Software Development Engineer II

About the Role

As a Software Development Engineer 2, you are in a mid-level Individual Contributor role at Tesco. Engineers at this level will continue their career development and show potential for an SDE3 role. Your impact reaches across a team, and you provide technical leadership of medium to large features. You will begin to produce your own work by understanding the problems that the team faces and will support other engineers with their delivery and development. You prioritize sharing your skills and knowledge and the quality of your work. You understand and apply best practices within Tesco and across the industry.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership of medium to large features, participating in their design and taking accountability for their delivery.
• Implement and ship end-to-end stories.
• Understand deeper problems within your domain and may be considered an expert in a specific part.
• Build and prioritize your own work by understanding team problems and proposing, implementing, and delivering solutions.
• Be aware of short-term and long-term goals across your product.
• Utilize data-driven decision-making techniques within your team to encourage optimal outcomes, accepting appropriate trade-offs.
• Support other engineers in their delivery and take the lead on major components or small services as appropriate.
• Display a degree of ownership for the work conducted by the team and know when to seek support.
• Identify risks and raise them as appropriate.
• Support, coach, and mentor those around you.
• Assist junior engineers with their onboarding process and help them get up to speed.
• Share skills and technical knowledge across your team.
• Contribute to raising the quality bar of your team’s codebase by producing high-quality code and peer reviewing code written by other team members.
• Proactively provide constructive and useful feedback to other team members on their code.
• Understand and implement best practices across the industry and Tesco architectural standards.
• Be aware of best testing and deployment strategies in the industry and have a view on their suitability for your team.

Key People and Teams You Will Work With

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

Requirements & Tech Stack

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

Qualifications

• This role is for a mid-level Individual Contributor.