Tesco India Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Hybrid Full-Time Permanent Working hours 45 Apply by 23-Feb-2026
About the role
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Scan Assist engineering team. In the role, you will be part of an Engineering team, that delivers integration with Machine Learning and AI based solutions into production. You will be joining one of Tesco’s most important strategic technology areas, working closely alongside other software engineers, systems engineers, data scientists, and product managers to help deliver valuable and innovative outcomes for our customers.
The Scan Assist team are actively bringing Computer Vision based solutions into store, helping improve the customer store journey. The solution is being integrated with other parts of our edge retail platform including both hardware and software (e.g. tills, video platform, infrastructure). We are looking for engineers to join our team, bringing experience in delivering and operating production systems. The ideal candidates will have hands on technical experience in any of the following areas SRE, DevOps, Python and Integration
Beyond Scan Assist you will be part of our wider Data Science, Software Engineering team. This team builds Machine Learning and AI based solutions that can help across the entire retail journey and one of the fastest growing and most innovative areas of Tesco Technology.
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
You will be responsible for
As a Software Development Engineer 3 (SDE3) you are in a senior Individual Contributor engineering role. At this level you will be playing an active role in technical leadership, with proven impact across teams and the wider directorate. You will take ownership and accountability for the development of the products in your domain. You will participate in activities that build capability across the organisation: coaching and mentoring of existing colleagues, and interviewing/hiring of new colleagues.
Responsibilities will include:
Working with other technology teams across the entire software lifecycle.
Applying SDLC practices to create and release robust software
Working with product teams to communicate and translate needs into technical requirements.
Delivering high quality technical solutions into production.
Responsible for ensuring key service metrics are met.
Continually look for how we can evolve and improve our technology, processes and practices.
Working other teams on good practice and helping define process.
Supporting production systems, resolving incidents, and performing root cause analysis.
Sharing knowledge with the wider engineering community.
Mentoring and developing others around you.
You will need
Ideal Candidate Profile
You come from an Engineering background, bringing strong real world experience running live production systems. You therefore tick the majority of the following points:
Key Requirements:
Demonstrable involvement in the full development life cycle; design, coding, test, build, QA, deployment and maintenance.
A strong knowledge and understanding of python programming.
A strong understanding of the software testing lifecycle.
Experience participating in incident, problem and service improvement process, with the ability to assess incidents, prioritise resolutions or escalations within SLAs.
Experience building scalable and resilient systems in a professional setting.
Customer focus with the right balance between outcome delivery and technical excellence.
Working with multiple software development methodologies including Scrum & Kanban.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills e.g. runbooks, technical designs etc.
Strong experience working across multiple teams towards a collaborative objective.
Ability to work with other teams for any dependencies or integrations.
An understanding of microservice architectures.
A basic understanding of hardware infrastructure and networking.
Monitoring and alerting technologies e.g. Splunk, Grafana, NewRelic, Prometheus, XMatters.
Nice to have (but not necessary):
Experience with any of the following …
Video streaming and CCTV technology
Working in retail technology
Solutions that run at edge
Experience with Chef for config management and deployment pipelines.
An appreciation of VM and containerisation technologies (e.g. VMWare, Docker).
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.