Software Engineer

About the job

Entity: Technology Job Family Group: IT&S Group Job Description: Role Synopsis

- We’re seeking a senior hands-on AWS Backend Developer with deep cloud architecture expertise and hands‑on AI experience to design, build, and scale agentic AI systems. The candidate will own backend services on AWS, integrate LLMs via secure and cost‑efficient patterns, and deliver production‑grade, observable, and compliant systems for mission‑critical use cases.

Key Accountabilities

- As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining existing or new software. In this role, you will provide technical leadership of junior engineers to ensure that the software is highly available, scalable, and secure. You will also be responsible for developing features, improving the software performance, and providing technical support to other teams.

- Design and document sophisticated software components, services, and platforms

- Implement robust and maintainable code with clear and maintained documentation

- Deliver customer value in iterative fashion while working towards longer term systems to solve roadmap goals with increasing efficiency

- Serve as a technical lead and own projects end-to-end

- Communicate status and changes to the work they are responsible and accountable for, keep all stakeholders informed of changes and updates to original plan

- Design test automation on all code implemented through unit testing and integration testing

- Work with internal and external teams to bring new platforms to market

- Maintain and enhance software frameworks for development

- Serve as a technical mentor for other engineers on the team

- Participate in code reviews and contribute to the development of best practices

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and resolve platform-related issues

- Support internal and external audit teams to prepare for and participate in security, software licensing, and regulatory audits, ensuring that all necessary documentation and evidence is available and accurate

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement new controls and procedures to address identified compliance gaps or risks

Essential Education:

- Bachelor / Master degree in computer science or equivalent experience

Essential Experience and Job Requirements:

- 7–10+ years building production backend systems; 5+ years hands-on with AWS

- Solid understanding and experience in AWS core services and emerging AWS technologies such as AWS AgentCore.

- Compute: Lambda, ECS, EKS

- API & Integration: API Gateway, AppSync, EventBridge, SQS, SNS

- Data & Storage: DynamoDB, Aurora (Postgres/MySQL), S3

- Networking & Security: VPC, IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, CloudFront

- Observability: CloudWatch

- Orchestration: Step Functions

- Authentication & Authorization: IAM Identity Centre, API Gateway authorizers and integration with Microsoft Azure Entra ID

- Extensive experience in designing and implementing microservices and event‑driven architectures

- Understanding and experience implementing AWS Well‑Architected Framework

- AWS certifications highly valued.

- Work effectively with various customer enterprise teams (security, AI governance, data platforms etc) to obtain required approvals and sign‑off on solution designs.

Design & Build Agentic Backends : Define low level solution designs and implement backend services that orchestrate agent workflows using AWS primitives and AI frameworks.

Orchestration & Workflows : Implement robust orchestration for multi‑step agent pipelines, including retries, timeouts, and compensating actions.

APIs & services: Build and integrate with secure, low‑latency APIs and event‑driven microservices with AWS services

Collaboration : Partner closely with a highly skilled, tight‑knit team and work cross‑functionally with security, data, data science, UX and customer enterprise platform teams to deliver high‑quality solutions.

Hands on - The candidate must be fully hands‑on, actively contributing to coding, design, and implementation of backend services and AWS solutions.

Desirable criteria

- Experience in Trading systems or ETRMs (Energy Trading & Risk Management).

- Operational experience of running business critical systems.

About bp

Our purpose is to deliver energy to the world, today and tomorrow. For over 100 years, bp has focused on discovering, developing, and producing oil and gas in the nations where we operate. We are one of the few companies globally that can provide governments and customers with an integrated energy offering. Delivering our strategy sustainably is fundamental to achieving our ambition to be a net zero company by 2050 or sooner!

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.

Additional Information

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Even though the job is advertised as full time, please contact the hiring manager or the recruiter as flexible working arrangements may be considered.

What you can expect from us!

Our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion:

At bp, you could be part of Business Resource Groups (BRGs) which belief in the power of inclusion, deeper connections, and shared experiences. They provide a place for employees to learn and share knowledge, to connect, and to improve. The BRGs focus on and encourage talent engagement, development, and retention while creating a broadened sense of community and inclusion for bp employees. The groups cultivate leadership growth by involving employees in developmental opportunities they would not otherwise have access to. Formal and informal mentoring also helps employees develop their professional goals and connect with colleagues. The BRGs’ dedication to growth at all levels helps employees feel more engaged and energized. The BRGs break down barriers, so we can all do better together. Examples of BRGs include (but are not limited to):

bpWIN (bp Women’s International Network) Pride Working parents PEN (Positively Ethnic Network) bpInclusia (bp’s Asian community) bpEnergía (bp’s Latin community)

Travel Requirement Up to 10% travel should be expected with this role Relocation Assistance: This role is eligible for relocation within country 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} . 
 Legal Disclaimer:

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of protected characteristics like race, religion, color, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, veteran status or disability status. Individuals with an accessibility need may request an adjustment/accommodation related to bp’s recruiting process (e.g., accessing the job application, completing required assessments, participating in telephone screenings or interviews, etc.). If you would like to request an adjustment/accommodation related to the recruitment process, please  contact us .

If you are selected for a position and depending upon your role, your employment may be contingent upon adherence to local policy. This may include pre-placement drug screening, medical review of physical fitness for the role, and background checks.