Software Development Engineer Iii

Company Description Tesco Bengaluru: We are a multi-disciplinary team creating a sustainable competitive advantage for Tesco by standardising processes, delivering cost savings, enabling agility, providing cutting-edge technological solutions and empowering our colleagues to do ever more for our customers. With cross-functional expertise in Global Business Services and Retail Technology & Engineering, a wide network of teams and strong governance we reduce complexity thereby offering high quality services for our customers. Tesco 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 4,40,000 colleagues.
Tesco Technology consists of people from a number of different backgrounds, but having a common purpose to serve our shoppers a little better every day with our retail technological solutions. We shared a common interest in harnessing innovations in technology to enhance their shopping experience at Tesco stores. Whether making products, software or systems, our teams focuses on various aspects from taking strategic ownership of the architecture to delivering technological solutions such as design, testing, deployment, infrastructure, operation and security of the systems to ensure agile, smooth and safe operations. These help us to deliver the maximum business impact. Teams refine their internal processes to best fit their own needs, working to build core capabilities in application and services. We collaborate globally across teams to build end-to-end customer-facing solutions, as well as to share knowledge, experience, tools and techniques.
At Tesco, inclusion means that Everyone?s Welcome. Everyone is treated fairly and with respect; by valuing individuality and uniqueness we create a sense of belonging.
Diversity and inclusion have always been at the heart of Tesco. It is embedded in our values: we treat people how they want to be treated. We always want our colleagues to feel they can be themselves at work and we are committed to helping them be at their best.
Across the Tesco group we are building an inclusive workplace, a place to actively celebrate the cultures, personalities and preferences of our colleagues ? who in turn help to build the success of our business and reflect the diversity of the communities we serve.

Job Description

Software Development Engineer(SDE II; III) - Managed Kafka as a service
We are seeking experienced builders for our Managed Kafka as a Service; a fully managed service that makes it easy for Tesco's development teams to build and run applications that use Apache Kafka to process streaming data. We are looking for engineers who are enthusiastic about data streaming; and are as passionate about solving problems at scale.
As a member of the Managed Kafka as a service team; you will be making contributions to the entire stack - the APIs; the core Kafka platform; and stand-alone tools that makes it easier to administer Kafka better. You will design and build new features; make performance improvements; identify and investigate new technologies; prototype solutions; build scalable services; and test and review changes; to deliver an exceptional customer experience.
The ideal candidate has experience designing large-scale systems supporting millions of transactions per second; enjoys solving complex software problems; and possesses analytical; design and problem-solving skills. Ideally you have an in-depth understanding of streaming data technologies such as Apache Kafka; and experience with open-source data processing frameworks like Apache Spark; Apache Flink; or Apache Storm. Your responsibilities will include collaborating with other engineers to build a large scale cloud services; and work with senior leaders to define your team's roadmap; including identifying design and code changes needed in the underlying open source platforms.
Programming
* Good Understanding of Java/J2EE programming language Microservices Spring Spring-Boot NoSQL Dependency Injection frameworks RESTful services Build tools etc.
* Understands framework and enough of tool ecosystem of chosen language to implement end to end component with minimal assistance
* Comfortable producing and refactoring code without assistance
* Able to test drive features in programming language of choice
* Understands different major language paradigms (OOP/Functional)
* Understands presence of abstraction beneath language (JVM/CLR)
* Can debug code
* Can understand and resolve complex issues
* Has strong knowledge of observability; alerting patterns.
Kafka
* Experience setting up Multi region Kafka clusters; mirror makers; DR; Zookeepers; KRaft; replication from scratch.
* Hands-on experience with Kafka Brokers and understanding of underlying functionality.
* Hands-on experience with Kafka streams and KSQL DB and understanding of underlying implementation and functionality.
* Hands-on experience with Confluent or Apache Strimzi Kafka connectors and functionality.
* Good understanding of Kafka client (Producer and consumer) functionality.
* Ability to design and implement technical solutions for the Kafka On-prem and Cloud platform.
* Deep knowledge of Kafka best practices and implementation experience.
* Responsible for assisting producer and consumer applications to onboard on to Kafka.
* Good experience with troubleshooting Kafka platform issues.
* Able to troubleshoot and support producer and consumer issues.

Qualifications

Programming
* Good Understanding of Java/J2EE programming language Microservices Spring Spring-Boot NoSQL Dependency Injection frameworks RESTful services Build tools etc.
* Understands framework and enough of tool ecosystem of chosen language to implement end to end component with minimal assistance
Kafka
* Experience setting up Multi region Kafka clusters; mirror makers; DR; Zookeepers; KRaft; replication from scratch.
* Hands-on experience with Kafka Brokers and understanding of underlying functionality.

Additional Information

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