Tesco India Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Full-Time Permanent Apply by 27-Jun-2025
About the role
JOB SUMMARY
As a Graduate Software Development Engineer you are in a junior Individual Contributor role
at Tesco, with the motivation and potential to progress in your career. You have impact on
small to medium features, which you deliver under the guidance of those around you and
respecting the commitments you have made to the team. You keep quality in mind throughout
the process, maintaining an awareness of key standards and recommended best practices.
At this level you are engaged in many opportunities to learn and are proactive in finding
opportunities to develop new skills. You collaborate with other engineers to complete your
work and you know when it is appropriate to ask for help.
As a Graduate Software Development Engineer you are in a junior Individual Contributor role
at Tesco, with the motivation and potential to progress in your career. You have impact on
small to medium features, which you deliver under the guidance of those around you and
respecting the commitments you have made to the team. You keep quality in mind throughout
the process, maintaining an awareness of key standards and recommended best practices.
At this level you are engaged in many opportunities to learn and are proactive in finding
opportunities to develop new skills. You collaborate with other engineers to complete your
work and you know when it is appropriate to ask for help.
What is 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.
You will be responsible for
IN THIS JOB, I AM ACCOUNTABLE FOR:
Following our Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due
diligence and have these specific risk responsibilities:
By being a part of the Technology Software Engineering programme, I will get exposure to a
selection of the latest technologies so that I am equipped with the right knowledge and skills
to become a future engineering leader. I will be able to bring my knowledge and experience
to life; and by using agile principles, I will learn how to protect customer data, how to automate
and how to build large scale systems.
My impact is within the team I work. I provide technical solutions for small features,
understanding the design and taking accountability of the feature I am developing. At this level
I complete the work that has been assigned to me; I am starting to contribute to the technical
problems the team faces and support the running and maintenance of the solution. I am aware
of short-term and long-terms goals across the features of the product I am involved and am
starting to understand the business context in which my team operates.
I continuously seek guidance and support from our software engineers, who are building
technology which can have a real impact on our customers. I will be experiencing the breadth
of software engineering with the opportunity to spend time in several teams. I will learn through
experience and live working sessions.
I follow the standards and benchmarks the team has set and ensure the quality is at par with
my peers. In particular I thoroughly test the work I produce, ensuring that they meet all
functional and non-functional requirements. I have an appreciation for the timeliness of
delivery and respect the commitments I have made to the team.
At this level I ensure I make the most of the feedback given to me by others, whilst learning
how to do peer code reviews and provide useful feedback to my peers. I am proactive in finding
opportunities to grow and develop my skills, upskilling myself on new technologies, tools and
processes. I participate in team innovation hackathons and discovery sessions to understand
the larger goal of the product and team. I collaborate and work within my team. I share my
learning and technical knowledge with my peers. Drawing on my own experience I am able to
help with the onboarding process for new joiners.
I have a high-level understanding of best practices across the industry and awareness of
Tesco architectural standards. I aim to put these principles and standards into practice when
completing my work. I am learning common testing and deployment strategies and am
considering how these apply to my work.
I implement and ship stories with some assistance from my team. I am able to pair with other
engineers and work in a group context to deliver and support feature development. At this
level I display a degree of ownership and integrity for my work and understand when to ask
for help.
Following our Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due
diligence and have these specific risk responsibilities:
By being a part of the Technology Software Engineering programme, I will get exposure to a
selection of the latest technologies so that I am equipped with the right knowledge and skills
to become a future engineering leader. I will be able to bring my knowledge and experience
to life; and by using agile principles, I will learn how to protect customer data, how to automate
and how to build large scale systems.
My impact is within the team I work. I provide technical solutions for small features,
understanding the design and taking accountability of the feature I am developing. At this level
I complete the work that has been assigned to me; I am starting to contribute to the technical
problems the team faces and support the running and maintenance of the solution. I am aware
of short-term and long-terms goals across the features of the product I am involved and am
starting to understand the business context in which my team operates.
