Senior Software Engineer - Backend
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Overview
Position Type
Full Time
Experience
6+ years
Job Description
About the Role
Retail Media is transforming how advertisers connect with consumers through personalised and targeted campaigns across retailers’ digital and physical touchpoints. As a Senior Software Engineer within Tesco Media, you will help build and scale products that enable advertisers and retailers to measure, optimise and improve campaign performance.
Working as part of a collaborative engineering team, you will contribute to the design, development and delivery of high-quality software solutions. You'll combine strong technical expertise with a customer-first mindset, helping create innovative products that drive measurable business value.
What You'll Be Doing
You'll play a key role in delivering reliable, scalable and maintainable software solutions.
- Build and enhance customer-facing applications and platform capabilities using modern engineering practices.
- Collaborate with Product Managers, Designers and Engineers to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
- Design and develop scalable services, APIs and integrations that support Retail Media products.
- Champion software quality through testing, code reviews, CI/CD practices and continuous improvement.
- Contribute to technical discussions, knowledge sharing and the adoption of engineering best practices across the team.
What We're Looking For
You'll bring a strong software engineering foundation and a passion for solving complex technical challenges.
- Experience developing and delivering scalable software applications in a modern engineering environment.
- 6+ years of hands-on experience in backend development, focusing on performance, scalability, security, and maintainability.
- Strong proficiency in C# and.NET Core, with expertise in developing RESTful APIs and
- Drive code quality, ensuring adherence to best practices, design patterns, and SOLID
- Experience with cloud platforms (Google Cloud Platform C Azure), implementing cloud-native best practices for scalability, security, and resilience.
- Hands-on experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes, Helm).
- Strong focus on non-functional requirements (NFRs) such as performance tuning, observability (monitoring/logging/alerting), and security best practices.
- Experience implementing unit testing, integration testing, and automated testing
- Proficiency in CI/CD automation, with experience in GitOps workflows and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Helm, or similar).
- Experience working in Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and DevOps best
You'll Thrive If You...
- Enjoy working in Agile development environments.
- Have experience improving platform performance, reliability and scalability.
- Are comfortable mentoring colleagues and sharing knowledge across teams.
- Enjoy working on products that combine technology, data and measurable business outcomes.
What You Can Expect From Us
We won't just meet your expectations. We'll defy them. So you'll enjoy the comprehensive rewards package you'd expect from a leading technology company. But also, a degree of personal flexibility you might not expect. Plus, thoughtful perks, like flexible working hours and your birthday off.
And we don't just talk about diversity and inclusion. We live it every day – with thriving networks including dh Gender Equality Network, dh Proud, dh Family, dh One, dh Enabled and dh Thrive as the living proof. We want everyone to have the opportunity to shine and perform at your best throughout our recruitment process — please let your recruiter know what adjustments would help.