Software Development Manager

About the role

Should have experience managing multiple stakeholders and working collaboratively with them to achieve the outcome

Good experience in handling distributed teams across geographies.

Is able to drive continuous improvement of engineering practices and efficiency of development within the team and foster innovation.

Is accountable for the slices they own in the program and proactively identifies risks proposes mitigations and gets them reviewed with stakeholders.

Ability to work with stake holders on RFP and help drive technical evaluation and decisions .

You will be responsible for

Key Responsibilities

* Hire and Grow a team of High Performing Engineers.

* Motivate Mentor Coach to develop engineers into Leaders/SMEs

* Develop new and Improve existing processes to ensure smooth functioning of the team

* Drive Product Direction and Strategy by interfacing with other stakeholders

* Participate in Design and Architecture Reviews

* Drive timely and high-quality software releases

* Ability to manage Full Stack teams.

* Comfortably test drive any feature/comfortable with TDD cycle

* Demonstrate a good knowledge of other programming languages & paradigms and when to apply them

* Comfortably debug/find complex problems.

You will need

Experience

* Proven track record of motivating and retaining talent building teams

* Knowledge of SDLC and utilities like JIRA GitHub or others.

* Good experience in collaborating and driving cross-geo / cross-team projects

* Experience working on SaaS-based products.

* Experience with public clouds like Azure, AWS (Azure if preferred) is desired.

* Preferred knowledge of working with Hybrid Cloud including EDGE compute.

* Familiarity with Design/Implementation trade-offs in building clustered high-performance fault-tolerant distributed systems software.

* Familiarity with Kubernetes Containers Micro-service and at least one high-level programming language.

* Experience with server-side technologies such as SpringBoot Micronaut etc.

* Experience with Event-Driven Systems using Message Brokers.

* Experience with Distributed Caching.

* Experience with Distributed Deployment at EDGE and Cloud.

* Experience with Video Standard and Streaming technologies is a Plus like ONVIF, RTSP, SRTP, WEBRTC, HLS.

Qualifications

Java Springboot framework, Microservices architecture, Rest or RPC API, SQL, NoSQL, Kafka, DevOps, Javascript, ReactJS, HTML5 CSS

Candidate should have 10+ years of experience.

Whats in it for you?

At Tesco, we are committed to providing the best for you. 

As a result, our colleagues enjoy a unique, differentiated, market- competitive reward package, based on the current industry practices, for all the work they put into serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day. 

Our Tesco Rewards framework consists of pillars - Fixed Pay, Incentives, and Benefits.  

Total Rewards offered at Tesco is determined by four principles -simple, fair, competitive, and sustainable. 

Salary
- Your fixed pay is the guaranteed pay as per your contract of employment. 

Leave & Time-off
- Colleagues are entitled to 30 days of leave (18 days of Earned Leave, 12 days of Casual/Sick Leave) and 10 national and festival holidays, as per the company's policy. 

Making Retirement Tension-FreeSalary
- In addition to Statutory retirement beneets, Tesco enables colleagues to participate in voluntary programmes like NPS and VPF. 

Health is Wealth
- Tesco promotes programmes that support a culture of health and wellness including insurance for colleagues and their family. Our medical insurance provides coverage for dependents including parents or in-laws. 

Mental Wellbeing
- We offer mental health support through self-help tools, community groups, ally networks, face-to-face counselling, and more for both colleagues and dependents.  

Financial Wellbeing
- Through our financial literacy partner, we offer one-to-one financial coaching at discounted rates, as well as salary advances on earned wages upon request.  

Save As You Earn (SAYE)
- Our SAYE programme allows colleagues to transition from being employees to Tesco shareholders through a structured 3-year savings plan.  

Physical Wellbeing
- Our green campus promotes physical wellbeing with facilities that include a cricket pitch, football field, badminton and volleyball courts, along with indoor games, encouraging a healthier lifestyle. 

About Us

Tesco in Bengaluru is a multi-disciplinary team serving our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day across markets. Our goal is to create a sustainable competitive advantage for Tesco by standardising processes, delivering cost savings, enabling agility through technological solutions, and empowering our colleagues to do even more for our customers. With cross-functional expertise, a wide network of teams, and strong governance, we reduce complexity, thereby offering high-quality services for our customers. 

Tesco in Bengaluru, established in 2004 to enable standardisation and build centralised capabilities and competencies, makes the experience better for our millions of customers worldwide and simpler for over 3,30,000 colleagues 

Tesco Technology

Today, our Technology team consists of over 5,000 experts spread across the UK, Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and India. In India, our Technology division includes teams dedicated to Engineering, Product, Programme, Service Desk and Operations, Systems Engineering, Security & Capability, Data Science, and other roles. 

At Tesco, our retail platform comprises a wide array of capabilities, value propositions, and products, essential for crafting exceptional retail experiences for our customers and colleagues across all channels and markets. This platform encompasses all aspects of our operations - from identifying and authenticating customers, managing products, pricing, promoting, enabling customers to discover products, facilitating payment, and ensuring delivery. By developing a comprehensive Retail Platform, we ensure that as customer touchpoints and devices evolve, we can consistently deliver seamless experiences. This adaptability allows us to respond flexibly without the need to overhaul our technology, thanks to the creation of capabilities we have built.