SENIOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPER

About the IT Team

Glencores Information Technology group develops and supports a range of IT applications and infrastructure to meet the needs of a fast moving, international commodity trading business. The London-based team is primarily focused on energy trading (oil and gas) and supports business users across a number of offices globally. The team covers activities across the IT lifecycle including architecture; project management; business analysis; software design, development and support; infrastructure design; and vendor management. Glencore uses a wide range of modern IT technologies in London and its other offices and also uses a number of leading commercial applications, providing a diverse set of opportunities and challenges.

This role will suit an experienced full-stack analyst/developer with a broad, yet modern skill set and a proven track record, who ideally has knowledge and experience of the commodity or financial trading sectors.

Key Responsibilities:

• Senior Developer (around 10 years development experience, perhaps with recent team lead responsibilities) working in a scrum team to deliver robust enterprise-wide solutions utilising industry standard practices
• Design, develop, enhance and maintain applications using agreed coding standards and quality targets.
• Ensure quality code reviews and thorough unit tests are executed by the team.
• Liaise with immediate scrum team, other scrum/project teams, line manager and development leads to ensure accurate and complete delivery.
• Contribute to the development and implementation of software development best practices within Glencore IT.
• Support and mentor other developers in all areas of the development lifecycle.
• Contribute to the development and implementation of software development best practices within Glencore IT.
• Support and mentor junior developers in all areas of the development lifecycle.

Key Competencies & Skills:

Expertise of web front-end and back-end development to include most of the following:

• C# and .NET8+
• Rest API’s incorporated with SQL Server or Sybase DB
• Angular 16+
• Typescript, ES6, HTML5, CSS3 .
• Experience with Git, Jira and Confluence.
• Experience with ORM’s: NHibernate and/or Entity Framework.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Ability to grasp complex multi-part systems.
• A willingness to engage with be interested in the trading and commercial activities of the business.
• Delivery focused and strong team player.
• Working independently. without close supervision

Demonstrate expertise of:

• Building modern-web applications with Angular 16+
• Modern UI design principles. i.e. Able to take initial design direction and interpret those guidelines .to finalise the design through to a solution.
• API Design and development fundamentals.
• Good SQL/Sybase knowledge.
• Functional and functional-reactive programming in Typescript.
• Functional requirements and system design specifications.
• Test case preparation and execution.
• Setup of development environments to include source code and version control.
• Software builds procedures.

Education & experience requirements:

• Extensive experience of designing and developing applications both individually and as part of a team
• Knowledge of a commodity or financial trading environment useful but not a pre-requisite
• Strong inter-personal and communication skills (both verbal and written)
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to develop innovative solutions to technical problems
• Ability to coach and mentor peers within the scrum team
• Experience of working in an Agile/Scrum team environment
• Educated to Degree-level (or equivalent), as a minimum