Energy Trading Full Stack Engineer – Spark

Description

The company is a global quantitative and systematic investment manager trading across all liquid asset classes, using data and technology to invest.

The Spark team builds and supports the company's energy trading business across gas, power and emissions markets globally.

The Spark platform covers buying and selling physical commodities and related derivatives, nominating volumes to pipelines and transmission networks, and managing the resulting positions and risk over time.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with traders, operations staff and other business users to understand what they need and turn it into workable tasks.
• Build features across the whole Spark platform, from interfaces and data models to the screens users rely on.
• Extend the platform to cover new trading locations, markets and products as the business grows.
• Maintain and improve the existing system, which is a long-lived production platform.
• Help shape the platform's technical direction and the quality of the codebase alongside colleagues.
• Own your work from the first conversation through to production.
• Operate in a small team with high engineering standards and limited process between writing code and deploying it.

Requirements

• Substantial commercial experience designing and delivering full stack applications.
• Strong grasp of programming and computer science fundamentals, ideally in a low-level language.
• Proficiency in modern browser JavaScript, including ES modules, web components and data-heavy interfaces.
• Sound working knowledge of SQL and both relational and analytical databases.
• Ability to work directly with non-technical colleagues and turn a vague request into a clear, testable requirement.
• Desirable: experience or willingness to learn Python, Rust, JavaScript and HTML.
• Desirable: experience or willingness to learn AWS and distributed environments.
• Desirable: experience or willingness to learn ClickHouse or another columnar or analytical database.
• Desirable: experience or willingness to learn AG Grid or comparable data-grid technologies.
• Desirable: experience or willingness to learn front-end frameworks, including Alpine.js and FAST Element web components.
• Desirable: experience or willingness to learn commodities, energy or financial markets. Prior exposure is helpful but not required, since the domain can be taught.

Conditions

The company is an equal opportunity employer.

Benefits

• The company offers initiatives and programmes to support a healthy work-life balance.