Staff Software Engineer

Entity: Technology Job Family Group: IT&S Group Job Description: BP PLC is seeking a highly skilled Staff Software Engineer to drive the design, development, and deployment of robust software solutions, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement within our engineering teams. Let me tell you about the role As a Staff Software Engineer, you will act as a technical expert, mentor, and coach, providing guidance and support to your team, while fostering a positive and productive work environment. You will also be responsible for setting project and squad goals, prioritizing and executing on initiatives, and delivering results in a product-led, empowered environment and their leadership skills, ability to manage multiple stakeholders, and experience in software development and engineering will be essential to this role. What you will deliver 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 best practices 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 cross-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 cross-functional teams to implement new controls and procedures to address identified compliance gaps or risks What you will need to be successful (experience and qualifications) Technical skills we need from you Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Computer Information Systems or equivalent work experience Master ability to adapt to new technologies and processes, and be able to work independently and as part of a team Master 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 Software skills Master in at least one programming language (C#, Python, or TypeScript) developing cross-platform solutions. Master in writing secure, stable, testable, and maintainable code with minimal defects Master in systems design Demonstrable experience in software development, with a focus on platform or service engineering Master in software engineering practices & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operations Master 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 best practices 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 Master in the understanding of using core cloud application infrastructure services including identity platforms, networking, storage, databases, containers, and serverless Master in troubleshooting large-scale distributed production systems Demonstrable experience working on production systems. You’ll have supported these production systems through on-call rotations Database skills Competent knowledge of databases, such as relational, graph, document, and key-value Master ability in data modeling and database design Master ability in SQL Skills that set you apart Possess a passion for mentoring and coaching engineers in both technical and soft skills You have a product-centric mindset that you use to understand business needs. You have the technical and interpersonal skills to collaboratively design scalable systems and engi