Senior Platform Software Engineer

Senior Platform Software Engineer

Full-Time 63000 - 77000 £ / year (est.) Home office (partial)
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At a Glance

  • Tasks: Own and develop software components, enhancing integration frameworks and developer tools.
  • Company: Join Oracle, a leader in AI and cloud solutions impacting billions.
  • Benefits: Enjoy flexible medical, life insurance, retirement options, and community volunteer opportunities.
  • Other info: Work from our Bristol office several times a month with excellent career growth potential.
  • Why this job: Make a real difference in tech while growing your skills in a dynamic environment.
  • Qualifications: Experience in software development, debugging, and team collaboration required.

The predicted salary is between 63000 - 77000 £ per year.

Owns moderately complex components within platform services or SDKs; leads team-level improvements to integration frameworks and developer tooling. Performs deep debugging across a bounded set of distributed services, driving fixes that protect downstream consumers and upgrade paths. Analyzes usage, performance, and error budgets for specific platform surfaces; implements targeted resilience and capacity optimizations. Authors and curates team-scoped documentation, samples, and adoption guidance.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Platform Software Development: Own a bounded platform component (service module, SDK area) and evolve its contracts for multi-tenant use. Perform deep debugging across a limited-service graph; drive compatibility-safe remediation plans. Implement targeted resilience/capacity patterns and document adoption guidance for team consumers.
  • Software Development and Coding - Design, Testing, and Optimization: Designs software solutions and analyzes and helps identify requirements to achieve business and operational goals, independently. Adheres to and suggests improvements to all phases of the software development lifecycle. Utilizes working knowledge to develop new software features and enhancements following design specifications and develops documents to clarify software design and code. Leads code reviews in designated areas to help drive improvements. Conducts debugging and troubleshooting to identify and fix moderately complex software issues. Develops fixes for identified issues. Implements software testing (e.g., functional and non-functional testing), quality assurance processes, software error logging, monitoring, and observability for effective debugging, ensuring review by manager and/or lead throughout the process. Exercises judgment and discretion to conduct performance profiling and optimization of coding. Troubleshoots and resolves moderately complex issues related to application programming interface (API) functionality and integration. Implements moderately complex API versioning, lifecycle, and interoperability strategies.
  • Software Architecture - Software System Structural Design: Designs and develops software, systems, and services aligned to pre-defined system architecture. Develops working knowledge of software architecture decisions and best practices. Collaborates with team leads to review work to ensure alignment with software architecture. Implements moderately complex performance optimization and scalability strategies in software design.
  • Issue/Defect Collaboration - Software Products Support: Collaborates within and beyond immediate team to understand customer issues and align solutions. May provide technical guidance and support to customers regarding customer-reported issues, independently. Coaches, mentors, and guides others to advocate for customers' interests and suggests product enhancements based on feedback. Influences team to ensure customer satisfaction through timely resolution of issues and effective communication. Implements customer issue and/or defect handling and training processes, independently. Investigates and troubleshoots complex product maintenance issues to ensure customer agreement on short- and long-term solutions (e.g., future enhancements).
  • Practices and Standards Compliance - Security and Compliance: Collaborates with the team to establish and follow development practices and coding standards. Exercises judgment and discretion to ensure code quality and adherence to broad acceptance criteria during development. Keeps up to date with industry best practices and applies them to software development processes. Implements secure coding practices to prevent security vulnerabilities.
  • Development Operations - System Maintenance: Performs periodic maintenance and testing operations for systems that require upgrading or patching (e.g., for critical vulnerabilities). Exercises judgment and discretion to drive improvements, ensure automation, testing, and debugging of systems to ensure service/product availability, health, support, and reliability.
  • Planning & Execution: Independently manages work, monitoring timelines and deliverables to ensure projects or initiatives stay on track and meet requirements. Proactively prioritises work and adapts to resource or timeline shifts, suggesting adjustments to maintain project efficiency.
  • Collaboration & Partnership: Collaborates across teams to align on expectations and achieve shared objectives. Builds and maintains a comprehensive understanding of business, stakeholder, and/or customer needs to build and support effective partnerships. Actively listens to diverse perspectives and asks questions to ensure understanding of others.
  • Problem Solving: Independently identifies and addresses standard and non-standard issues in accordance with standard practices, escalating more complex issues as appropriate. Analyzes data and/or information from multiple sources to troubleshoot standard and non-standard errors. Contributes to knowledge sharing and best practices.
  • Continuous Learning: Embraces continuous learning by actively seeking to build knowledge and new skills and/or tools and staying current with industry trends and best practices. Seeks out and leverages feedback and training to improve skills. Contributes to a culture of continuous learning and knowledge sharing with team members.
  • Continuous Improvement: Develops ideas and recommends updates to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes, protocols, and workflows within a team. Seeks input from team members on alternative approaches and methods for improving work.

Senior Platform Software Engineer employer: Oracle Corporation

Oracle is an exceptional employer that fosters a culture of innovation and inclusivity, empowering employees to contribute meaningfully to cutting-edge AI and cloud solutions. With competitive benefits including flexible medical, life insurance, and retirement options, as well as opportunities for community engagement through volunteer programs, Oracle supports the growth and well-being of its workforce. Located in Bristol, employees benefit from a collaborative environment that encourages continuous learning and professional development, making it an ideal place for those seeking a rewarding career in technology.

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We think you need these skills to ace Senior Platform Software Engineer

Deep Debugging
Java
Software Development Lifecycle
API Functionality
Performance Profiling
Software Testing
Quality Assurance