Software Engineer - Backend (Store Rollout & Observability)

Tesco Technology Hungary operates in the retail domain and develops a Retail Platform to support software rollouts and observability across thousands of retail stores.

• 4+ years of experience in software engineering
• Strong Java development skills with Spring Framework
• Basic system design skillset
• Knowledge of event-driven systems and event sourcing patterns
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing

Nice to have:

• Familiarity with SQL databases and distributed systems concepts
• Knowledge of Kubernetes and Docker
• Experience in monitoring and observability tools
• Experience with observability frameworks and standards such as OpenTelemetry
• Hands-on experience with monitoring platforms like Prometheus, Grafana, Victoria Metrics, or New Relic

• Designing and implementing metrics, logging, tracing, and telemetry solutions across cloud and edge components
• Building monitoring pipelines, dashboards, and alerting frameworks for deployment health and store operations
• Defining and maintaining Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and reliability metrics
• Creating operational analytics for deployment performance, software rollout progress, failure detection, and capacity planning
• Integrating telemetry from cloud services, edge devices, deployment agents, and infrastructure into centralized monitoring
• Building automated detection and root-cause analysis using modern observability tools
• Developing self-service dashboards and reporting for engineering, support, and operations teams
• Driving observability standards, instrumentation practices, and monitoring strategies across the Retail Platform

This role requires the candidate to be based in or near Kraków, Poland, as approximately 60% of the workweek involves on-site collaboration at office locations or local sites, with the remainder remote.