Entity:
Technology
Job Family Group:
IT&S Group
Job Description:
At bp, we provide an excellent working environment and employee benefits such as an open and inclusive culture, a great work-life balance, tremendous learning and development opportunities to craft your career path, life and health insurance, medical care package and many others.
Let me tell you about the role
As a Principal Software Engineer, you have passion for automation and an aim to take on ambitious problems in innovative ways to lead by example, motivate, and challenge other leaders to deliver your best work. Your ability to empower, challenge, and coach senior technology leaders, and your passion for problem-solving and creating innovative solutions, will be crucial in delivering the next generation of software and services.
What you will deliver
Design sophisticated software and services that provide strategic impact. You’ll write design documents that define the future and review them with your platform engineering and architecture peers, incorporating and quickly iterating on the feedback
Provide technical leadership to the engineering teams in delivery of your suite of software and services to production
You’ll work closely with partner teams to help evolve their systems to make all of our software, platform and services more re-usable and resilient
Partner closely with multi-functional teams including product management, data science, and UX design
Hire and develop others by mentoring junior software engineers and peers, and proactively sharing your expertise and interests with others
Stay up-to-date with the latest technologies and industry trends
Set strategy and establish standard methodologies for platform engineering
Inspire and mobilize a team of engineers to achieve project goals
Collaborate with multi-functional teams to identify and resolve software-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 multi-functional teams to implement new controls and procedures to address identified compliance gaps or risks
Monitor regulatory developments and industry trends to ensure that the organization stays up-to-date on emerging compliance requirements
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
Authority in problem-solving, with the ability to analyze complex problems, identify root causes, and develop creative and effective solutions
Authority in the ability to adapt to new technologies and processes, and work independently and as part of a team
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
Authority in Claude Code or similar and at least one programming language (C#, Python, or TypeScript) developing cross-platform solutions.
Validated experience in writing secure, stable, testable, and maintainable code with minimal defects
Validated hands on experience in systems design
Expertise in writing secure, stable, testable, and maintainable code with minimal defects
Demonstrable experience in software development, with a focus on platform or service engineering
Hands on experience & expertise in softwarevstandard methodology practices & best practices for full software development process, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operations
Expert in designing and building complex…