Software Engineer, Python

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced back-end [Python] software engineer to join our growing Berlin office. This role will join the Trading & Commercial Development Team, developing best in class back-end services and microservices for our renewables trading platform, with Python.

The team is building a world-class product to help us scale and bring renewables to many more power markets in the world, while trading many more smaller electricity assets. This project is expanding at pace, following Trailstone's merger with Engelhart Commodities Trading Partners. As a result, this role will be joining an international team with tangible impact on our platform's success from day one.

This will be a full-time role, owning the following responsibilities:

• Designing, developing and maintaining containerised services for auction-based renewables trading.
• Working in a cross-functional team with engineers, business analysts, traders, data engineers and data scientists.
• Staying up to date with the latest trends in technology and continuously improving our code base, systems and processes.
• Mentoring junior members of the team by emphasising code quality and conducting pull requests and code reviews.

About You

This person will be a seasoned Python developer, experienced working with time-sensitive hybrid-cloud systems in order to deliver immediate impact to our growing renewables trading platform. This person will be working closely with commercial stakeholders on a regular basis, so tangible experience collaborating with non-technical staff is highly desirable.

We believe the following skills & experiences will best set someone up for success in this role, therefore will be prioritising the following essential criteria:

• Significant relevant Python experience.
• Strong knowledge of object-oriented, functional and asynchronous programming and design patterns.
• Substantial SQL experience and understanding of relational database fundamentals.
• A passion for delivering clean code and working with a test-driven mindset.
• An appreciation of working in a hybrid-cloud and container-driven architecture (partly on-premise and partly AWS).

In addition to the above, the following experience is highly desirable but not essential for application:

• Domain knowledge in the energy or financial sector.
• Experience developing services in C#

Our Tech Stack

Our tech stack includes Python (FastAPI, Pandas), AWS (ECS, Aurora), Redis, Docker, Atlassian (Jira, Bitbucket), SQL Server, C# and more.