Back End Software Engineer

Houston - United States

Backend Software Engineer

Location: Houston, Texas

Job Description

The Schlumberger Back End Software Engineer develops the back end of a web application, i.e. handling the logic, database interactions, user authentication, configuration, etc. The Developer evaluates emerging technologies and provides strategic innovative and cost-effective engineering solutions to increase efficiency, reliability and integration of Schlumberger services and operations, working in a semiautonomous environment where fast prototyping emerging technologies to solve industry-related problems is the rule. The position reports to the software project manager.

Responsibilities

• Development of all server-side logic, definition and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end
• Integration of user-facing elements developed by a front-end developers with server side applications
• Collaborate with the front-end developers, customers, users, and product managers to establish objectives and design more functional, cohesive codes to enhance the user experience.
• Builds prototypes, products and systems that meets the project quality standards and requirements.
• Provides technical leadership and documentation to developers and stakeholders.
• Contributes to and supports re-use through common components that are well documented and tested.  

Background

• Bachelors degree or higher in Computer Science or related with minimum 3 years working experience  

Skills and knowledge

• Experience with one or more Cloud Platforms like AWS, GCP, Azure
• Experience with one or more backend programming languages– Java, Scala, Go, Python, C#, etc
• Understanding of micro services architecture with experience designing and implement RESTful services
• Knowledge of containers & container orchestration technologies – Docker, Kubernetes etc
• Knowledge of application networking and troubleshooting
• Knowledge of security principles (Oauth2, JWT, OpenAPI)
• Experienced in application profiling, bottleneck analysis and performance tuning
• Knowledge and experience with version control tools such as Git
• Understand continuous integration and continuous delivery technologies such as Jenkins, Azure DevOps
• Experience with test driven software development
• Experience with front end technologies is a plus

Schlumberger is an equal employment opportunity employer. Qualified applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, status as a protected veteran or other characteristics protected by law. Schlumberger is a VEVRAA Federal Contractor – priority referral Protected Veterans requested.