Address
Form of work
SalaryGeneral information
Job Title
Engineering Lead
Ref #
8619
Location
Edinburgh
Department
Engineering
Business Area
Engineering
Working time
Full-Time
Date Published
19-03-2024
Serving our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day.
Salary is between £65,000 - £80,000 & benefits
Location – Edinburgh/Glasgow/Newcastle, Permanent
Flexible hybrid working – 1 day per week in office, subject to change.
Applications close 29th March, Interview's commence immediately.
Following the announcement regarding Tesco's strategic partnership with Barclays, this role will support our insurance and money services business and will remain with Tesco.
A chance to thrive
We are looking for an EngineerLead - Software to lead multiple cross disciplined engineering feature teams.
- Technical Challenges: The role involves designing, building, testing, supporting, and delivering customer-facing web applications. This provides an opportunity to work with JavaScript/Typescript, React, and NodeJS deployed on AWS
- Leadership Role: You'll lead multiple cross-disciplined engineering feature teams, providing an opportunity to demonstrate and enhance your leadership skills.
- Influence on Direction: You'll have the opportunity to set the direction and drive through service improvements, features, and changes. This allows you to make a significant impact on the product and the team.
- Mentorship Opportunities: You'll work closely with all engineers on your team, from seniors to juniors, mentoring and building their careers. This provides a chance to share your knowledge and help others grow.
- Collaborative Environment: We encourage engineers to share new ideas, challenge existing practices, and look for opportunities to improve their teams and the wider engineering community creating a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
- Subject Matter Expertise: You will act as a subject matter expert with architecture, product, cloud, and testing teams, allowing you to showcase and further develop your expertise.
- Career Advancement: Working closely with principal engineers on longer-term technology goals provides an excellent opportunity for career advancement.
Everyone’s welcome
We want all our colleagues to always feel welcome and be themselves at Tesco Bank. We’re committed to building a more inclusive workplace and celebrating everything that makes colleagues unique, and value the richness and diversity this brings to our business. A more diverse business helps us deliver on our purpose to serve our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day.
We don’t expect you to tick every box, and if you feel you hit most of the brief, it’s worth exploring to further develop your career here with us at Tesco Bank.
We need you to have:
- In-depth knowledge of JavaScript, Node and one UI framework (such as React) along with the tool ecosystem
- Ability to deliver high quality code that can lead to rapid delivery allowing us to pursue continuous integration and delivery
- Deep understanding of web security concepts leading to secure code by default
- Write clean, well-tested code which can be easily maintained by large teams
- Experience of best practises around unit testing in the JavaScript ecosystem
- Understanding and exposure to integrating REST/SOAP API endpoints
- Exposure to DevOps toolsets and CI/CD concepts
- Experience of supporting and running the services you have developed
And if you have any of these, even better.
- Knowledge of TypeScript
- Working knowledge of AWS services
- Understanding of containerisation technologies
- Experience of coaching both junior and senior software engineers
- Knowledge of Agile practises and ceremonies
What’s in it for you
- Embrace the benefits of our Colleague Clubcard, enjoy a 10% discount that increase to 15% every payday. As an added perk, we’ll give you a second card to share with someone else.
- Virtual GP Service for you and your family 365 days a year.
- Indulge in a generous holiday allowance with a minimum of 7.2 weeks, with the opportunity to buy more.
- Embrace our family-oriented initiatives, encompassing enhanced maternity leave pay, a shared parental leave policy, and a generous 8-week paid paternity leave.
- Prepare for your retirement with our colleague pension scheme.
- Opportunity to develop your career. #LI-KP1
How to apply
We value our people and diverse teams and believe the variety of backgrounds and experiences make us stronger to achieve our goals.
Our colleagues are working hybrid, taking time to meet with colleagues in our offices for moments that matter, such as team catch ups, planning meetings and more. If you’re interested in finding out more about what a career at Tesco Bank looks like, click apply to find out more!
Why Tesco Bank?
We’re also a little obsessed with the future. Your future. Our future. That’s why we take development seriously; we want to help you thrive and evolve in your career. Tesco Bank is a place to get on, all colleagues have access to LinkedIn Learning and Abstract, from day one.
It’s important to us that we make sure you’re supported by your team and colleague networks every day, celebrating when it matters and helping you to be the best version of yourself. The people make Tesco Bank, and we take pride in what we achieve together.
All that hard work? Come and see it turned into something real, usable, and important to customers’ and colleagues’ everyday lives. At Tesco Bank, our products make things a little better for everyone.
It’s important to us that we make sure you’re supported by your team and colleague networks every day, celebrating when it matters and helping you to be the best version of yourself. The people make Tesco Bank, and we take pride in what we achieve together.
All that hard work? Come and see it turned into something real, usable, and important to customers’ and colleagues’ everyday lives. At Tesco Bank, our products make things a little better for everyone.
