About the role

Job Summary:

As a Software Development Engineer 2 you are in a mid-level Individual Contributor role at Tesco. Engineers at SDE2 level will continue their career development and show

potential for an SDE3 role. SDE2 is a stepping stone towards SDE3, rather than a career destination in its own right.

At this level, your impact reaches across a team, and you provide technical leadership of medium to large features. You are starting to produce your own work by

understanding the problems that the team faces and are beginning to support other engineers with their own delivery and development. You prioritise sharing your skills and

knowledge. You also prioritise quality of work, helping your team to continually set the standard. You understand and apply best practice within Tesco and across the

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industry. b, I am accountable for:

Following our Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence and have these specific risk responsibilities:

My impact reaches across the team in which I work. I provide technical leadership of medium to large features, participating in their design and taking accountability for their

delivery. I am comfortable implementing and shipping end-to-end stories and am starting to understand the deeper problems in my part of the business. I am likely to be

considered an expert in a specific part of my domain.

This is the first level at which I do more than complete the work that’s been assigned to me: I am starting to build and prioritise my own work by understanding the problems

my team faces and proposing, implementing, and delivering solutions to them. I am aware of the short-term and long-term goals across my product. I work within my team,

utilising data driven decision making techniques, to encouraging optimal outcomes whilst accepting appropriate trade-offs.

I am comfortable both supporting other engineers in their delivery and taking the lead on major components or small services as appropriate. At this level I display a degree

of ownership for the work conducted by the team and am experienced enough to know when I need support. I am able to identify risks and raise these as appropriate.

At this level I am beginning to support, coach, and mentor those around me. As junior engineers join the team, I am assisting them through their onboarding process and

leaning on my past experience to help get them up to speed. Whilst I may not formally be a mentor for other engineers, I am someone that individuals across the team will

come to for advice and help. I prioritise sharing skills and technical knowledge across my team.

I contribute to the raising the quality bar of my team’s codebase, both in the code that I produce and by helping to peer review code written by other team members. I

proactively provide constructive and useful feedback to other team members on their code.

I have a good understanding of best practices across the industry and of Tesco architectural standards. I make sure to put these principles and standards into practice when

completing my work. I am aware of the best testing and deployment strategies in the industry and have a view on the suitability of implementing these within my team.

K ey people and teams I work with in and outside of Tesco:

People, budgets and other resources I am accountable

I am comfortable working in a group context and am capable of communicating technical concepts to key stakeholders.

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All team members

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Product teams

Engineering leadership

Programme teams

Key business stakeholders

3rd party engineering, product and programme teams when applicable.

Operational skills relevant for this job:

Experience relevant for this job:

Successfully had impact across a software engineering team.

Programming

System Design

Demonstrated experience designing, developing and running components of

software systems.

Development Practise

Infrastructure

Experience implementing common design and architectural patterns.

Software Security

Experience supporting other engineers in their work.

Operations and Maintenance

Core Technology

Development Lifecycle

Product Methodologies

Retail Technology Awareness

Communication & Influencing

Data Analytics & Insights

Strategic Thinking & Problem Solving

Finance & Procurement

Curiosity & Learning

Embracing and Enabling Change