Lead Software Engineer - EU Natural Gas & Power

ZipRecruiter; London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading investment management firm in London is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the development of a new trading desk. The role involves collaborating with trading and data teams to design backend systems for analytics in the European Power and Natural Gas markets. Candidates should have extensive front-office trading experience and strong programming skills, particularly in Python.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of Front-Office Trading Experience.
• Experience with complex, multi-site systems architectures.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with trading, research, and data teams to develop core analytics.
• Design scalable, maintainable solutions for data analytics/trading tools.

Skills

Python

Communication

Collaboration

Education

BS Degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

Unix

Job description

Job Description

Company Insight

One of the world's pre-eminent investment management firms are looking to bring on board a Senior Software Engineer/Developer to help lead a brand new trading desk buildout. The business have specified a need for someone possessing technical leadership experience from a high performing and front-office development trading environment. The role would be embedded within the business, where you will partner closely with trading, quant research and data teams on a daily basis. You will design and build backend systems/models in scalable code to be implemented into a cutting-edge modelling and data analytics infrastructure to accurately track and capitalize on the live supply and demand for European Power and Natural Gas.

Responsibilities

• Partner closely and actively collaborate with trading, research and data teams to develop core analytics, delivering key technological initiatives for the trading division.

• Understand and translate business challenges, driving technical/quantitative solutions for other engineers within your team.

• Handle and pull together large data sets from diverse array of sources in order to build data analytics/trading tools.

• Design and Structure scalable, maintainable solutions, improving model frameworks and performance.

• Act as a key stakeholder and technical liaison in a truly world-class advanced technology platform and drive enhancements that help maintain the firm's competitive advantage within global markets.

Requirements

• Outstanding academic credentials with track record of overachievement - BS Degree or higher in Computer Science/Engineering or other STEM Discipline.

• Programming Fluency in Python - Experience using multiple programming is desirable.

• 7+ years of Front-Office Trading Experience with complex, multi-site, systems architectures, strong unix operating system knowledge and exposure to a variety of database technologies.

• Exposure to commodity trading markets would be advantageous.

• Possess strong motivation to work in a hands-on collaborative environment and able to demonstrate excellent and commercial communication skills and attention to detail.