Principal 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.

Chemical Market Analytics by OPIS, a Dow Jones company, provides price benchmarks, analytics, advisory services and forecasting capabilities for the world’s most important base chemicals. It is also a growing provider of data and insights in plastic circularity, carbon pricing and sustainability.

OPIS is seeking an experienced, driven and future thinking Principal Software Engineer, located in our Gdansk, Poland office, in our Chemical Market Analytics Product Technology division. This role is a leader within our development teams, responsible for offering innovative technical and architectural direction across multiple agile development teams.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead one or more development teams of 5-7 developers using Agile practices (Kanban / Scrum)

Lead the development of our web-based platforms and tools to process and analyze large amounts of data for business analytics

Will be expected to continuously contribute code to systems under development

Serve as mentor and coach to teammates and promote knowledge sharing and communication across product development teams

Assist in migrations from legacy systems

Redesign systems to fit modern cloud architectures

Leverage, maintain and improve automation and pipelines (continuous integration and deployment)

Collaborate closely with developers, testers, stakeholders and internal customers

Advocate, contribute and ensure alignment to organizational standards and best practices

Champion the appropriate use of technology and provide leadership in balancing technical elegance with functional requirements and practical benefits, as we implement and integrate technologies

YOUR EXPERTISE

Full project life-cycle experience – from design to successful production releases

Strong knowledge of software design concepts

Experience with designing modules and enterprise-grade systems

Experience with a variety of design patterns and selection approaches

Working knowledge of modern database concepts

ESTABLISHED EXPERTISE

Angular, React or other modern front-end frameworks

TypeScript, JavaScript

Git version control

SQL or any document database

Testing frameworks : NUnit, xUnit

AWS experience preferred

Docker, Terraform, Azure DevOps is a plus

DOES THIS SOUND LIKE YOU?

Strong, effective communication skills that bring multiple personalities and cultures together to work towards common goals

Excellent business judgement, know how to prioritize, when to collaborate and when to seek assistance

Seeks deep understanding of long-term business goals and strategies to ensure technological alignment

Cultivates, builds, and maintains partnerships with peers in development, product technology, business, and relevant experts

Passionate about managing and developing employees, goal setting, guiding career paths and growth opportunities

If these things strike a chord with you, we should talk.

WE’D ALSO LOVE TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR EXPERIENCES WITH ANY OF THE FOLLOWING :

Project management tools such as Azure DevOps, Jira, Workfront, Rally, Clarizen, Asana, etc.

Flow diagramming tools such as LucidChart, Visio, etc.

UX / UI mockup and prototyping tools such as Balsamiq, Sketch, PowerPoint, etc.

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 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 . 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 : Dow Jones - OPIS - CMA

Job Category : Software Product Engineering

Union Status : Non-Union role

Req ID : 41347