Senior Software Engineer

What’s the role

As a Senior Software Engineer, we are looking for an individual with proven experience in providing technical and process guidance and mentoring the team to set them up for long term success. We and our extended team in Shell focus on Oil Market Analysis.

We build complex data products around the fundamentals of oil market that provides innovative and often industry first insight that supports our commodities trading business. You'll be challenged to think and do differently, with the opportunity to get involved at all stages from discovery and design to embedding and scaling.

What you’ll be doing

• Work in a product team to deliver the backlog items on product development and enhancement.
• Champion and drive the technology best practices.
• Mentor and coach the junior engineers.
• Work with your users, stakeholders and delivery team to understand and deliver value through your product.
• Align with technical leaders to shape and implement Shell's strategy

What you bring

• Minimum 9 years’ experience in Data Development (T-SQL / SQL /Azure Data Factory/ Azure SQL/etc.)
• Experience in Python FastAPI development, Spark/pySpark, Typescript/React and other programming frameworks and paradigm
• Able to mix strategic and pragmatic approaches to drive product delivery
• Experience in leading an engineering team
• You have a very strong technical knowledge in current web technologies, cloud services, and infrastructure
• Strong experience in delivering multiple global products
• Knowledge of other Cloud (Azure etc) is highly desirable.
• Knowledge of containers and functions is highly desirable.
• Demonstrated application of the best patterns & practices in the software development life cycle.
• Experience working in agile teams with demonstrated application of the principles, including facilitation of the planning process.

What we offer

You bring your skills and experience to Shell and in return you work with talented, committed people on one of the most important challenges facing our planet. You’ll have the opportunity to develop the skills you need to grow in an environment where we value honesty, integrity, and respect for one another. You’ll be able to balance your priorities as you become the best version of yourself.

• Progress as a person as we work on the energy transition together.
• Continuously grow the transferable skills you need to get ahead.
• Work at the forefront of technology, trends, and practices.
• Collaborate with experienced colleagues with unique expertise.
• Achieve your balance in a values-led culture that encourages you to be the best version of yourself.
• Benefit from flexible working hours, and the possibility of remote/mobile working.
• Perform at your best with a competitive starting salary and annual performance related salary increase – our pay and benefits packages are considered to be among the best in the world.
• Take advantage of paid parental leave, including for non-birthing parents.
• Join an organisation working to become one of the most diverse and inclusive in the world. We strongly encourage applicants of all genders, ages, ethnicities, cultures, abilities, sexual orientation, and life experiences to apply.
• Grow as you progress through diverse career opportunities in national and
• international teams.
• Gain access to a wide range of training and development programmes.