Staff Software Engineer/API Engineer

About us

Come be a part of driving National Grid’s digital transformation! We are digital creators, continuous learners and daring innovators. We leverage digital innovative ways to create products and catalyze the transformation of National Grid’s business units into more agile and digitally native organizations in our shared purpose of bringing energy to life.

Job Purpose

Our electricity transmission business needs a modern solution offering flexibility across jurisdictions while implementing best practices. Our colleagues who work in the field have traditionally relied on a series of manual, paper-based processes involving non-integrated systems to complete their work. You will be part of the OnMyWay team that is fixing that! We have a transformative digital product which enables our colleagues to pick up and complete jobs in real time from their devices!

What you’ll do

• Collaborate with development teams and business units to identify, define, develop, modify, and implement reusable Services and APIs
• Design and build backend system integration solutions with an emphasis on scalability and operability
• Ensure the responsiveness, reliability, and performance of applications
• Perform activities ranging from software design, operating architecture integration, and technology selection
• Work in an Agile Scrum environment as we work towards a Continuous Integration/Deployment model
• You will be seen as a leader and subject matter expert in API knowledge and will mentor engineers

What you’ll need

• 7+ years of experience demonstrating responsibility for developing solutions in support of large-scale software development projects, this includes development of technical requirements, testing and integration plans using Agile methodologies
• Experience with database optimization, schema design, and query building
• Hands on experience building restful API’s and services
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Nice to Have

• Experience with cloud-computing services, such as Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure
• Native iOS development
• React, TypeScript, Node.js, .NET
• Experience with scripting languages like Python

More Information

At National Grid, we keep the lights on and homes warm. But it’s so much more than that. We keep people connected and society moving. This is no easy feat, and it takes all of us. But National Grid supplies us with the environment to make it happen. As we generate momentum in the energy transition for all, we don’t plan on leaving any of our customers in the dark. So, join us and help bring energy to life.

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Salary

$142,000 – $200,000 a year

This position has a career path which provides for advancement opportunities within and across bands as you develop and evolve in the position; gaining experience, expertise and acquiring and applying technical skills. Candidates will be assessed and provided offers against the minimum qualifications of this role and their individual experience.

National Grid is an equal opportunity employer that values a broad diversity of talent, knowledge, experience and expertise. We foster a culture of inclusion that drives employee engagement to deliver superior performance to the communities we serve. National Grid is proud to be an affirmative action employer. We encourage minorities, women, individuals with disabilities and protected veterans to join the National Grid team.