Senior Software Engineer - ST&S

Company: BP
Location: United Kingdom - London
Workplace: This position is a hybrid of office/remote working
Employment: Full time

Entity: Technology
Job Family Group: IT&S Group

Job Description

About bp

At bp, we’re redefining our business to deliver a net zero future while continuing to provide the energy the world needs today.

Innovation & Engineering brings together engineers, technologists, scientists and entrepreneurs to create and scale technology that delivers measurable value across bp. We are driving digital transformation, developing new business models and building innovative solutions that improve how we operate, trade and serve our customers.

Join us as we use technology, data and AI to create competitive advantage across bp’s trading and commercial businesses.

The role

We are looking for an expert Senior Software Engineer to join our Trading, Shipping & Supply & Technology organisation in London.

You will be part of a high-performing engineering team responsible for building and evolving digital products across our Risk, Pricing and Trading (RPT) Middle Office Technology landscape.

Working closely with traders, schedulers, operators, exposure analysts, commodity risk analysts, finance teams, product managers, UX designers and data engineers, you will design and deliver technology that enables faster, better and more informed commercial decisions.

This is a hands-on engineering role with significant opportunity to influence architecture, engineering standards and the long-term technology strategy. You will work closely with the Technical Lead and business customers to turn sophisticated business problems into scalable, resilient and production-ready solutions.

A key focus of the role will be taking Data and AI solutions from discovery through to production, including rapid prototyping, evaluation, deployment and operation of agentic applications such as multi-agent systems and Model Context Protocol (MCP) services.

What you’ll do

Software engineering

• Design and develop sophisticated backend services, platforms and RESTful APIs that support critical trading and middle-office workflows.
• Build scalable, resilient and cloud-native applications using modern software engineering practices.
• Develop high-quality, maintainable code with a strong focus on automated testing, including TDD and BDD.
• Identify and address technical debt, performance bottlenecks and opportunities to simplify and improve the technology landscape.
• Apply sound software architecture principles, including Domain-Driven Design, reactive programming and event-driven architectures.
• Chip in to architectural decisions and the evolution of the team’s technology platform and long-term roadmap.
• Design and implement production-grade streaming solutions capable of low-latency, high-throughput and fault-tolerant processing.
• Address sophisticated problems involving stateful stream processing, partitioning, concurrency, resilience and timely computation.
• Apply a strong understanding of multithreading, networking and JVM performance to build efficient and reliable applications.

Data & AI

• Lead the discovery-to-deployment journey for Data and AI applications, moving solutions from prototypes into production.
• Develop production-grade agentic workflows, including multi-agent architectures and MCP-based services.
• Build high-performance evaluation pipelines and observability frameworks to assess the accuracy, safety, reliability and latency of AI-powered applications.
• Find opportunities where AI, automation and data can deliver measurable business value and return on investment.
• Use modern AI-assisted development tools to increase engineering productivity, improve problem solving and accelerate delivery while maintaining high engineering standards.

Collaboration & technical leadership

• Partner closely with traders, risk professionals, operators, finance teams and other business collaborators to understand their needs and deliver technology that solves real business problems.
• Work collaboratively with software engineers, product managers, UX designers, data engineers and architects.
• Provide technical guidance, coaching and mentoring to other engineers and contribute to developing the team’s engineering capability.
• Help establish and maintain a culture of engineering perfection, continuous improvement, ownership and collaboration.
• Contribute to the product roadmap and ensure engineering investment delivers measurable business outcomes.
• Support production systems and help ensure the availability, resilience and operational performance of business-critical applications.
• Promote engineering protocols across design, development, testing, deployment and operational support.

What you’ll bring

Crucial experience

• Strong software engineering fundamentals, including object-oriented design, data structures, algorithms and computational complexity.
• Validated experience designing and developing distributed, cloud-native applications.
• Strong proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Java, C#, Python, Scala or Go.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms and Platform-as-a-Service technologies such as GKE, OpenShift, EKS/AKS or Cloud Foundry.
• Strong experience with event-driven and messaging architectures using technologies such as Kafka, RabbitMQ or ActiveMQ.
• Experience designing and working with relational databases, particularly PostgreSQL or MySQL.
• Confirmed experience designing and implementing high-throughput, low-latency streaming ingestion and processing solutions.
• Experience with reactive programming, Domain-Driven Design and distributed systems.
• Strong understanding of concurrency, multithreading, network models and JVM memory/performance characteristics.
• Experience applying software engineering practices such as TDD, BDD, CI/CD, code review and automated testing.
• Experience operating and supporting production systems, ideally business-critical applications.
• Experience working optimally within small, high-performing engineering teams.
• Experience working within regulated or highly controlled enterprise environments, with an understanding of requirements relating to security, privacy, data residency, compliance and operational risk.
• Confirmed experience using AI-assisted engineering and developer tooling to improve productivity and accelerate software delivery.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to work optimally with both technical and non-technical customers.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related rigor, or equivalent professional experience.

Desirable experience

• Experience in energy trading, commodity trading or Energy Trading and Risk Management (ETRM) systems.
• Experience working with trading, risk, pricing, scheduling or middle-office platforms.
• Experience with Actor Model, Event Sourcing and CQRS architectures.
• Experience building AI/ML-enabled applications and agentic systems in production.
• Experience developing evaluation, monitoring and observability frameworks for AI applications.
• Experience leading or mentoring a squad of engineers.
• Experience running business-critical applications in production and participating in operational support models.
• Experience working with sophisticated financial, risk or regulatory requirements.

Why Join Us?

At bp, we support our people to grow in a diverse and exciting environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity.

There are many aspects of our employees’ lives that are significant, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits can include flexible working options, a generous paid parental leave policy, excellent retirement benefits, among others.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Reinvent your career as you help our business meet the challenges of the future.

Apply now!

Travel Requirement
No travel is expected with this role

Relocation Assistance:
This role is not eligible for relocation

Remote Type:
This position is a hybrid of office/remote working

Skills:
Cloud Platforms, Cloud Platforms, Collaboration, Communication, Configuration management and release, Continuous deployment and release, Creating a high performing team, Database Design, Digital Project Management, Documentation and knowledge sharing, Emerging technology monitoring, Facilitation, Information Security, Mentoring, Metrics definition and instrumentation, NoSql data modelling, Problem Solving, Relational Data Modeling, Risk Management, Scripting, Secure development, Service operations and resiliency, Software Design and Development, Solution Architecture, Source control and code management {+ 5 more}.

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