IT Software Engineer
About the role
Must be able to work independently within defined projects/work streams and is checked on at the end for results. Possesses a strong understanding of large-scale application architecture and design. Must have strong communication skills, particularly in collaborating with external parties, including business stakeholders. This is essential.
Has an executional role in design and development projects or acts as an expert tester who designs test scripts and provides overall project guidance and planning support. Advises internally on solving functional and technical problems regarding the assigned applications and infrastructure.
Project: Deal Entry Portal (DEP). Shell trades on several different exchanges to achieve the best execution for the business, and these trades are required to be entered into Shell’s Enterprise Risk Management Systems (ETRMs) in a timely manner to provide accurate management information, including P&L data. This is currently a manual process with trades being entered on a best-endeavours basis throughout the day, therefore sometimes many hours passing between trade execution and trade entry.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with the lead functional developer to define, develop, test, and release new features.
- Provide workarounds and bug fixes for urgent production issues.
Requirements
- API development using Python as OOP.
- Experience in how distributed asynchronous systems work, how to design them to avoid data conflicts, and how to do it all in immutable environments orchestrated across multiple machines.
- Experience with database technologies such as SQL DB, Oracle.
- Experience with Docker, Kafka, Kubernetes, and Microsoft Azure/AWS, GitHub, or experience with any kind of message broker system (e.g., RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, AWS SQS etc.).
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, coding, testing, and automation skills.
- Object-oriented software professional that ideally has experience using at least one strongly-typed language.
- Familiar with DevOps, Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment.
- Experience at mentoring junior staff.
You must be a US Citizen or Permanent US Resident to qualify for this position.