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Lead Software Engineer at Shell
London, United Kingdom


Job Descrption
, United Kingdom


Job Family Group:

Information Technology (IT)


Worker Type:

Regular


Posting Start Date:

July 27, 2023


Business unit:

Projects and Technology


Experience Level:

Experienced Professionals


Job Description:

Join an IT community passionate about innovation and investing in people. We collaborate to develop scalable solutions that create business value and open new possibilities, learning from experts across fields to combine commercial acumen with technical and data expertise.

Where you fit in

Our Crude & Products Software Engineering CC builds the software engineering capability required for the solutions of today and the future. We focus on creating quality, secure code; designing and building innovative products, and scalable digital solutions that enable the ambitions for our Crude and Product businesses. Our capability focuses on Native Software Engineering, Salesforce Software Engineering and Crude and Products Core Systems Software Engineering.

What's the role

As a Lead Software Engineer, you will informally lead a team of skilled software engineers, providing technical guidance and expertise while actively contributing to the development and maintenance on a project/product in Crude & Products as a Tech lead. They are expected to be a community leader and have continuous improvement mindset, driving value-based process, product/application optimization and technology roadmap.


Furthermore, your responsibilities include the following:

  • Solution consultation and development in accordance with the enterprise technology principles, methods, standards, and practices

  • Estimation, solution design, detailed technical design, application technical deliverables including code, associated tests and documentation

  • Contribution to functional excellence in terms of definition and maintenance of standards, methods and tools, bringing in best practices from market standard implementations

  • Manage complex integration scenarios and interfaces between on-premise solutions, cloud and legacy systems

  • Provide Software Engineering leadership and expertise on a product or project team with indirect leadership of software engineers on the team

  • Collaborate and engage with Tech Leads across Crude and Products to implement best practices, identify areas of opportunity and improvements

  • Provide technical guidance and mentorship to team members, promoting Software Engineering standards and principles

  • Ownership of critical technical decisions to ensure development is following best practices, coding and security standards and industry standards

  • Participate in the analysis, design, coding, testing, and debugging of complex enhancements ensuring high-quality deliverables within project deadlines

  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including the product managers, architects and other Technical Leads across the Trading portfolio and other parts of Shell

  • Identify and mitigate technical risks and challenges, proactively proposing innovative solutions and improvements to enhance system performance, reliability and scalability to ensure business continuity

  • Be a thought leader – track and embed emerging technologies, trends and best practices

  • Promote and champion knowledge sharing across the software engineers

  • Conduct code reviews, ensuring code quality, performance, and adherence to SEMS policies

  • Actively participate in the broader Software Engineering initiatives

What we need from you

We're excited to connect with candidates who possess the following qualifications and are ready to take on the challenge:

  • Extensive software development experience broadly ranging from front-end, back-end, cloud automation and orchestration with depth across the stack.

  • Significant domain experience in energy trading

  • Back-End Development:

-Expert in one or more of the programming languages (.Net, .Net Core, Python, Golang, C++ etc) with Cloud Native Platform Development (AWS/ Azure etc)

-Expert in one or more of Data Development (SQL Databases, No SQL, Cloud Datastores etc) technologies

  • Front-End Development:

-Expert in one or more of the front-end development technologies (React, Angular, Vue, Android- Kotlin, iOS- Swift, Flutter etc.)

  • Proficient in Cloud Native Deployment with CI/CD Pipelines. [One of GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps] into serverless containers (Kubernetes, Docker)

  • Experience in Agile teams applying the best architectural, design, unit testing patterns & practices with an eye for code quality and standards.

  • Demonstrated broader community presence with publications and accreditations.

  • Deep Understanding and Championing of the Software Engineering discipline principles and initiatives

  • Promote and embody a culture of learning as we deepen domain and technical skills

  • Strong stakeholder, interpersonal, communication, and negotiation skills

  • Proven ability to deliver results in a matrix organization driving delivery excellence through influence and team working

  • Ability to operate in a virtual cross-cultural organization

  • Self-starter with good analysis and problem-solving skills

COMPANY DESCRIPTION

Shell is a global group of energy and petrochemicals companies with over 90,000 employees in more than 70 countries and territories. We deliver energy responsibly; operate safely with respect to our neighbours and work to minimize our environmental impact. We are in search of remarkable people who will thrive in a diverse and inclusive work environment to deliver exciting projects locally and globally. People who are passionate about exploring new frontiers. Innovators and pioneers. People with the drive to help shape our future. Because remarkable people achieve remarkable things.

An innovative place to work

There’s never been a more exciting time to work at Shell. Everyone here is helping solve one of the biggest challenges facing the world today: bringing the benefits of energy to everyone on the planet, whilst managing the risks of climate change.

Join us and you’ll add your talent and imagination to a business with the power to shape the future – whether by investing in renewables, exploring new ways to store energy or developing technology that helps the world to use energy more efficiently.

An inclusive place to work

To power progress together, we need to attract and develop the brightest minds and make sure every voice is heard. Here are just some of the ways we’re nurturing an inclusive environment – one where you can express your ideas, extend your skills and reach your potential…

  • We’re creating a space where people with disabilities can excel through transparent recruitment process, workplace adjustments and ongoing support in their roles. Feel free to let us know about your circumstances when you apply and we’ll take it from there.

  • We’re closing the gender gap – whether that’s through action on equal pay or by enabling more women to reach senior roles in engineering and technology.

  • We’re striving to be a pioneer of an inclusive and diverse workplace, promoting equality for employees regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity.

  • We consider ourselves a flexible employer and want to support you finding the right balance. We encourage you to discuss this with us in your application.

A rewarding place to work

Combine our creative, collaborative environment and global operations with an impressive range of benefits and joining Shell becomes an inspired career choice.

We’re huge advocates for career development. We’ll encourage you to try new roles and experience new settings. By pushing people to reach their potential, we frequently help them find skills they never knew they had, or make career moves they never thought possible.

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