Principal/Senior Software Engineer

Company Description

We help the world see new possibilities and inspire change for better tomorrows. Our analytic solutions bridge content, data, and analytics to help business, people, and society become stronger, more resilient, and sustainable.

Job Description

We are growing and so we are looking for Senior and Lead Software Engineers.  

Your role will sit within an Agile team developing products deal with a variety of applications and broad set of technologies, datasets and cross industry requirements. You will help drive the development and integration of these products.  We will need you to ensure adherence to best practice in building modern software architectures with well-designed APIs. 

Qualifications

• full stack software engineer. 

• Strong background in a combination of the following: C#, Python, Typescript, Angular, and/or React 

• Must have background in Perl

• Solid knowledge of modern enterprise and cloud architectures (e.g. microservices, serverless, event driven, reactive) and containerization methodologies. 

• Expert level knowledge of multiple technology stacks, object-oriented design approaches and enterprise design patterns 

• Strong data engineering foundation gained in developing commercial applications with traditional (SQL, Postgres, etc) and NOSQL databases (Elasticsearch, Neo4j, MongoDB, etc) and streaming data (Kafka) 

• Hands on experience with application optimization, scaling, and security. Particularly caching strategies, and large-scale distributed computing 

• Commercial product or analysis experience with commodities market datasets, data feeds and industry conventions is a plus. 

Leadership 

• Lead a culture of product development where solving problems for our customers is the highest priority. 

• Act as, and be seen as a technical authority within engineering teams 

• Identify emerging technologies or applications and the opportunities to integrate them into our operations and activities 

• Communicate effectively across functions as required 

Delivery 

• Lead implementation and delivery ensuring coding, unit testing, system integration, defect resolution, and technical documentation adheres to our standards 

• Proactively identify problems with requirements and communicates these issues early to help course-correct 

• Assist in troubleshooting and support efforts for existing systems and applications, focused on improving our existing systems and applications 

• Promote shared ownership of code though code reviews, standards, and documentation 

• Participate in the definition and implementation of the engineering team roadmap. 

Collaboration 

• Work in collaboration with team members to perform scoping, estimation, and technology feasibility tasks for the intended solution 

• Manage dependencies among engineering activities and constantly monitor, assess, and control the technical execution 

• Address technical queries and elicit, prioritize, and negotiate changes to requirements and defects 

• Contribute to system and data issue identification and resolution within teams across the organization 

Quality 

• Anticipating technical problems that will fall out of major products and designing solutions to overcome those problems 

• Promote a culture of code quality and continuous improvement 

• Drive the importance of data accuracy from internal and external sources 

Additional Information

Wood Mackenzie is the global leader in data, analysis and consulting across the energy, chemicals, metals, mining, power and renewables sectors.

Founded in 1973, our success has always been underpinned by the simple principle of providing trusted research and advice that makes a difference to our customers. Today we have over 2,000 customers ranging from the largest global energy companies and financial institutions to governments as well as smaller market specialists.

Our teams are located around the world. This enables us to stay closely connected with customers and the markets and sectors we cover. Collectively this allows us to offer a compelling combination of global commodity analysis with detailed local market knowledge.

We are committed to supporting our people to grow and thrive. We value different perspectives and aspire to create an inclusive environment that encourages diversity and fosters a sense of belonging. We are committed to creating a workplace that works for you and encourage everyone to get involved in our Wellness, Diversity and Inclusion, and Community Engagem