IT Software Engineer
About The Position
Join the ECI Group's Professional Technical Services Network as a contract IT Software Engineer. This is a Houston based contract role with an anticipated 4-month duration with an estimated start date of Sept 14, 2026. Note: You must be a US Citizen or Permanent US Resident to qualify for this position. Must be able to work independently within defined projects/work streams and is checked on at the end for results. Possesses a strong understanding of large-scale application architecture and design. Must have strong communication skills, particularly in collaborating with external parties, including business stakeholders. This is essential. Has an executional role in design and development projects or acts as an expert tester who designs test scripts and provides overall project guidance and planning support. Advises internally on solving functional and technical problems regarding the assigned applications and Infrastructure. Project: Deal Entry Portal (DEP) Shell trades on several different exchanges to achieve the best execution for the business, and these trades are required to be entered into Shell's Enterprise Risk Management Systems (ETRMs) in a timely manner to provide accurate management information, including P&L data. This is currently a manual process with trades being entered on a best-endeavours basis throughout the day, therefore sometimes many hours passing between trade execution and trade entry. Business case: Shell trades on several different exchanges to achieve the best execution for the business, and these trades are required to be entered into Shell's Enterprise Risk Management Systems (ETRMs) in a timely manner to provide accurate management information, including P&L data. This is currently a manual process with trades being entered on a best-endeavours basis throughout the day, therefore sometimes many hours passing between trade execution and trade entry
Requirements
- US Citizen or Permanent US Resident
- Strong understanding of large-scale application architecture and design.
- Strong communication skills, particularly in collaborating with external parties, including business stakeholders.
- Experience with database technologies such as SQL DB, Oracle.
- Experience with Docker, Kafka, Kubernetes, and Microsoft Azure/AWS, GitHub, or experience with any kind of message broker system (e.g. RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, AWS SQS etc).
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, coding, testing, and automation skill.
- Object-orientated software professional that ideally has experience using at least one strongly-typed language.
- Familiar with DevOps, Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment.
- Experience mentoring junior staff.
Nice To Haves
- 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.
Responsibilities
- API development using Python as OOP
- Design and develop distributed asynchronous systems to avoid data conflicts in immutable environments orchestrated across multiple machines.
- Collaborate with the lead functional developer to define, develop, test, and release new features.
- Provide workarounds & bug fixes for urgent production issues.
- Design test scripts and provide overall project guidance and planning support.
- Advise internally on solving functional and technical problems regarding the assigned applications and Infrastructure.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
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