Senior Software Engineer - Backend (Colleague Benefits)

Tesco Technology Hungary operates in the Colleague Benefits domain, a global enterprise API enabling secure and easy access to colleague benefits data across multiple Tesco payroll systems and countries.

• Around 6+ years of experience as a Software Engineer within the JVM ecosystem.
• Experience working in an Agile environment.
• Excellent understanding of Java language and frameworks, with good knowledge of underlying abstraction layers.
• Demonstrated technical leadership.
• Ability to work with minimal direction and collaborate across teams.
• Experience with Java 21, SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Knowledge of Splunk, New Relic, Microsoft Azure, OpenShift.
• Experience with RESTful web services and web application frameworks (Spring preferred).
• Proficiency with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with microservices and distributed systems.
• Experience with testing tools such as JUnit, Spock, Mockito, WireMock.
• Knowledge of Git, Maven and/or Gradle, and CI/CD tooling (e.g., GitHub Actions).

• Be a coder; review and contribute code.
• Focus on performance, availability, reliability, and security.
• Contribute to the definition of features for services owned by your team.
• Effectively communicate your and your team’s progress to your team members, your Manager, and wider Tesco colleagues.
• Take a business problem and develop the technical strategy, high-level design, and lead implementation.
• Collaborate with SDEs across teams working on similar business problems.
• Propose and drive process improvements.
• Help elaborate requirements where necessary.
• Demonstrate technical leadership and exemplary behavior in design, delivery, code, and processes.
• Influence team’s technical and business strategy by suggesting novel approaches.
• Communicate ideas and get feedback from different stakeholders to achieve the right outcomes.

This role requires candidates to be based in or near Kraków, Poland, as 60% of the workweek is spent collaborating onsite at office locations or local sites.