Principal Software Dev Engineer Job in Bengaluru at Tesco

Tesco is hiring for the role of Principal Software Dev Engineer!

Responsibilities of the Candidate:

• Show perseverance and patience in driving large, complex or difficult initiatives from inception to completion, working with and influencing the engineering, product, program and business teams in Tesco
• Convert ambiguous and complex business problems into simple technical solutions.
• Influence build vs buy decisions, deprecate creaking software/applications and lead significant refactoring. I make the right trade-offs to influence the roadmap and sequencing of work to deliver early and often.
• Get hands-on with design and coding to resolve hard problems that have a long-term impact on a product or technology implementation
• Drive one or more areas
• Guide one or more areas and define the strategic design keeping security, scalability, extensibility and reusability in mind
• Contribute to Tesco’s Inner Source Platform, acting as maintainer or contributor to one or more projects, whilst influencing direction and driving adoption.
• Have great communication and influencing skills to resolve disputes and to lead stakeholders to appropriate decisions with data points and foresight.
• Have sufficient breadth and depth of technical knowledge to influence senior leaders on engineering strategy
• Write critical path code, having a good appreciation of the whole stack and SDLC using continuous deployment pipelines, cloud infrastructure automation, monitoring and alerting with an agile DevOps mind-set.
• Create strategy documents, designs and code which are exemplary and serve as a role model to fellow PSDEs and SDEs.
• Innovate and keep abreast of industry trends and competition, grasping new paradigms and languages quickly
• Routinely come up with PoCs to evaluate approaches or technology choices to enable or accelerate programmes.
• Guide SDEs
• Guide SDEs in one or more functional areas, under one or more HoSDs/Directors or under a distinct functional area such as Azure, Eventing, ReactJS development and concepts of modern UI development.
• Set up knowledge transfer sessions on specific areas or practices
• Lead constructive code and design reviews, probing assumptions, highlighting risks and leaving behind better quality repositories.
• Contribute to the development of SDEs, ensuring that they reach their full potential
• Help with Organization Goals
• Help with hiring both engineering ICs and Managers
• Calibrate assessors and strengthen the assessment process for Tesco
• Raise the bar for coding and design to ensure it is high and keeps going up as best practices and expectations evolve

Requirements:

• Experience with best practice methodologies
• Experience in one or more programming languages
• Experience in People & Team management
• Written and verbal communication skills
  Problem-solving, analysis, and computational skills
• Innovative approach to problem-solving
• Customer focus