Job offer description

The Role

 

As a Software Development Manager, you will be an expert in different front-end technologies and help the team develop software that helps both our customers and colleagues in their daily lives. You will be responsible for the entire development and support process for a software programme.

Built on a brand-new cloud platform running on NodeJS, and using ReactJS we are leveraging API’s allowing us to be completely stateless.

The team works according to Agile principles, adapting Kanban and other techniques as appropriate to succeed. Pairing is very common and all code is reviewed via Github. We are embracing continuous delivery principles, but it’s a journey of continuous improvement to get there.

 

What will you do?

 

  • Foster careers of engineers reporting into you by finding opportunity for growth, coaching, addressing concerns and if necessary, implementing performance management.
  • Build and nurture effective, high performant teams that consistently deliver quality software
  • Represent team within wider technical discussions across different stakeholder groups, and be effective in doing so by constantly broadening your understanding of our technology landscape.
  • Take ownership for the delivery of specific outcomes, or work across wider groups in conjunction with programme management to deliver more significant outcomes.
  • Remain a hands on coder. Contribute code during team sprints.
  • Lead and evangelise team focus on performance, availability, reliability and security.
  • Continuously improve yourself and your team by suggesting and helping implement new Engineering processes and practices.
  •  Effectively communicate your and your team’s progress to your team members, your Manager and wider Tesco colleagues.

 

Your background

 

  • Previous experience with management of software engineering teams of 10-15 people
  • Problem solving, analysis and computational skills. You are comfortable designing systems and reasoning about them.
  • Designing and developing systems for high availability and scalability
  • Experience of operating in the cloud
  • Understanding NoSQL technologies
  • Writing standards compliant HTML5 and CSS3
  • Strong native JavaScript skills in the browser and server, including OO JavaScript. Exposure to ES6 is advantageous.
  • Exposure to a variety of JavaScript frameworks and libraries: React, Backbone; jQuery, Underscore and unit testing with Jasmine or similar
  • Experience of using Node.js to create high traffic websites using Express.js, Sails, Koa or similar
  • Experience in Lean and Agile environments and understanding of principles behind methodologies such as: BDD, ATDD and TDD

 

What’s in it for you

 

Tesco is a diverse and exciting employer, dedicated to being #aplacetogeton, providing career defining opportunities to all of our colleagues. If you chose to join our business, we will provide you with:

 

  • A learning culture and excellent opportunities to develop your career within your chosen field or something altogether new
  • Varied and exciting projects to play a part in – there is always something new and exciting in the pipeline
  • Competitive salary and benefits package

 

If that sounds exciting, then we'd love to hear from you.

Job details
Sector:
Administrative and support service activities
Occupation field:
Engineering professionals (excluding electrotechnology)
Work experience:
Work experience is required
Language skills:
  • English
  • Very good
Salary range:
Not provided
Date of expiry:

About company

As one of the world’s largest retailers and the largest private employer in the United Kingdom, Tesco serves millions of customers a week in our stores and online. In Europe we operate in Hungary, Czech Republic and Slovakia, offering great value to our customers every day. Our Operations in Hungary has been serving shoppers since 1995.To standardize processes, reduce cost to serve, enable… Find out more