IT Senior Platform Engineer

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Overview of the job

This is a hands-on, fully in-sourced, deep technical engineering role.

A successful candidate is a highly collaborative problem-solving engineer who is good in asking questions.

A great candidate is motivated by coaching, guiding, and pair programming with junior and mid-level engineers. He/ She finds fulfillment in seeing colleagues build functional, testable, and reliable digital systems.

Career progression for this role includes continuing with technical specialization, or adjacent technical role, or people management, within the organization and broader company.

Your team

The DevX organization will activate P&G's Digital for Growth and Value by accelerating Software Delivery Teams across the entire company.

The team is global and has around 40+ members, spread across Asia: Philippines, Europe Poland, Germany, UK, and NALA: US, and Costa Rica.

35% Senior Engineers and Senior Technical Product Managers. 35% women team composition, with diverse multiple members from under-represented backgrounds.

One-third of the team's population is in Manila, with an average tenure of 5 years in P&G, mix of fresh university graduates from various schools (no school monopoly), former interns, internal transfers from other P&G teams, and external experience hires. This is a new additional role.

Supporting time zone

European hours, 1 PM to 10 PM Local Manila time

Desired length of commitment to the role

Preferably 3 years

How success looks like

Functional Performance: 80% hands-on engineering. Success metrics include code test coverage, change failure rate, story velocity, impact and delivery of key features for the customers. Compliance scores regarding Technical, Security, Cloud, Software Development policies and standards.

Revenue and Profits: Our platform is largely driven by how we enable our brands and other software development teams. Driving performance and efficiency should enable cost reduction. Members are expected to drive down infrastructure costs by optimizing solutions and driving scale.

Time-based Performance: Senior members are expected to deliver major features in the first 90 days, with a focus on learning our systems in the first 30 days.

Employee Growth: Senior platform engineer baseline expectations are that you deliver with excellence and grow in your technical capabilities, while understanding what to prioritize to drive value for the team. Senior members are expected to help and grow junior members to thrive and improve skills.

Responsibilities of the role

• Engineering Execution of user stories from a groomed product backlog.
• Working with product managers and other engineers to refine and clarify backlog items.
• Proper Git SCM habits, clear and well-defined pull requests meeting our Definition of Done.
• Delivery of testable and idiomatic backend code.
• Technical coaching and guidance to junior members.

Job Qualifications

Technical Skills Must-have:

• Served as hands-on tech lead for the delivery of a major software project from zero to one (at least 5000 DAU)
• 5+ years' experience in a static typed compiled language (Java, C, C++, C#, Golang, Rust)
• 5+ years' experience working with SQL databases (Postgres preferred. MySQL, Oracle, or mysql would be considered)
• Deep experience in SQL Query authoring, optimization.
• Strong expertise in Git. Good understanding of how to work in large teams, avoid, and deal with merge conflicts

Technical Skills Nice-to-have:

• Experience implementing Event-based Architecture, at scale
• Experience with Webhook
• Experience with GCP tools (eventarc, pub/sub, BigQuery)
• Experience with Kafka
• Experience building applications using containers (Docker, Cloud Run, Kubernetes)

Collaboration, Communication, Coaching Skills:

• Fearless in asking questions to drive maximum clarity
• Driving complex ideas towards simplicity. Willingness to understand and improve the Client Experience and User Journey
• Asking why. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience in coaching and mentoring junior software engineers
• Ability to communicate effectively between technical and non-technical resources
• Foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement within the engineering teams.

What we offer:

Project ownership and autonomy to deliver change and results from the beginning.

Dynamic and encouraging work environment. At P&G our employees are at the core, we value every individual and encourage initiatives, promoting agility and work/life balance.

Continuous coaching and mentoring from line manager and colleagues. Corporate and functional training are available from day one. The Community of Practitioners exists locally to support growth. Industry Certifications (ITIL, DevOps, PSM, MS portfolio, product or technology specific) and trainings.

Full additional benefit program like private health care, P&G Vibrant Living, PG stock options, saving plans, possible promotions, flexible work arrangements.

Big Picture understanding of P&G IT and Product Supply organization and its Services in global multi-functional teams with several locations across continents.

About us

We produce globally recognized brands and we grow the best business leaders in the industry. With a portfolio of trusted brands as diverse as ours, it is paramount our leaders are able to lead with courage the vast array of brands, categories and functions. We serve consumers around the world with one of the strongest portfolios of trusted, quality, leadership brands, including Always, Ariel, Gillette, Head & Shoulders, Herbal Essences, Oral-B, Pampers, Pantene, Tampax and more. Our community includes operations in approximately 70 countries worldwide.

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We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate against individuals on the basis of race, color, gender, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, citizenship, disability, HIV/AIDS status, or any other legally protected factor.

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