Staff Software Engineer

Entity:

Technology

Job Family Group:

IT&S Group

Job Description:

Join us in creating, growing, and delivering innovation at pace, enabling us to thrive while transitioning to a net zero ‎world. All without compromising our operational risk management.

Working with us, you can do this by:

• deploying our integrated capability and standards in service of our net zero and ‎safety ambitions

• driving our digital transformation and pioneering new business models

• collaborating to deliver competitive customer-focused energy solutions

• originating, scaling and commercializing innovative ideas, and creating ground-breaking new ‎businesses from them

• protecting us by assuring management of our greatest physical and digital risks.

Because together we are:

• Originators, builders, guardians and disruptors.‎

• Engineers, technologists, scientists and entrepreneurs.‎

• Empathetic, curious, creative and inclusive.

Role Synopsis

bp’s Technology organization is the central organization for all software and platform development. We build all the technology that powers bp’s businesses, from upstream energy production to downstream energy delivery to our customers. We have a variety of teams depending on your areas of interest, including infrastructure and backend services through to customer-facing web and native applications. We encourage our teams to adapt quickly by using native AWS and Azure services, including serverless, and enable them to pick the best technology for a given problem. This is meant to empower our software and platform engineers while allowing them to learn and develop themselves.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining the software solution and services that powers our technology platforms. In this role, you will lead a team of engineers and interested parties to ensure that the software is highly available, scalable, and secure. You will also be responsible for developing features, improving the software performance, and providing technical support to other teams.

Key Accountabilities

• Design sophisticated software components, services, and platforms. You’ll write design documents and review them with your software engineering and architecture peers, incorporating and quickly iterating on the feedback

• Lead the delivery of your projects to production. You’ll follow standard processes including writing high-quality code, developing unit, functional, and performance tests, and creating end-to-end deployment pipelines to production to maintain a fast velocity

• Integrate your software with other distributed systems and shared APIs across bp. You’ll work closely with partner teams to help evolve their systems to make all of our services more re-usable and resilient

• Partner closely with multi-functional teams including product management, data science, and UX design

• Stay up to date with the latest technologies and industry trends

• Hire and develop others by mentoring junior software engineers and peers, and proactively sharing your expertise and interests with others

• Participate in code reviews and contribute to the development of best practices 

• Collaborate with multi-functional teams to identify and resolve platform-related issues

• Support internal and external audit teams to prepare for and participate in security, software licensing, and regulatory audits, ensuring that all necessary documentation and evidence is available and accurate

• Collaborate with multi-functional teams to implement new controls and procedures to address identified compliance gaps or risks

Essential Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience

Essential Experience and Job Requirements:

• Expert ability to adapt to new technologies and processes, and be able to work independently and as part of a team

• Expert in problem-solving, with the ability to analyze complex problems, identify root causes, and develop creative and effective solutions

• Excellent communication skills and ability to communicate with your peers through to senior leaders. You should be able to engage and influence others to collect requirements, describe what you’re doing, work through problems, and find productive solutions

• Self-starter, able to handle ambiguity, navigate uncertainty, identify risks, and find the right people and tools to get the job done
  - Professional proficiency in English, with the ability to collaborate effectively across global teams; Portuguese proficiency is preferred for local collaboration.

Software skills

• Expert in at least one programming language (C#, Python, or TypeScript) developing cross-platform solutions.

• Expert in writing secure, stable, testable, and maintainable code with minimal defects

• Expert in systems design

• 10+ years of experience in software development, with a focus on platform or service engineering

• Expert in software engineering practices & protocols for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operations

• Expert in designing and building complex software systems end-to-end which have been optimally delivered and operated in production. You should understand security and privacy procedures as well as how to properly monitor, log, and alarm production systems

Infrastructure skills

• Master in building and scaling infrastructure services using Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure

• Expert in the understanding of using core cloud application infrastructure services including identity platforms, networking, storage, databases, containers, and serverless

• Expert in solving large-scale distributed production systems

• 10+ years of experience working on production systems. You’ll have supported these production systems through on-call rotations
• Competent knowledge of databases, such as relational, graph, document, and key-value

• Expert ability in data modeling and database design

• Expert ability in SQL

Why join us

At bp, we support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and ambitious environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment in which everyone is respected and treated fairly.

BEWARE – RECRUITMENT FRAUD It has come to our attention that there are a number of fraudulent emails from people pretending to work for bp. Please be advised that we do not require any forms of payment or course by applicants to be considered for open positions.

Travel Requirement

No travel is expected with this role

Relocation Assistance:

This role is not eligible for relocation

Remote Type:

This position is a hybrid of office/remote working

Skills:

Agility core practices, Agility core practices, API and platform design, Cloud Platforms, Collaboration, Communication, Configuration management and release, Continuous deployment and release, Creating a high performing team, Database Design, Digital Project Management, Documentation and knowledge sharing, Emerging technology monitoring, Facilitation, Information Security, Mentoring, Metrics definition and instrumentation, NoSql data modelling, Problem Solving, Relational Data Modeling, Risk Management, Scripting, Secure development, Service operations and resiliency, Software Design and Development {+ 7 more}

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