Technology

Research & Technology Group

About bp/team

bp technology is the central organization for all software and platform development. We build all the technology that powers bp's businesses, from upstream energy production to downstream energy delivery to our customers. We have a variety of teams depending on your areas of interest, including infrastructure and backend services through to customer-facing web and native applications. We encourage our teams to adapt quickly by using native AWS and Azure services, including serverless, and enable them to pick the best technology for a given problem. This is meant to empower our software and platform engineers while allowing them to learn and develop themselves.

The Senior Software Engineer is a hands-on technical leader responsible for designing, building, testing, deploying and operating high-quality digital platform capabilities across the Corporate Affairs portfolio. Working with Technical Delivery Leads, Product Managers, architects, engineers, QA, operations and suppliers, the role shapes technical direction for the immediate team, leads medium-to-large engineering initiatives and sets a strong standard for code, design and implementation. It combines direct production-grade coding with technical leadership, mentoring and long-term stewardship of the platform architecture.

Supports Corporate Affairs digital platforms and services, including DCP, Brand Portal, global web, content, campaign, analytics, integration and operational support capabilities.

Acts as a technical leader for the immediate engineering team, shaping design decisions and coordinating delivery across multiple engineers.

Leads sophisticated front-end, back-end, API, integration, automation, cloud and DevOps work according to platform needs.

Leads medium-to-large engineering initiatives from technical discovery and design through build, testing, release and production operation.

Capability building

Lead the end-to-end technical design and implementation of sophisticated digital platform capabilities and services.

- Make informed trade-offs across business value, delivery pace, technical quality, security and long-term sustainability.
- Lead and contribute to design reviews, technical spikes, solution options and engineering decisions.
- Hands-on Software Engineering
- Write high-quality, production-grade code that sets the standard for maintainability, scalability, extensibility and clarity.
- Design, build and maintain components, services, APIs, integrations, automation and shared engineering patterns.
- Perform high-quality code reviews and provide practical feedback on design, testing, security and implementation.
- Agile Delivery & Product Contribution
- Contribute to roadmap shaping, backlog refinement, estimation, sprint planning, demos and retrospectives.




- Proactively identify architectural issues, technical risks and improvement opportunities that enable faster, higher-quality delivery.
- Communicate technical progress, decisions, risks and trade-offs clearly to technical and non-technical customers.

Quality, DevOps & Operational Excellence

- Establish strong testing practices across unit, integration, component, regression and automated quality controls.
- Improve CI/CD pipelines, release automation, environment management and safe deployment practices.
- Participate in incident response, root-cause analysis and post-incident improvement activities.
- Lead reduction of technical debt, operational toil and recurring failure points through engineering improvements and automation.

Mentor and coach software engineers through pairing, design discussions, code reviews and practical technical guidance.

- Set transparent expectations for engineering quality, ownership, documentation and operational responsibility.
- Encourage constructive challenge and help resolve technical disagreements by finding the best path forward.
- Promote curiosity, inclusion, continuous improvement and a strong product and customer perspective.

Skills & Experience

- Significant experience designing, building and operating digital products, web platforms, APIs, integrations or cloud-native services.
- Strong computer science and software engineering fundamentals, including design, maintainability, testing, security, scalability and performance.
- Experience leading complex engineering initiatives and coordinating work across multiple engineers or technical workstreams.
- Hands-on experience with modern coding practices, version control, automated testing, CI/CD, DevOps and production operations.
- Experience mentoring engineers and raising standards through code review, design review and technical guidance.
- Experience collaborating with product, delivery, architecture, QA, operations, security and supplier teams.
- Desirable experience with Contentful, MACH or headless architecture, modern front-end frameworks, Java or API development, AWS, Azure DevOps, observability, automation or AI-assisted engineering.

High-quality, secure and maintainable code that enables other engineers to contribute effectively.

- Reduced technical debt, operational risk and manual effort through simplification, reuse and automation.




- Reliable releases and production services supported by strong testing, observability and operational readiness.
- Improved engineering capability, consistency and confidence across the immediate team.
- 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.

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.

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

Continuous Improvement, Creating new methodologies, Customer quality requirements, Data Analysis, Experimental Design, Formulated product testing, Formulation Deployment, Formulation design, OMS and bp requirements, Process Safety Management, Product Development, Product Sustainability Performance Management, Project Management, Raw materials knowledge, Rheology, Scientific publication, Tribology, Vehicle propulsion technologies

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