the team to encourage optimal outcomes.
• Supports other engineers in their delivery.
• Takes the lead on major components or small services as appropriate.
• Displays a degree of ownership for the work conducted by the team.
• Knows when to seek support.
• Identifies and raises risks.
• Supports, coaches, and mentors those around them.
• Assists junior engineers with onboarding and helps them get up to speed.
• Acts as a point of advice and help for individuals across the team.
• Prioritizes sharing skills and technical knowledge across the team.
• Contributes to raising the quality bar of the team’s codebase through personal code production and peer code reviews.
• Provides constructive and useful feedback to other team members on their code.
• Applies best practices across the industry and Tesco architectural standards to their work.
• Is aware of industry best testing and deployment strategies and has a view on their suitability for the team.

Key People and Teams

• Product teams
• Engineering leadership
• Programme teams
• Key business stakeholders
• 3rd party engineering, product, and programme teams (when applicable)

Skills & Experience

• Programming
• System Design
• Demonstrated experience designing, developing, and running components of software systems.
• Development Practise
• Infrastructure
• Experience implementing common design and architectural patterns.
• Software Security
• Experience supporting other engineers in their work.
• Operations and Maintenance
• Core Technology
• Development Lifecycle
• Product Methodologies
• Retail Technology Awareness
• Communication & Influencing
• Data Analytics & Insights
• Strategic Thinking & Problem Solving
• Finance & Procurement
• Curiosity & Learning
• Embracing and Enabling Change
• Successfully had impact across a software engineering team.

Work Environment

• Hybrid model: 60% in-person collaboration, remainder remote.
• Employs a flexible approach to work arrangements.

Note: The provided text does not explicitly state required years of experience for this role.