Lead Software Engineer

Job Description:

About us:

OPIS, a Dow Jones company, is one of the world's most comprehensive sources for petroleum pricing and news information. OPIS provides real-time and historical spot, wholesale/rack and retail fuel prices for the refined products, renewable fuels and natural gas and gas liquids (LPG) industries. We deliver award-winning news, market intelligence and transparency to the entire refined energy marketplace and companies looking to go carbon neutral. At its core, OPIS uses a set of complex IT systems and tools, handling huge amounts of data in a reliable way, and providing customers with business applications to use this data as efficiently as possible.

We architect and design for high-availability, scalable, and fault tolerant systems that are decoupled and easy-to-maintain. A core part of our development philosophy revolves around microservices and the DevOps model. All new products are developed as microservices, with a focus on cloud native development and containers deployed on Container as a Service (CaaS) container management systems. The developers on our teams subscribe to a DevOps model where time to market (TTM) is a vital measure that we are constantly striving to improve. Quality is imperative and SQA is considered a part of the development process. As such, automated unit testing, regression, and integration tests are considered a key part of reaching our TTM goals.

About the Role

Are you an analytical thinker and passionate about problem solving? This is a unique opportunity to join a passionate team focused on delivering high quality products to a critical section of the economy. This team builds and maintains core systems used by our customers around the world. To fit this role, we are looking for that unique mix of solid technical capabilities, blended with strong interpersonal skills.

You Will:

As an experienced and solution-oriented Lead Software Engineer your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to: working with our product teams to provide timely, and performant solutions; contribute to the design of scalable data solutions, including the development of automated pipelines; maintain database systems to ensure the availability and consistent performance of our application suite; understand and define our data requirements and identify data needs and data sources to create scalable data architecture and support enhancements, new product and implementation. You will be a leader training team members guiding both employee and team growth.

• Write, build and deploy code

• Analyze business application requirements, identify concerns and develop action plans

• Be part of an Agile team, leading the development team, using our latest software development life-cycle, working closely with team members from Romania and US

• Leverage our Cloud infrastructure (AWS) to design solutions that make the best of it

• Maintain existing legacy applications

• Track down and resolve bugs in any OPIS code base

• Follow best practice development standards (such as continuous integration and deployment)

You Have:

• Bachelor's Degree in computer science or related technical field

• 4+ years hands-on software development experience

• Knowledge of OOP principles

• Strong knowledge of C# and Microsoft .Net framework

• Knowledge of HTML/CSS/JavaScript

• Experience with a relational database engine - SQL Server (or PostgreSQL)

• Experience with modern software development life-cycle

• A strong analytical thinker with a love for planning and organization who can manage competing demands with minimal supervision

• A structured developer, with good time-management skills

We'd also love to hear about your experiences with any of the following:

• Degrees, Certifications, or awards/recognition that you have achieved

• Knowledge of SDLC, Agile methodology and/or SCRUM

• Experience working with scripts under source control (Git/TFVC/Mercurial/Svn/etc)

• Experience being part of a continuous integration and deployment process

• Experience using database monitoring tools (like tools from SolarWinds or RedGate)

Our Benefits

• Comprehensive Healthcare Plans

• Paid Time Off

• Retirement Plans

• Comprehensive Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance Plans

• Education Benefits

• Paid Maternity and Paternity Leave

• Family Care Benefits

• Commuter Transit Program

• Subscription Discounts

• Employee Referral Program

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Reasonable accommodation: Dow Jones, Making Careers Newsworthy - We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. EEO/AA/M/F/Disabled/Vets. Dow Jones is committed to providing reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities, in our job application and/or interview process. If you need assistance or accommodation in completing your application, due to a disability, email us at [email protected]. Please put "Reasonable Accommodation" in the subject line and provide a brief description of the type of assistance you need. This inbox will not be monitored for application status updates.

Business Area:

OPIS

Job Category:

Software Product Engineering

Union Status:

Non-Union role