Senior Software Engineer

Entity: Technology Job Family Group: IT&S Group Job Description: You will work with Trading operations is integral to the success of BP's Trading & Shipping organization. The operations team coordinates the safe, efficient, and reliable execution of the physical movements into and out of supply chain networks supporting our refineries, branded customer network, and trading business. We play a vital role in moving product between suppliers, refineries, terminals, and customers across all modes of transportation including pipelines, rail, truck, intra terminal movements, barges, and vessels. This is a unique opportunity to partner with our commodities trading business, to deliver creative technology solutions, adding commercial value as well as achieving our carbon net-zero goals. We have an exciting and challenging, digital vision to support business growth while redefining the day-to-day activities of operators through increased automation. As an engineer on this project, you will collaborate with Product Managers and partners to design, develop and maintain enterprise scale software systems and tools. As part of a global team working on a global product, you will lead one of the squads. This role offers the opportunity to apply your technical expertise to build new features, enhance existing functionality, and ensure the product remains highly reliable. You will be able to share your technical expertise within and externally to your squad. We follow an agile methodology. Multiple squads contribute to the product, and we continuously refine and prioritize requirements to deliver the greatest value to our clients as quickly as possible. You will play a pivotal role in shaping the direction of the product and the technology as the products are adopted by new markets over the coming months and years. The role As Senior Software Engineer, you will be a technical specialist, working within a highly effective team. You will input into project and squad goals, prioritize and complete initiatives, and deliver results in a product-led environment. You will help create and maintain, a safe and collaborative culture, in which your software development and engineering experience will be important for success in this role. What you will deliver Collaborate with the product leads and other technical leads to understand requirements, estimation and help refine roadmap. Help maintain a high technical bar for the team both in code quality as well as testing coverage, monitoring and observability. Deliver customer value iteratively, serve as a technical lead, and own projects end-to-end. Communicating status and changes to partners, designing test automation, and collaborating with internal and external teams to bring new platforms to market are key responsibilities. Maintain and enhance software frameworks and participate in code reviews, and resolve platform-related issues. Support and assist during production issues. Support audit teams for security, software licensing, and regulatory audits, and implement new controls and procedures to address compliance gaps or risks. What you will need to be successful (experience and qualifications) Self-starter with excellent communication skills, adept at handling ambiguity, navigating uncertainty, and influencing peers through to senior leadership. Strong experience working on the backend of a technology product. Strong experience in Java, Spring Boot Microservices including: writing unit tests (JUnit/Mockito), working with JPA/Hibernate, and debugging distributed applications. Some experience with React or another modern frontend framework. Solid understanding of SQL and relational database design. Ideally experience with Kubernetes and AWS, including containerised deployment of JEE applications. Experience working within a full stack team using agile delivery practices. Skilled in troubleshooting large-scale distributed production systems. Product-centric mindset with the ability to understand business needs and design scalable, resilient systems and solutions. Strong empathy and curiosity to create exceptional user experiences. Skills: Core Technical Skills Java (8+) and JEE — advanced proficiency including concurrency, design patterns, and performance tuning RESTful API design and development Microservices architecture and design PostgreSQL — query optimisation, indexing, schema design, and stored procedures Relational data modelling and database design Unit testing, integration testing, and TDD (JUnit, Mockito) Object-oriented design and SOLID principles Cloud & Infrastructure AWS cloud services — EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS, S3, Lambda, IAM Kubernetes and container orchestration (Docker, Helm) CI/CD pipeline design and management (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or equivalent) Configuration management and release management Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or CloudFormation — desirable) Software Engineering Practices Secure development and OWASP best practices Source control and code managem