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With nearly 3,000 experts across Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas, we partner with iconic businesses like Tesco, Coca-Cola, Meijer, Procter & Gamble and Metro to turn data into growth, innovation and measurable value for their customers.\nTesco Media\nTesco Media is the ultimate media partner to brands. Built on unrivalled customer insight, it’s a media owner with soul, scale, and storytelling power. Tesco Media helps brands and agencies connect meaningfully with customers, drive creative effectiveness, and grow at the point of purchase. \nAbout the Role\nWe are seeking a Backend Software Developer with expertise in .NET technologies, cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), and microservices architecture. The engineers would be involved in developing a product that helps Retailers transform their Retail Media business in a way that helps them achieve maximum ad revenue and enable massive scale.\nYou will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining scalable and efficient backend systems. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality solutions that meet business needs, ensuring optimal performance, reliability, and scalability.\nKey Responsibilities:\nDesign and implement robust backend systems and services using .NET technologies .\nBuild, deploy, and maintain microservices in a cloud-based environment, ensuring scalability, fault tolerance, and performance.\nLeverage cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP) to deploy and manage backend services in a cloud-native environment.\nWrite clean, maintainable, and efficient code while adhering to coding standards and best practices.\nOptimize backend services for performance, security, and reliability.\nCollaborate with front-end developers, DevOps engineers, product managers, and other stakeholders to deliver integrated solutions. Provide mentorship to junior developers as needed.\nImplement automation frameworks, integrate CI/CD pipelines, and drive continuous improvement to streamline deployment and testing processes.\nWrite unit, integration, and performance tests. Troubleshoot and resolve issues in production and development environments.\nCreate and maintain detailed documentation for backend services, architecture, and workflows.\nWhat we expect from you\n2 to 4 years of hands on expertise in C#, ASP.NET, .NET Core, and related frameworks.Strong experience designing, developing, and deploying microservices-based applications.\nHands-on experience with at least one cloud platform (AWS, Azure, GCP), including cloud-native services like containers (Docker), serverless, and Kubernetes.\nSolid understanding of relational and NoSQL databases (SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, etc.) and experience with cloud database services.\nProficiency in designing and developing RESTful APIs, GraphQL, and working with third-party integrations.\nExperience with continuous integration, deployment, and version control systems (e.g., Git, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitLab).\nKnowledge of event-driven architecture, messaging queues (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ), and service discovery mechanisms.\nUnderstanding of security principles, including authentication, authorization, encryption, and secure coding practices.\nExperience with performance optimization, load balancing, and monitoring tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana).\nStrong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a keen attention to detail and ability to debug complex systems\nPreferred Skills:\nExperience with containerization tools like Docker and orchestration using Kubernetes.\nFamiliarity with Agile methodologies and Scrum practices.\nKnowledge of monitoring and logging tools (e.g., ELK stack, Datadog, New Relic).\nFamiliarity with serverless architectures\nWhat You Can Expect From Us\nWe won't just meet your expectations. We'll defy them. So you'll enjoy the comprehensive rewards package you'd expect from a leading technology company. But also, a degree of personal flexibility you might not expect. Plus, thoughtful perks, like flexible working hours and your birthday off.\nAnd we don't just talk about diversity and inclusion. We live it every day - with thriving networks including dh Gender Equality Network, dh Proud, dh Family, dh One, dh Enabled and dh Thrive as the living proof. We want everyone to have the opportunity to shine and perform at your best throughout our recruitment process - please let your recruiter know what adjustments would help.\nIndia Benefits\nHealthcare & Family Cover: Group Medical Insurance of INR 500,000 for employees and dependents, plus dental and vision cover up to INR 5,000. \nProtection: Group Term Life Insurance and Group Personal Accident cover with benefit levels linked to employee grade, including disability benefits. \nRetirement & Wellbeing: Provident Fund, Gratuity, National Pension Scheme access, Indian Health Organisation membership, and confidential employee assistance support. \nLifestyle & Flexibility: Office commute support, internet allowance of INR 2,000 per month for blended working, work-from-home kit support, subsidised food, and wellbeing resources. \nRecognition & Extras: Long service awards, Talent Scout referral programme, and family milestone support. \n Time Off & Family Leave: 25 days holiday plus 10 public holidays, paid maternity, paternity and adoption leave, and a day off for your birthday.","description_format":"text","description_chars":5505,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":2,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Flexible schedule","Health insurance","Life insurance","Parental leave"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"India","iso":"IN","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Advertising","Customer & Retention Analytics","Retail & Pricing Analytics"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-21T05:56:32Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":8,"expected_fill_days":47,"reasons":["conf:2","velocity","win:early","comp:junior"],"computed_at":"2026-10-29T05:49:05Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/dunnhumby-software-engineer-backend","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/dunnhumby-software-engineer-backend.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-29T23:39:37Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":34793,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-30T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":51494},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=51494"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fdunnhumby-software-engineer-backend"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fdunnhumby-software-engineer-backend"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fdunnhumby-software-engineer-backend"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/dunnhumby-software-engineer-backend\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fdunnhumby-software-engineer-backend"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":2978639}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"dunnhumby.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":2978639},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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