Job Description:
About Us
OPIS, a Dow Jones company, is one of the world’s most comprehensive sources for petroleum pricing and news information. OPIS provides real-time and historical spot, wholesale/rack and retail fuel prices for the refined products, renewable fuels and natural gas and gas liquids (LPG) industries. We deliver award-winning news, market intelligence and transparency to the entire refined energy marketplace and companies looking to go carbon neutral. At its core, OPIS uses a set of complex IT systems and tools, handling huge amounts of data in a reliable way, and providing customers with business applications to use this data as efficiently as possible.
Are you an analytical thinker and passionate about problem solving?
OPIS is hiring in our Spain software development team based in Barcelona. This is a unique opportunity to join a fast-growing team that will become an important part of our global OPIS organization and our Axxis Product Technology division. This team will work closely with the OPIS HQ based in Gaithersburg, MD US and other team members working remotely in the US and Europe. To fit this role, we are looking for that unique mix of solid technical capabilities, blended with strong interpersonal skills.
Axxis by OPIS, a Dow Jones company, offers an integrated suite of software and services that can be deployed in a modular fashion with plug-in integration to client’s back office systems to automate fuel pricing and help clients dispatch fuel effectively. Axxis offers web and mobile applications to help with the delivery of fuel.
Your Role
Are you an analytical thinker and passionate about problem solving? This is a unique opportunity to join a passionate team focused on delivering high quality products to a critical section of the economy. This team is tasked with building and maintaining core systems used by our customer base around the world. To fit this role, we are looking for that unique mix of solid technical capabilities, blended with strong interpersonal skills.
Your Responsibilities
As an experienced and solution-oriented Senior Software Engineer your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to: working with our product teams to provide timely, effective and performant solutions; contributing to the design of scalable data solutions, including the development of automated pipelines; implementing and/or maintaining database systems to ensure the availability and consistent performance of our application suite; understand and define business data requirements and identify data needs and data sources to create scalable data architecture and support enhancements, new product and implementation.
Responsibilities

• Write, build and deploy code
• Analyze business application requirements, identify concerns and develop action plans
• Be part of an Agile team, using company’s latest software development life-cycle, working closely with team members from Romania and US
• Leverage our Cloud infrastructure (AWS) in order to design solutions that make the best of it
• Maintains existing legacy applications
• Track down and resolve bugs in any OPIS code base
• Adhere to best practice development standards (such as continuous integration and deployment)

Your Expertise

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science or related technical field
• 2+ years hands-on software development experience
• Strong knowledge of OOP principles
• Strong knowledge of C# and Microsoft .NET framework
• Knowledge of HTML/CSS/Java Script
• Experience with designing web services
• Good understanding of a relational database engine - SQL Server (or Postgre SQL)
• Experience with modern software development life-cycle

Does this sound like you?

• A strong analytical thinker with a love for planning and organization who can manage competing demands with minimal supervision
• A self-starter with a never-ending curiosity to learn and solve problems
• A critical thinker, with mad problem-solving skills
• A team player with great interpersonal and communication skills
• A structured developer, with good time-management skills

If these things strike a chord with you, we should talk.
We’d also love to hear about your experiences with any of the following:

• Degrees, Certifications, and/or awards/recognition that you have achieved
• Knowledge of SDLC, Agile methodology and/or SCRUM
• Experience working with scripts under source control (Git/TFVC/Mercurial/Svn/etc)
• Experience being part of a continuous integration and deployment process
• Experience using database monitoring tools (like tools from Solar Winds or Red Gate)

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Business Area: Dow Jones - OPIS
Job Category: Software Product Engineering
Union Status:
Non-Union role
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Req ID: 43602