Software Development Engineer III

Tesco India  •  Bengaluru, Karnataka, India  •  Full-Time  •  Permanent  •  Apply by 12-Oct-2025 About the role As SDE3, you will drive the technical strategy and execution for complex business problems, delivering scalable and reliable systems. You will lead by example in design, coding, and best practices, while mentoring peers and influencing technical direction across teams. This role demands strong expertise in distributed systems, deep hands-on development skills, and the ability to simplify complex solutions while maintaining performance, scalability, and security. 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 Define the technical strategy for business problems (push vs pull, real-time vs batch, sync vs async), lead high-level design, and drive implementation. Collaborate with SDEs across teams to align on technical solutions and integration. Lead by example through high-quality design, code, and processes, setting benchmarks for the team. Influence technical and business strategy by proposing novel approaches and simplifications. Communicate complex technical ideas clearly with stakeholders, drive feedback loops, and achieve convergence on solutions. Mentor and coach engineers, support hiring efforts, and grow the technical strength of the team. Identify and address design or architectural deficiencies; simplify peer team integrations. Consistently deliver valuable features end-to-end, from requirements to production. Drive process improvements in development, testing, and delivery. Collaborate with Product Owners to elaborate requirements and deliver business value.
You will need Programming & Development

• Deep expertise in Java, IDEs, frameworks, and toolsets.
• Strong in data structures, algorithms, multithreading, and concurrent programming.
• Skilled in TDD/BDD, comfortable writing testable and maintainable code.
• Ability to profile, debug, and optimize complex systems.
• Good knowledge of multiple languages and paradigms, and when to apply them.

System Design & Architecture

• Apply design patterns (CQRS, eventual consistency, etc.) effectively.
• Strong understanding of SOLID principles and domain modeling.
• Design with idempotency, scalability, and performance in mind.
• Anticipate medium-term (3–6 month) changes and design abstractions accordingly.
• Deep knowledge of distributed systems, scaling, replication, and sharding.
• Expertise in Microservices Architecture and API design.

Development Practices

• Automate build, test, and deployment pipelines (CI/CD).
• Integrate security scanning, performance testing, and monitoring into workflows.
• Champion “automate everything by default” culture.
• Infrastructure & Cloud
• Expertise in at least one database, with knowledge of multiple data storage paradigms (SQL, NoSQL, caching, messaging).
• Good grasp of operating systems and scripting techniques.
• Strong experience with cloud platforms (Azure preferred; AWS/GCP a plus).
• Familiar with DevSecOps practices and tools.

Security

• Write secure code by default, proactively addressing vulnerabilities.
• Use tools to perform deep security probes and reviews.

Collaboration & Leadership

• Lead group design discussions and present ideas effectively.
• Mentor and develop peers, contributing to overall team growth.
• Deep domain understanding to work effectively with Product Owners.
• Share knowledge with the wider engineering community.

Innovation

• Evaluate, prototype, and introduce new tools/methodologies when appropriate.
• Balance innovation with practicality, avoiding unnecessary complexity.

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.