Energy Markets Quantitative Trading Engineer

DTU — Technical University of Denmark; Denmark; On-site; DKK 700,000 - 900,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Dynamic environment

Career growth

Impactful work

Competitive salary

Team events

Lunch provided

Modern office Aarhus

Job summary

Nitor Energy is a fast-growing energy trading company, rapidly moving from start-up to scale-up. We offer opportunities for learning and development with a tight-knit team of traders, coders and analysts.

You’ll work on algorithmic trading across the full stack, from strategy research to production, with direct impact on trading results. You’ll join a specialized environment where ideas move quickly from research to production and collaborate closely with traders and live market decisions.

Qualifications

• Master’s or PhD in a quantitative field such as Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, or similar.
• Experience with algorithmic trading systems or high-performance applications.
• Strong software engineering skills in Python, C++, or C#.
• Analytical mindset with strong problem-solving and execution drive.
• Ability to drive solutions from idea to production.
• Interest in financial markets and live trading environments.
• Experience with algorithmic trading in continuous markets, market making, ML on tick data, or energy trading is highly relevant.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and deploy algorithmic trading strategies with traders and quants.
• Backtest, analyze, and validate strategies for performance and robustness.
• Optimize execution, performance, and reliability of live trading setups.
• Develop tools and infrastructure for strategy research and live trading.
• Apply quantitative methods to improve trading performance.
• Maintain and improve the internal framework for strategy development and monitoring.
• Contribute to code quality and best practices across the team.
• Stay updated on market trends and trading technologies.

Skills

Python

C++

C#

Algorithms

Backtesting

Performance optimization

Education

Master’s or PhD in a quantitative field

Job description

Nitor Energy is a fast-growing energy trading company, rapidly moving from start-up to scale-up. We offer opportunities for learning and development with a tight-knit team of traders, coders and analysts.

You’ll work on algorithmic trading across the full stack, from strategy research to production, with direct impact on trading results. You’ll join a specialized environment where ideas move quickly from research to production and collaborate closely with traders and live market decisions.