Freight Lead Software Engineer

, United Kingdom

Job Family Group:

Information Technology (IT)

Worker Type:

Regular

Posting Start Date:

March 31, 2026

Business Unit:

Projects and Technology

Experience Level:

Experienced Professionals

Job Description:

What’s the role

Shell’s business thrives on innovative technology and skilled professionals. We are seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our team as a Tech Lead project aims to develop an integrated freight management platform for Trading & Supply. The new platform will replace RADAR with Veson IMOS, a leading industry solution, and will include a custom in-house system for demurrage and PDE calculations, integrated with our ETRMs.

What you’ll be doing

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will play active role on small and large projects as a Tech Lead. At Shell, a Tech Lead plays a vital role in driving digital transformation and ensuring the successful execution of technology projects.

Responsible for architectural decisions, ensuring scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions that align with Shell’s enterprise standards and future vision

You will play a central role in the successful delivery of the new freight management platform

You will be responsible for driving the technical design and standards and leading the development team in implementing both Veson IMOS and the bespoke in-house solution

What you bring

Industry Knowledge:

Voyage Management, the ideal candidate has experience with Veson IMOS

Experience with the entire Trading system landscape and capabilities around Life of a Deal

Experience & Leadership:

Extensive years of experience in software delivery with significant years leading software engineering teams

Proven track record delivering and leading on large scale programs

Build and maintain motivated teams, drive development, and collaboration

Direct workload of engineers partitioning tasks and assigning accountability

Technical Design:

Own and drive technical design, and standards for software products in Voyage Management

Define and document system architecture, integration patterns, and technology choices

Evaluate and select appropriate technologies, frameworks, and platforms

Confidently lead engineering decisions across project team, managing divergent opinions

Create pragmatic, implementable technical designs balancing risk, complexity, cost, and value

Ensure solutions meet non-functional requirements (scalability, security, performance, maintainability)

Lead architectural reviews and provide technical guidance to engineering teams

Collaboration & Communication:

Collaborate with business and IT stakeholders for strategic and day-to-day technical decisions

Strong communication and collaboration skills

Listen to and interpret the needs of technical and business stakeholders, manage expectations, and facilitate discussions

Be an active participant in the wider Tech Lead and engineering communities

Problem Solving & Innovation:

Diagnose problems and implement innovative solutions fitting into the wider Shell Trading picture

Manage dependencies, overcome obstacles, and maximize value against constraints, managing trade-offs or technical debt

Technical Skills and Mastery

Desirable Technologies & Programming Languages:

Expert in full stack development with expertise in one or more of the programming languages: React.js, Node.js, and Python with Cloud Native Platform Development (AWS/ Azure etc).

Expert in one or more of Data Development (SQL Databases, No SQL, Cloud Datastores etc) technologies

Hands-on experience with Databricks/Spark, Azure Data Factory a bonus

Azure Platform & Cloud Native:

Engineering experience in designing and building containers, Microservices, Cloud Native applications, and federated Data platforms (Data Mesh)

Data Management & Diverse Data Types:

Strong knowledge of data management: engineering, pipeline development, warehousing, storage, lifecycle management, privacy, security

Experience with diverse data types: big data, high velocity streaming, IoT, low latency event triggers, longitudinal time series

Proficiency in SQL and NoSQL databases

Azure Services & Integration:

Experience with Azure Functions, Web Apps, distributed/event-driven architecture (event hub, event bus, Kafka), ELK

Intermediate to advanced exposure to Azure Active Directory, Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake, Azure Storage, Azure Kubernetes Service, CosmosDB, Azure SQL Data Warehouse

CI/CD & DevOps: Proven years of experience in CI/CD delivery using Git/GitHub, VSTS/Azure DevOps, Terraform, Ansible

Agile & Engineering Standards:

Practical agile experience in both start-up and enterprise environments

Lead the engineering community to follow Software Engineering Management standards, ensuring consistency and reuse

Create a collaborative environment for technical roles to drive clear decisions and consistency