Staff Software Engineer

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• 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
• Be responsible for 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
• Manage and lead others by mentoring junior software engineers and peers, and proactively sharing your expertise and interests with others
• Participate in code reviews and chip in 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 vital 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

• 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 sophisticated 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

• 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
• 10+ years of experience in software development, with a focus on platform or service engineering
• Master in software engineering practices & standard processes 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 efficiently 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

• 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
• 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
• Master ability in data modeling and database design
• Master ability in SQL