Software Development Engineer II - Personalistion
About the role Every customer is different, and we're building the technology to make every Tesco experience feel personal. Join Tesco's Personalisation team and help shape the experiences of millions of customers every day by powering real-time recommendations, offers, targeting, and experimentation across our web, mobile, and in-store channels. Our platforms combine real-time data, machine learning, and large-scale distributed systems to turn customer insights into intelligent decisions in milliseconds.
You'll work on complex engineering challenges spanning streaming data, low-latency decisioning services, and ML powered systems, while collaborating closely with product, data science, and analytics teams. This is an opportunity to build technology at significant scale, influence the evolution of our personalisation platform, and directly impact how millions of customers discover, shop, and save with Tesco. What is in it for you We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we make sure our Tesco colleague benefits package takes care of you – both in and out of work. Click Here to find out more!
You'll work on complex engineering challenges spanning streaming data, low-latency decisioning services, and ML powered systems, while collaborating closely with product, data science, and analytics teams. This is an opportunity to build technology at significant scale, influence the evolution of our personalisation platform, and directly impact how millions of customers discover, shop, and save with Tesco. What is in it for you We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we make sure our Tesco colleague benefits package takes care of you – both in and out of work. Click Here to find out more!
- Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary.
- Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays).
- Private medical insurance.
- 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (12 months service required at the qualifying date) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave.
- Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing.
- Building low-latency, high-throughput services for personalisation
- Developing Java / Spring Boot microservices with REST/gRPC APIs
- Working with Kafka and event-driven architectures
- Building pipelines using Apache Flink and Apache Beam
- Integrating ML models and feature stores
- Working with NoSQL databases and Redis caching
- Using Apache Camel for integration where required
- Collaborating with product, data science, and analytics teams
- Writing automated tests and improving reliability
- Monitoring systems using New Relic, Splunk, and metrics platforms
- Supporting CI/CD pipelines and deployments
- Contributing to experimentation (A/B testing)
- Strong Java backend experience
- Experience building microservices and APIs
- Understanding of event-driven systems
- Familiarity with stream processing concepts
- Knowledge of distributed systems
- Strong communication and teamwork skills
- Interest in data-driven personalisation systems
- Experience with Apache Flink and Apache Beam
- Experience with Kafka
- Familiarity with Apache Camel
- Experience with NoSQL databases (Cassandra, DynamoDB) and Redis
- Cloud experience (GCP or AWS)
- Docker and Kubernetes
- ML model serving or feature stores
- A/B testing platforms
- Terraform or infrastructure as code
- Performance and scalability optimisation