Software Engineer - Backend (Store Rollout & Observability)

Our colleagues work with one goal in mind, helping to make every day a little better for our customers, colleagues and communities all over the world. Tesco champions a balance that lets you thrive both in and out of work, with 60% of the week spent collaborating on-site and rest remotely. Tesco is committed to diversity and is a Disability Confident Employer providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process.

• 4+ years of experience in software engineering.
• Strong Java development skills (including Spring Framework).
• Basic system design skills.
• 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 modern observability frameworks and standards such as OpenTelemetry.
• Hands-on experience with monitoring and visualization platforms such as 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 to provide actionable insights into deployment health, device status, and store operations.
• Defining and maintaining Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and reliability metrics for mission-critical deployment services.
• 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 components into centralized monitoring platforms.
• Building automated detection and root-cause analysis capabilities using modern observability practices and tooling.
• Developing self-service dashboards and reporting for engineering, support, and operations teams.
• Driving observability standards, instrumentation practices, and monitoring strategies across the Retail Platform ecosystem.

This role requires you to be based in or near Kraków, spending 60% (3 days) of the week collaborating in-office or local sites and the rest remotely.