Oracle Utilities Overview

At Oracle’s Utilities Global Business Unit (UBGU), we build and operate cloud-based SaaS solutions to transform how people interact with their utility (providers of electricity, gas and/or water) and how utilities interact with their customers. Improving the relationship between Utility and Customer is a key building block of our mission “To provide the best solutions for the world’s energy and water challenges.”  Via SaaS solutions built on Oracle’s next-generation cloud infrastructure (OCI), we speed delivery of utility-specific services, increase corporate administration efficiency, and turn business data into business intelligence.

 

About the Opower Cloud Native Platform Engineering Team

The platform engineering agile scrum team are full-stack engineers who develop and operate a SaaS platform using Oracle Cloud that powers all Opower applications.  Opower’s cloud software is made of microservices, batch processing systems and data warehouses to provide our products to our utility partners and their customers. Within these environments, our team provides the services and tools required for teams to develop and operate their applications.

 

Being central to the Opower organization, our team takes great pride in championing software quality, design, security, efficiency and maintainability for not just our software but also provides an authoritative guidance for ideal practices to all the teams utilizing our platform. As part of this dynamic team, you will work with experienced and talented engineers in a friendly environment.  You will design solutions to complex distributed infrastructure problems, design and implement cloud-first solutions, ship changes daily, and see the impact of your work immediately as it is adopted by Opower teams to enhance their velocity.

 

As a member of Opower Cloud Native Platform Engineering team, your responsibilities will include the following:

• Evolve the ecosystem using the latest cloud technologies to provide new capabilities and reduce operations costs
• Design, implement, test and deploy new features end to end
• Triage, troubleshoot, and fix functional and performance issues in our ecosystem
• Define, set and enforce standards for best practices in software development. Perform peer code reviews
• Partner with engineers from other teams adopting and using our tools in order to facilitate their applications’ specific or unique needs. Analyze, create and review cross-team design plans and documents
• Take pride in owning what you build, support it in production and continuously monitor and evolve it to improve performance, scalability and ease-of-use

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in JAVA
• Minimum 4 years of software engineering or related experience
• Experience developing RESTful web services
• Comfortable with relational databases such as MySQL or Oracle DB
• Familiarity with Unix/Linux. Experience in scripting using any of the languages such as Shell, Ruby, Python, Golang etc.
• Excellent CS and problem-solving fundamentals
• Working proficiency and communication skills in verbal and written English

 

Nice-to-haves

• Experience building applications using JAVA frameworks like Dropwizard, Spring Boot, etc.
• Hands on experience with Cloud Services (Oracle, AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.)
• Experience developing Docker based containerized applications
• DevOps skills a plus
• Sound understanding of agile software development best practices including CI/CD, testing, monitoring, alerting and automation
• Interest in solving complex design problems and leading design sessions. Leading contributor individually and as a team member

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Analyze, design develop, troubleshoot and debug software programs for commercial or end user applications. Writes code, completes programming and performs testing and debugging of applications.

As a member of the software engineering division, you will perform high-level design based on provided external specifications. Specify, design and implement minor changes to existing software architecture. Build highly complex enhancements and resolve complex bugs. Build and execute unit tests and unit plans. Review integration and regression test plans created by QA. Communicate with QA and porting engineering as necessary to discuss minor changes to product functionality and to ensure quality and consistency across specific products.

Duties and tasks are varied and complex needing independent judgment. Fully competent in own area of expertise. May have project lead role and or supervise lower level personnel. BS or MS degree or equivalent experience relevant to functional area. 4 years of software engineering or related experience.

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