Senior Software Engineer

Company Description

Wood Mackenzie are the global research, analytics, and consultancy business powering the natural resources industry. For 50 years, we have been providing the quality data, analytics, and insights our customers rely on to inspire their decision making.

Our dedicated oil, gas & LNG, power & renewables, chemicals, metals & mining sector teams are located around the world and deliver a variety of projects based on our assessment and valuation of thousands of individual assets, companies, and economic indicators such as market supply, demand, and price trends.

We have over 2.500 employees in 30 locations, serving customers in nearly 80 countries. Together, we inspire and innovate the markets we serve – providing invaluable intelligence to help our customers overcome the toughest challenges, and make strategic decisions that will, ultimately, accelerate the world’s transition to a more sustainable future.

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Job Description

This position is hybrid in our Boston office and will require a local candidate.

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.

Main Responsibilities

• 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

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science or a related field.
• 5-10 years of proven experience in software development and system maintenance.
• Strong background in a combination of the following: .Net/C#, Typescript, React, and/or Angular
• 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 would be considered a plus.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Expectations

• Excellent problem solving, and analysis skills coupled with great communication skills
• Strong organization and planning skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously
• A strong attention to detail
• Commitment to excellence and meeting high quality standards expected by our clients
• Experience in working in different delivery methodologies and an understanding of their benefits/constraints
• We are a hybrid working company and the successful applicant will be expected to be physically present in the office at least 2 days per week to foster and contribute to a collaborative environment, but this may be subject to change in the future.
• Due to the global nature of the team, a degree of flexible working will be required to accommodate different time zones.

Leadership

• Contribute to a culture of product development where solving problems for our customers is the highest priority.
• Communicate effectively across functions as required.

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.
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