Software Development Engineer III

Tesco India  •  Bengaluru, Karnataka, India  •  Hybrid  •  Full-Time  •  Permanent  •  Apply by 31-Oct-2025 About the role Software Development Engineers 3 are senior most engineer in a Team, they are responsible for the entire development and support process for a product. Your applications make previously complex tasks simple with the impact ranging from saving time, effort or money to re-defining normal . they should be well versed with working in high scale system with sub 30 milliseconds latency . They are the final authority in design and keeping high engineering standards with in team and also influence the teams and orgs around them. 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 • Take a business problem and come up with the technical strategy (push vs pull etc, real time vs batches, sync vs async) within the team, high level design and lead the implementation • Need minimal directions or guidance and collaborate with SDEs across teams working on the same or similar business problem • You showcase exemplary behaviour in your work – your design, delivery, code, processes all set examples for your team • Influence your team’s technical and business strategy by suggesting novel approaches • Able to communicate your ideas and get feedback from different stakeholders and drive convergence to achieve the right outcomes• Proactively mentor the rest of the team and help in hiring • Ensure design or architectural deficiencies are addressed and routinely simplify integration of your peer teams with your team’s software• Consistently lead delivery of valuable features • Continually propose and drive process improvements • Help elaborate requirements where necessary • • Programming You will need • Strong Software Engineering skills, with experience of different programming languages and a excellent grasp of Java • A background or strong understanding of the retail sector, logistics and/or ecommerce would be advantageous but is not required. • Awareness of emerging Architecture and tooling • Ability to measure and improve performance of complex distributed systems. • Demonstratable experience of building scalable and resilient systems. • Experience building solutions that run in the cloud, ideally Azure. • Should have hands-on experience in:

•  Spring boot 3.0 , Azure, Kafka, Microservice architecture
• Terraform, Postgres, Couchbase or other NoSql DB.

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.