Staff Software Engineer

Salary: £59,000 - 99,000 per year

Requirements:

• We require a bachelors or masters degree in computer science, or equivalent experience.
• We require proven experience with planlogic EOS ETRM and Palantir Foundry.
• We require demonstrated IT industry experience designing, planning, implementing, maintaining, and documenting solutions.
• We require proven experience designing, building, and transforming big data in Palantir, including code repositories, contour, and workshop.
• We require experience leading a team of data engineers in an agile environment using scrums, tasks, and prioritisation.
• We require ownership of scheduling and ingestion using tools such as Stonebranch (UAC) and AWS.
• We require strong software engineering development skills.
• We require strong communication skills to translate business requirements independently into a full data workflow from ingestion to presentation layer.
• We require strong software engineering design capabilities and understanding of computational complexity.
• We require hands-on experience in C#, object-oriented Python, Spark/PySpark, and related C# and Python framework ecosystems.
• We require the ability to debug and resolve issues in large datasets quickly.
• We require experience coordinating handoffs between time zones and allocating priorities to a development team.
• We value experience in other trading systems or ETRMs, operational experience running business-critical systems, DevOps experience with AWS and Azure DevOps in a Linux environment, Power BI and business analysis experience, and market data experience such as Trayport and Ice.

Responsibilities:

• We lead, design, develop, and maintain digital products in our LNG Energy Trading and Risk Management landscape.
• We design sophisticated backend components, services, platforms, and RESTful APIs for seamless communication with the front end.
• We design front-end components and integrate them with back-end systems to enable smooth data exchange.
• We design pipelines to ingest data and monitor datasets.
• We continuously review services and components to identify improvement opportunities.
• We identify and address technical debt.
• We influence and deliver the product roadmap to improve our KPIs and deliver business value.
• We develop our teams software engineering and data analytical skills.
• We own our teams culture and ways of working, promoting high-quality code, tests, and best practices.
• We write hands-on code in Python, SQL, and C#.
• We mentor and line-manage team members.
• We work closely with business users, stakeholders, software engineers, product managers, UX designers, data analysts, scientists, tech leads, and architects.
• We participate in feature development, performance enhancements, and technical support for other teams.
• We contribute to the evolution of the current technology platform and the long-term strategy and roadmap.

Technologies:

• AWS
• Azure
• Big Data
• Backend
• C#
• DevOps
• Support
• Linux
• Power BI
• Python
• PySpark
• SQL
• Spark
• UX UI Design
• Cloud
• Network
• OOP

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We are bp, and our purpose is to deliver energy to the world, today and tomorrow. For over 100 years, we have focused on discovering, developing, and producing oil and gas in the countries where we operate, and we are one of the few companies globally able to provide governments and customers with an integrated energy offering. Our LNG Physical Trading business sits at the heart of our trading activities, supported by an application ecosystem that enables trade capture, operations, analytics, risk, reporting, and finance. We offer a diverse and exciting environment with flexible working options, generous paid parental leave, excellent retirement benefits, and a hybrid office/remote working setup in London, United Kingdom. We support reasonable accommodation requests and are an equal opportunity employer. This role involves up to 10% travel and is not eligible for relocation.

last updated 34 week of 2026