Client: Large Multinational Oil and Gas Company

Experience: 5+ Years

Position Purpose:
Work with multidisciplinary team to analyze and develop requirements for information management suite of products in the Upstream Oil & Gas space. Propose solutions addressing functional and non-functional requirements. Lead in making technology choices. Mentor more junior developers as required.

Special Knowledge and Skills:
· Must-haves for all projects:
o 4+ years of experience in a back-end programming language is a must, preferably Java.
o Experience with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
o Experience with any of the public cloud environment (GCP, AWS, Azure)
o Knowledge of Restful architecture, application networking and troubleshooting
o Experience of application profiling and bottleneck analysis
o Hands-on in the Continuous Integration and Delivery arena.
o Experience working with Agile methodologies (SCRUM in particular)
o Reactive programming and functional programing techniques
o Experience creating automated tests using unit testing frameworks
· Additional must-haves for one of the two projects:
o Scala is the main language for PSS. Candidates with Java and JEE experience who are eager to learn Scala will also be considered.
o Strong working experience with Akka Actor System
o Strong understanding of multi-threading and distributed applications
o Experience with NoSQL databases (e.g., Cassandra, Bigtable)
· Nice-to-have:
o Oil & Gas domain knowledge
o Knowledge on Big Data concepts and tools
o Knowledge of tradeoffs among PaaS, CaaS and IaaS cloud-based solutions
o Knowledge of site reliability management (operational readiness in particular)
o Experience in any front-end technologies (Angular, JS, NodeJS, ReactJS) is a plus.
o Experience resolving code quality issues and security vulnerability issues reported by scanning tools.
· Soft skills:
o Team player. Good interpersonal and communication skills.
o Proactive and self-driven; eager to learn, curious and capable of multi-tasking.
o A mentoring spirit, able to share knowledge and expertise.

Job functions:
· Analyze requirements, design develop & maintain software products in alignment with the technology strategy of the organization
· Produce prototypes to illustrate technology options and mitigate risks
· Conduct and/or participate in technical reviews of requirements, specifications, designs, code and other artifacts. Ensure commitments are agreed, reviewed and met.
· Contribute to design standards and support designs re-use (best practices, etc.).
· Contributes to development plan by providing task estimates.
· Provide operational support when needed.
· Prepare technical documentation to field and/or customers in a timely fashion.
· May mentor others regarding technical matters.
· Share expertise and expand his/her informal network throughout the organization: field, research, engineering, manufacturing and other domains.
· May author/co-author technical reports, papers, articles, patents and presentations.
· Identify and keep abreast of novel technical concepts and markets.
· Learn new skills and adopt new practices readily in order to develop innovative and innovative software products that maintain Company's technical leadership position.
· Write automated tests (unit tests, integration tests, etc.).

Backend Software Engineer - Scala