Software Engineer (Python + Kafka or Python + Azure Service Bus)

Position: Software Engineer (Python + Kafka or Python + Azure Service Bus)

Location: 1000 Main Street Houston, TX 77210 (Hybrid Role)

The client is a large oil & gas company, this is a stable opportunity for at least for 1 year with high probability to extend for multiple years and many opportunities to grow within the team. Work is done on large-scale marketplace in the energy sector, desktop and web application, microservices architecture.

MUST have skills:

Python API Development

Understanding of multi-process event-driven systems (Kafka, Azure Service Bus, RabbitMQ)

What We Need From You:

• 5-8 years of experience in developing software solutions with at least 3 years of relevant experience in Microsoft technologies:

relevant experience in Azure services (ACR, Azure Service Bus, Azure Blob Storage, Vault, Azure SQL server, etc. )

• Would also like to add containerization technologies like Docker and working in virtual environments.

• Excellent communication skills and stakeholder management skills

• Experience with backend technologies such as Python, JavaScript

• Experience with database technologies such as SQL DB, Oracle

• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and Microsoft Azure/AWS, GitHub

• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, coding, testing, and automation skills

• Passion for performance, accessibility, and reliability improvements

• Familiar with DevOps, Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment

• A solid background in Computer Science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, and deftness at object-oriented design and systems architecture

Job Description

This role is within Trading and Supply business, one of the world's largest energy trading operations in the world.

In line with the Powering Progress agenda, both businesses are increasing their share of low carbon fuels / solutions to support decarbonization of our customers’ energy consumption and generating cash to support our broader low carbon investments.

Where You Fit In

Our capability focuses on Native Software Engineering, Power Platform by Microsoft, Salesforce Software Engineering and Crude and Products Core Systems Software Engineering.

The Role

As Software Engineer/Senior Software Engineer, we expect you to have proven experience in adhering to software engineering best practices, delivering software products/applications generating business value. They are expected to have continuous improvement mindset, driving value-based process, product/application optimization.

Your further responsibilities include the following

• Solution consultation and development in accordance with the enterprise technology principles, methods, standards, and practices

• Stakeholder Management - Drives a One Team mindset

• Business Intelligence - Understands T&S business domain and impacts of industry movements

• Experience in how distributed asynchronous systems work, how to design them to avoid data conflicts and how to do it all in immutable environments orchestrated across multiple machines.

• We need an object-orientated software professional that ideally has experience using at least one strongly-typed language.

• Estimation, solution design, detailed technical design, application technical deliverables including code, associated tests, and documentation

• Contribution to functional excellence in term