Software Engineer

Job Description:

Company Description

Who are Wood Mackenzie?

Wood Mackenzie is the global leader in data, analysis and consulting across the energy, chemicals, metals, mining, power and renewables sectors. Our services are used by energy companies, financial institutions and governments around the world to drive billion-dollar decisions. We are on a journey to build the most trusted and best in class energy-analytics platform, to enable our customers to survive and thrive as they navigate an ever-changing energy landscape.

Wood Mackenzie is part of the Verisk family, recently named by Forbes as a ‘World’s Best Employer’ and a ‘Best Employer for Women.’ Verisk is also part of the UN Global Compact sustainability initiative, committing to balancing 100 percent of our carbon emissions.

We are looking for a Software Engineer with excellent problem solving, teamwork, and communication skills to join our effort to create a world class engineering organisation. You will work with other cross-functional teams to share knowledge and continuously improve our best practices. Your team will own services from their inception to production and will be responsible for their high quality and continuous improvement. You will work with an agile mindset, collaborating via open and honest conversations.

Passion, Confidence with humility, Teamwork

Job Description

What will I be doing?

You will be working as part of an autonomous team, discussing requirements, developing the valuation infrastructure of Lens, our next generation data analysis and visualisation platform. You will test your work with automated testing frameworks before shipping it to clients using CI/CD pipelines. Your experience doesn’t exactly match our stack? Don’t worry! We hire based on talent not language/framework specific skill set.

This role is for our Flying Squirrels team, our goal is to enable users to valuate every asset in the world.

Qualifications

Ideally you:

• Have some experience across the stack building web-based applications (using a modern front-end framework), setting up, and deploying to infrastructure in a cloud environment

• Are a keen learner and like to share knowledge too

• Love building resilient and scalable software

• Are curious about how best engineering practices can be used for solving business problems

Our stack:

• Primary language is Typescript, we also have back-end services in C# and use Python for data ETLs

• AWS

• React with Redux and Apollo

• GraphQL and RESTful APIs, built in NodeJS running on AWS Lambda and ECS-CloudFormation

• Micro-services approach to back-end architecture

• Data stores using DynamoDB, Postgres, Elasticsearch and S3 [pills: DynamoDB, Postgres, Elasticsearch, AWS S3]

• Jenkins and BitBucket (some teams use git-flow based branching strategies, others do trunk-based development)

• Docker for local development

Our engineers have an opportunity to contribute towards ensuring that our future generations have a planet that is healthy and habitable. If you are looking to work for a company that matters, a company which has a significant and growing impact in the world, and if having a sense of purpose and contribution is important to you, we want to hear from you

Additional Information

Verisk Analytics is an equal opportunity employer.

All members of the Verisk Analytics family of companies are equal opportunity employers. We consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, veteran's status, age or disability.

http://www.verisk.com/careers.html

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