Tesco Hungary Hybrid Full-Time Working hours 40 Apply by 30-Apr-2026
About the role
As a Principal Software Development Engineer, you are key in shaping large parts of Tesco’s technical landscape. You contribute to strategic planning, combining business vision and industry best practices to define technical strategy and make decisions.
You typically work across multiple teams, setting standards for engineering excellence and efficient technical design. You are hands-on and guide teams to improve technology across product portfolios, infrastructure, and processes.
As a senior technical expert, you are a thought leader for large and complex areas. You set technical direction to translate strategy into action, making a significant impact on the organisation. You own the design, implementation, and delivery of software that shapes products and technologies. You use your depth of skill and experience to enable multiple teams around you to deliver excellent software quickly.
What is in it for you
Tesco is a diverse and exciting employer, dedicated to being #aplacetogeton, providing career-defining opportunities to all of our colleagues. If you chose to join our business, we will provide you with:
- Permanent contract from the go – as a sign of our trust in your abilities
- Yearly salary bonus – based on both individual and business performance
- Car allowance
- Extensive private healthcare - complex care package including a wide range of specialists, medical services, and free flu vaccination
- Cafeteria
- Relocation Help - professional service to secure relevant working permits and other necessary documents
- Learning opportunities - certified technical training and learning platforms like Udemy, Pluralsight, and O'Reilly
- Referral Bonus
- Learning culture and excellent opportunities to develop your career within your chosen field or something altogether new
- Varied and exciting projects to play a part in – there is always something new and exciting in the pipeline
If that sounds exciting, then we'd love to hear from you.
You will be responsible for
- Apply your in-depth knowledge of multiple programming languages, associated frameworks, and the tool ecosystem to create elegant solutions to problems.
- Adopt new languages and new paradigms and produce proof of concepts to evaluate new tools, applying them to the problem domain where they deliver significant benefit.
- Lead group discussions on design and model multiple domains, articulating contexts and boundaries and the rationale behind them, shaping the wider application landscape.
- Work with product teams to understand and translate their needs into improvements in your product, translating requirements into tasks and code and developing high-quality code that can lead to rapid delivery.
- Support production systems, resolving incidents, and performing root cause analysis.
- Share knowledge with the wider engineering community, mentoring and developing those around you to improve the organisation.
You will need
- Demonstrated experience designing, developing and running whole system landscapes.
- Experience across large engineering organisations.
- Experience acting as a technical authority across multiple domains and multiple technologies.
- Experience proposing architectural patterns for adoption by an organisation.
- Experience guiding large programmes of work.
- Experience driving the adoption of inner sourcing initiatives.
- A track record of delivering large-scale, well architected web solutions at pace
- You drive and implement best practice improvements
- You confidently and competently impart knowledge to users, customers, and other team members
- Strong understanding of running production applications.
- Designing and building distributed systems, for scalability, availability and performance
- Testing everything, automating everything
About us
Tesco Business Solution and Tesco Technology were established in Budapest in 2019, supporting the Tesco retail business in Central Europe and the Tesco Group. TBST and Tesco Technology are part of our global business services and technology organisations within Tesco.
In the UK, Ireland, India, Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic we operate to offer great value to our customers every day.
In Budapest, our Technology hub currently employs more than 200 – and a growing number – of highly trained software engineers and managers who are implementing global software development projects across fulfilment, supplier and product management, online and in-store loss prevention, and our online grocery sites.
Our goal is to bring significant changes to the market by using the latest technologies. We are focusing on a large variety of modern technologies from the backend space and frontend to UX, UI and even data science and engineering.
We are aiming to drive business value through innovation and to create an organization that fundamentally transforms the retail environment.
We put accountability and ownership on the individuals and their teams in order to run a horizontal organization where teamwork is extremely important. With an end-to-end approach, we offer our colleagues opportunities for self-development and career growth.
Our colleagues are the key to our success at Tesco. We foster an environment of openness and collaboration. We draw from the diversity, knowledge and experience of our colleagues. It is all about equal opportunities, no matter who you are, or where you come from, you can get on at Tesco.
Our teams consist of individuals who can truly make a difference. Focusing on building a world-class business services centre alongside cutting-edge technology capability, they are working towards our goal of serving our customers and colleagues a little better every day.
We are expanding our operations locally and we are looking for the best talent.