Software Engineer
Posted:
26 September 2026 (7 hours ago)
Application Deadline:
24 December 2026
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
General information
Job Title
Software Engineer
Ref #
9648
Location
Edinburgh - 2 South Gyle Crescent Edinburgh EH12 9FQ
Department
IMS - Engineering
Business Area
Engineering
Working time
Full-Time
Date Published
2
Serving our customers communities and planet a little better every day.
Salary - up to 57000 annual bonus & benefits
Work Level - 1
Location Edinburgh Glasgow or NewcastlePermanent
Office Attendance Our hybrid working model gives you the best of both worlds - flexibility to work from home and valuable face-to-face time with colleagues. This role typically requires 2 days per week onsite.
Closing Date - Applications close on 16th of October at 5pm
Why this role
We are looking for a Software Engineer to join Tesco Insurance and Money Services at an exciting stage of growth and transformation. This is a fantastic opportunity to become part of a talented and collaborative engineering team responsible for developing and supporting Tescos motor insurance products and services.
As a Software Engineer you will be involved throughout the full software development lifecycle from requirements gathering and solution design through to development testing deployment and ongoing support. Working within an Agile environment you will collaborate closely with fellow engineers product and delivery stakeholders business analysts architects and other cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality software solutions.
What youll be doing
You will play a role in designing building testing and maintaining scalable and resilient applications that provide value to our customers and support key business objectives. You will be encouraged to contribute ideas challenge existing approaches and help drive continuous improvement across both technology and ways of working. This role offers an excellent opportunity to develop your technical expertise while working on meaningful products that impact millions of customers.
What were looking for (minimum criteria)
Proven experience developing and maintaining applications using / TypeScript with a strong understanding of modern software engineering principles and best practices.
Experience delivering features throughout the full software development lifecycle including development testing deployment and ongoing support within an Agile delivery environment.
An understanding of automated testing with hands-on experience writing and maintaining unit tests using Jest to ensure code quality reliability and maintainability.
Experience working collaboratively within cross-functional teams including engineers product owners business analysts and architects with the ability to communicate technical concepts effectively and contribute to continuous improvement initiative
And if you have any of these even better
Experience building and operating applications within AWS cloud with a good understanding of cloud-native architectures and operational best practices.
Some experience with CI/CD pipelines infrastructure as code monitoring and observability and performance optimisation.
We welcome applications from everyone. If youre excited about this role but your experience doesnt align perfectly with every requirement wed still love to hear from you.
Whats in it for you
A generous pension with up to 7.5% employer contribution depending on what you put in.
Virtual GP Service for you and your family
Performance related annual bonus.
7.2 weeks holiday with the opportunity to buy more.
Colleague Clubcard discount (10-15% second card to share with someone else).
Enhanced parental leave.
Opportunities to Save and Buy as you earn.
A place to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities to help you achieve the job and career you want.
Interviews
As a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) were committed to creating an accessible and supportive environment for all. We offer reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process including interviews to ensure every candidate has a fair opportunity to succeed.
We also know the importance of balancing work with lifes other commitments. Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you need as were committed to exploring part time and flexible working opportunities at every level of the organisation.
Interviews are expected to be held from w/c 19th of October.
Dont miss out. Were assessing applications throughout the recruitment process and may close this opportunity ahead of the closing date if we receive a high volume of applications.
Why Tesco Insurance and Money Services
Seeing your impact all around you: theres no better feeling.
Everything we do is about making things better. Not just for others but for you too. Its why youll get bags of choice and plenty of development. Its why youll always be heard and find balance that works for you. Its why youll feel totally at home in a place where everyones welcome.
Lucky for us we get to feel it all the time. Because whatever our role were helping our colleagues and serving our customers communities and planet a little better every day.
We deal in the personal from pet insurance for your best friend and home insurance for peace of mind to motor insurance for your dream car or travel money for that trip youve worked hard for.
We deal in the personal from pet insurance for your best friend and home insurance for peace of mind to motor insurance for your dream car or travel money for that trip youve worked hard for.
Everything we do is about making things better. Not just for others but for you too. Its why youll get bags of choice and plenty of development. Its why youll always be heard and find balance that works for you. Its why youll feel totally at home in a place where everyones welcome.
So if you want a career where you can do good and feel good youve found it.
Lets make everyday a little better.
Lets make everyday a little better.
Our story
Making Insurance and Money Services more rewarding and offering great value and choice - because we know little wins can make a big difference.
Delivering great customer service means having great people behind the scenes people who understand our customers and are driven by doing the right thing for them. We offer colleagues a place where they can feel totally at home in a place where everyones welcome where they can be part of a great team focused on making a real difference for our customers.
We began life in 1997 and now help more than 2 million customers protect what matters to them.
We want to deliver a helpful service in everything we do and to make life easier for our customers. Our policies are really easy to manage online for our customers but we know that being able to speak to our customer service staff when you need to is really important. This is why our customer service centres are open seven days a week.
We want to deliver a helpful service in everything we do and to make life easier for our customers. Our policies are really easy to manage online for our customers but we know that being able to speak to our customer service staff when you need to is really important. This is why our customer service centres are open seven days a week.
Delivering great customer service means having great people behind the scenes people who understand our customers and are driven by doing the right thing for them. We offer colleagues a place where they can feel totally at home in a place where everyones welcome where they can be part of a great team focused on making a real difference for our customers.
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 youre interested in finding out more about what a career at Tesco Insurance and Money Services looks like click apply to find out more!
Required Experience:
IC
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