Senior Software Engineer – Python /FastAPI

ShellLondon, United Kingdomlast year

What’s The Role

Our team, together with our extended colleagues at Shell, specializes in Oil Market Analysis. We develop complex data products grounded in the fundamentals of the oil market, providing innovative and often industry-first insights that support our commodities trading business. As a Senior Software Engineer with proven experience in offering technical and process guidance, as well as mentoring the team for long-term success, you'll be challenged to think and act differently. You'll have opportunities to engage in all stages, from discovery and design to embedding and scaling.

What You’ll Be Doing

Work in a product team to deliver the backlog items on product development and enhancement.
Champion and drive the technology best practices.
Mentor and coach the junior engineers.
Work with your users, stakeholders and delivery team to understand and deliver value through your product.
Align with technical leaders to shape and implement Shell's strategy.

What You Bring

Have substantial experience in technical and process guidance.
Experience in Python FastAPI development, Spark/pySpark, Typescript/React, T-SQL/SQL/Azure SQL and other programming frameworks and paradigms.
Able to mix strategic and pragmatic approaches to drive product delivery.
Experience in leading an engineering team.
You have a very strong technical knowledge in current web technologies, cloud services, and infrastructure.
Strong experience in delivering multiple global products.
Knowledge of other Cloud (Azure etc.) is highly desirable.
Knowledge of containers and functions is highly desirable.
Demonstrated application of the best patterns & practices in the software development life cycle.
Experience working in agile teams with demonstrated application of the principles, including facilitation of the planning process.

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Is the Senior Software Engineer – Python /FastAPI position at Shell remote?: Yes. This role was posted on Remote Backend Jobs, a job board that lists exclusively fully remote positions.
When was this Senior Software Engineer – Python /FastAPI job posted?: This listing was posted on August 6, 2025 and is still open for applications.
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