Senior Java Engineer - Quote API (London or WGC)

Job description

Tesco UK • Welwyn Garden City • Hybrid • Full-Time • Permanent • Working hours 36 • Apply by 03-Apr-2026 About the role: Join the team behind Price Service—a mission-critical HTTP API powering pricing and promotions across all of Tesco’s channels. From tills to websites and everything in between, our work touches the lives of over 28 million UK shoppers every week, with global reach on the horizon. We’re building a robust, internet-facing API that runs both in stores and in the cloud, designed to support future innovation at scale. This means solving complex distributed systems challenges, ensuring high availability, and optimizing performance. Concepts like the CAP theorem aren’t just theory here—they’re part of our daily engineering conversations. Our stack includes Java, Vert.x, RxJava, Groovy, Couchbase, and Kafka, built using Terraform, running in Kubernetes on Azure utilising GitHub Actions pipelines. We follow Agile principles, adapting Kanban and other methodologies to fit the team’s needs.Collaboration is at the heart of our culture—pair programming is common, and all code is reviewed via GitHub What is in it for you: We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we make su...