I continuously seek guidance and support from our software engineers, who are building
technology which can have a real impact on our customers. I will be experiencing the breadth
of software engineering with the opportunity to spend time in several teams. I will learn through
experience and live working sessions.
I follow the standards and benchmarks the team has set and ensure the quality is at par with
my peers. In particular I thoroughly test the work I produce, ensuring that they meet all
functional and non-functional requirements. I have an appreciation for the timeliness of
delivery and respect the commitments I have made to the team.
At this level I ensure I make the most of the feedback given to me by others, whilst learning
how to do peer code reviews and provide useful feedback to my peers. I am proactive in finding
opportunities to grow and develop my skills, upskilling myself on new technologies, tools and
processes. I participate in team innovation hackathons and discovery sessions to understand
the larger goal of the product and team. I collaborate and work within my team. I share my
learning and technical knowledge with my peers. Drawing on my own experience I am able to
help with the onboarding process for new joiners.
I have a high-level understanding of best practices across the industry and awareness of
Tesco architectural standards. I aim to put these principles and standards into practice when
completing my work. I am learning common testing and deployment strategies and am
considering how these apply to my work.
I implement and ship stories with some assistance from my team. I am able to pair with other
engineers and work in a group context to deliver and support feature development. At this
level I display a degree of ownership and integrity for my work and understand when to ask
for help.
You will need
WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR
Skillset relevant for the job
• Take a defined problem including one or more components and come up with the
implementation with minimal guidance
• Have good domain knowledge and deliver with more autonomy, but need occasional
guidance on computer science skills like data structures, algorithms
• Produce the component design and low-level design with guidance.
• Learn and apply technologies, techniques and methodologies that add value to my
team
• Fully participate in retrospectives and other team ceremonies
• Identify value of tasks & always work on the highest priority items
Programming
• Produce and refactor code with assistance
• Practices test-driven development with all responsible positive and negative test cases
• Understand enough of framework and tool ecosystem to implement components with
assistance.
• Aware of major language paradigms
• Develop high quality code that can lead to rapid delivery
• Understand complexity of algorithms (time and space) and code (cyclomatic)
Design
• Aware of major (gang of four) design patterns.
• Understands basics of domains and domain modelling
• Understands abstractions o Understand DRY and basic code hygiene factors
• Understand the importance of project instrumentation (logging & monitoring) and able
to implement these with assistance
Development Practice
• Understand version control & branching strategies
• Aware of CI tooling o Understand feature toggling
• Apply my understanding of secure coding
Infrastructure
• Demonstrate a good working knowledge of one relevant operating system
• Script and automate within relevant environment
• Understand Oauth/Saml & identity models
Skillset relevant for the job
• Take a defined problem including one or more components and come up with the
implementation with minimal guidance
• Have good domain knowledge and deliver with more autonomy, but need occasional
guidance on computer science skills like data structures, algorithms
• Produce the component design and low-level design with guidance.
• Learn and apply technologies, techniques and methodologies that add value to my
team
• Fully participate in retrospectives and other team ceremonies
• Identify value of tasks & always work on the highest priority items
Programming
• Produce and refactor code with assistance
• Practices test-driven development with all responsible positive and negative test cases
• Understand enough of framework and tool ecosystem to implement components with
assistance.
• Aware of major language paradigms
• Develop high quality code that can lead to rapid delivery
• Understand complexity of algorithms (time and space) and code (cyclomatic)
Design
• Aware of major (gang of four) design patterns.
• Understands basics of domains and domain modelling
• Understands abstractions o Understand DRY and basic code hygiene factors
• Understand the importance of project instrumentation (logging & monitoring) and able
to implement these with assistance
Development Practice
• Understand version control & branching strategies
• Aware of CI tooling o Understand feature toggling
• Apply my understanding of secure coding
Infrastructure
• Demonstrate a good working knowledge of one relevant operating system
• Script and automate within relevant environment
• Understand Oauth/Saml & identity models
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.