Software Development Engineer III - Frontend (Connect)

TN United Kingdom; Welwyn Garden City; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 80,000

Job description

Software Development Engineer III - Frontend (Connect), Welwyn Garden City

Client:

Tesco

Location:

Welwyn Garden City

Job Category:

Other

EU work permit required:

Yes

Job Reference:

1089c63b2284

Job Description:

As a Frontend / Web Software Engineer you’ll be working in an agile team of industry leading engineers upon developing Tesco Connect. Tesco Connect is an application which enables both our supply chain business team and suppliers to manage the demand and supply of all the products across all the stores and depots globally (essentially a control tower view of our supply chain, so super critical to our business), and are looking for a Senior Frontend Developer to continue growing the team. Working with Product Managers, you will be responsible for the future direction of the products that we build, solving problems and developing new features through quality, scalable, performant and maintainable technical solutions. Your applications make previously complex tasks simple with the impact ranging from saving time, effort, or money to re-defining normal. Some of the tech we are using: ES6, React, Styled-components, Webpack, Cypress, Docker, Azure DevOps.

You will be responsible for:

1. Using your in-depth knowledge of JavaScript, React and related tools / frameworks to develop and implement scalable frontend systems.
2. Identify patterns in code and refactor the code towards them where it increases understanding and/or maintainability with minimal mentorship.
3. Mentor and develop others around you, sharing knowledge with the wider engineering community.
4. Follow the standard processes of continuous BDD/TDD/Performance/Security/Smoke testing.
5. Support production systems, resolve incidents and performing root cause analysis.
6. Continually propose and drive process improvements, produce proof of concepts to evaluate new tools.

You will need:

1. We are looking for people who have a passion for Technology. You will likely have made open-source contributions and have a Github account. You will demonstrate experience of different platforms and technologies. We expect to see some or all of the following:
2. Best-practices regarding all aspects of web development including design, semantic HTML mark-up, CSS, JavaScript, and related technologies.
3. Exposure to a variety of JavaScript frameworks and libraries such as: React, Redux, Webpack, React-Router and testing with React Testing Library Jest, Cypress, Jasmine, Enzyme, Mocha.
4. A desire to write readable, maintainable, modular, and extendable code.
5. Design and develop larger systems and features, anticipating medium term (3-6 month) vectors of change, designing, and abstracting accordingly.
6. Able to profile and optimise code.

General Skills:

1. Problem solving, analysis and computational skills. You are comfortable designing systems and reasoning about them.
2. Written and verbal communication skills. You can communicate effectively and efficiently considering the nature of your audience.

What's in it for you:

We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we give our wonderful colleagues bags of benefits. Including wellbeing services, an award-winning pension scheme and much, much more, our colleague reward package keeps on giving. And helps make every day a little better for you and your family.

About us:

Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move. Our core purpose is 'Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day'.

We're proud to have an inclusive culture at Tesco where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. At Tesco, we not only celebrate diversity, but recognise the value and opportunity it brings.

We have recently announced that we will be moving towards a more blended working week – combining office and remote working. Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate.