Senior software engineer

Job Description

The Products

Oracle Fusion Applications (FA)

Oracle Fusion Applications ( ) is Oracle's leading SaaS offering of critical business applications like Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Human Capital Management (HCM), Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and many more. Our enterprise grade application suite serves as one of the focal points of Oracle's business value and is used and trusted by large enterprise customers across the globe. Whilst Fusion Applications has been a huge success, the basic architecture is still based on a monolithic, on-premise, Fusion Middleware stack that has not changed since its inception. Solving this problem is our challenge.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

OCI ( ) is the world's leading enterprise-class cloud platform. We build and operate cloud services at scale and are committed to providing the best cloud products that meet the needs of our customers, who are tackling some of the world's biggest challenges. These services provide the foundation for businesses of all sizes around the world, as well as Oracle's Cloud (SaaS) Applications. With revolutionary innovations in performance, availability, ease of use, and security, we designed OCI for the reliability, predictability, and quality that the world's largest companies and smartest start-ups need, combining the elasticity and utility of a public cloud with the granular control, security, and predictability of on-premises infrastructure. As a result, our customers can run the most demanding workloads, as well as less compute-intensive applications, in a secure and highly available cloud environment.

The Team

Fusion Apps Technical Architecture

The Fusion Apps Technical Architecture team have been tasked with defining the next generation architecture - codename Spectra - for Fusion Applications, based on cloud native principles and running on OCI. The migration from monolith to a modern cloud-based micro-service architecture opens new avenues to work with a wide range of state-of-the-art technologies and OCI services. It will also mean instituting better processes and practices as we transform to software as a service development model that includes following industry standard developer workflows, CICD pipelines, safe deployment practices, cloud based automated testing, DevOps culture, etc.

For this new Spectra architecture team, we're looking for talented software engineers across at various grades to join us and build out the frameworks and services for Health Monitoring and Chaos Engineering. As you can imagine, this service will be a critical part of hundreds of other services, helping to improve the resiliency of the services and help service owners to maintain their SLOs. This is a startup team and comes with a service ownership role that is hands-on, with lots of opportunity for large contributions and impact across the organization. At this stage, we're looking for highly passionate engineers with varying levels of experience and areas of expertise to join the team. As with most service teams, there will eventually be a periodic on call rotation as part of this role. Our developer kitchen includes: Java, REST, Docker, Kubernetes, µservice, Grafana and much more.

The Position

Senior Software Engineer (IC3)

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will already be a great engineer with rock-solid coding skills and a generalist with confidence working at many levels of the stack. You should have a strong commitment to excellence which, combined with your experience, will help you be an outstanding technical contributor as you look to grow your influence and career. You should be able to work independently and as part of a team in an agile and distributed environment. You should be a great communicator to both technical and non-technical stakeholders in multiple locations around the globe. You should also be able to manage multiple projects and priorities in a fast-paced environment, be results-driven, and thrive even when faced with ambiguity and uncertainty. Most importantly, you should be a team player, someone who is eager to learn, and willing to do whatever it takes to help the team succeed.

Responsibilities

As an IC3 your responsibilities could include, but not be limited to:

• Developing and implementing features based on given requirements and use cases.
• Work with peers to propose and review design, solutions and implementation with an emphasis on metric driven results.
• Writing quality backend code, including validation tests using languages including, but not limited to, Java, and Python.
• Working with cloud native technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, and gRPC.
• Ensuring safe and compliant release management across different stages.
• Operating the service through production, including making operational and continuous improvements.
• Analyzing and debugging issues, including bugs, customer issues, and performance issues.
• Coaching or mentoring more junior members of the team.
• Collaborating and contributing in an inclusive and diverse environment to continuously build a healthy work culture.
• Provide time-zone appropriate production support as part of an on-call rotation, participating in operational incidents, driving resolution and root cause analysis and product improvements to prevent reoccurrence.

About You

In terms of your background, skills and experience there is a broad range of skills and experience that we look for - some are baseline requirements, others are great to have but are not must-haves:

Minimum Qualifications, Skills & Experience

• Strong BS or MS degree in Computer Science, or equivalent software-related field with relevant experience.
• A demonstrable track-record of successfully delivering complex technically challenging projects
• Proficiency and demonstrated ability to write great code in modern Java (17+) and experience with scripting languages such as Python.
• 3+ years of experience with REST API development and
• Soild knowledge of microservices, data structures, algorithms and operating systems.
• Excellent troubleshooting, debugging, and performance tuning skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex information clearly and concisely.
• Solid knowledge of common service-oriented design patterns and service-to-service communication protocols
• Strong desire to make an impact and thrive in collaborative and energetic environments
• Ability to effectively communicate technical concepts verbally and through design aspects
• Systematic problem-solving approach, strong communication skills, a sense of ownership, and drive.

Preferred Skills & Experience

• Programming languages: Proficiency in Java, Python, Go and JavaScript/TypeScript.
  • Experience with AI/ML frameworks and libraries is a significant asset.
• 3-5+ years of developing and shipping enterprise distributed and/or cloud native systems
• Production experience with Cloud and ML technologies
• Experience working in the below areas and algorithms will be ideal but not mandatory:
  • Generative AI Modeling: Customizing LLM's, build and deploy LLM's at scale for large scale data generation
• Experience with containers and container orchestration technologies (Kubernetes, Docker)
• Understanding of distributed systems architecture and fundamentals.
• Experience with build automation, continuous integration, or continuous deployment tools such as Git, Jenkins, Maven, Ansible, etc.
• Experience with observability tools and practices.

The Location

The FA Technical Architecture / Spectra team in the UK is based in Bristol, in the iconic Generator Building ( ) with close links to the city centre, public transport and M32, but we support a variety of flexible working arrangements including in-office, hybrid and remote, depending on circumstances, location and with agreement from your manager.

Responsibilities

As an IC3 your responsibilities could include, but not be limited to:

• Developing and implementing features based on given requirements and use cases.
• Work with peers to propose and review design, solutions and implementation with an emphasis on metric driven results.
• Writing quality backend code, including validation tests using languages including, but not limited to, Java, and Python.
• Working with cloud native technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, and gRPC.
• Ensuring safe and compliant release management across different stages.
• Operating the service through production, including making operational and continuous improvements.
• Analyzing and debugging issues, including bugs, customer issues, and performance issues.
• Coaching or mentoring more junior members of the team.
• Collaborating and contributing in an inclusive and diverse environment to continuously build a healthy work culture.
• Provide time-zone appropriate production support as part of an on-call rotation, participating in operational incidents, driving resolution and root cause analysis and product improvements to prevent reoccurrence.

Qualifications

Career Level - IC3

About Us

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