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Python Community Engineer

Vitol
Houston, USA
Full-time
Mid · 3+ years experience
Onsite
Discovered 1 weeks ago
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What you’ll do

  • Partner with teams across the business and technology organization to advance their development initiatives.
  • Support the rollout of agentic developer tools, including advising on skill and MCP design.
  • Serve as a local point of contact for a broad range of Python technical challenges.
  • Maintain and expand Vitol’s central Python package ecosystem.
  • Provide day-to-day application support, user training, and onboarding.
  • Work with business and support teams—including Helpdesk, Infrastructure, and Security—to improve systems and processes, simplify the user experience, and reduce risk.
  • What Success Looks Like in Year One
  • You have built up relationships across our various business teams and are seen as a go to person for our business developer community
  • Technical teams increasingly rely on you for representing & sharing our Python development standards
  • You have aided local teams and helped complete the migration from Miniconda to Astral UV across our end-user windows environments
  • You are comfortable working with and contributing back to core Python components, such as global shared libraries
  • Comprehensive benefit coverage includes:
  • Medical
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • Paid Vacation
  • 401k with company contributions
  • Life insurance
  • Short-term & Long-term disability
  • Job Requires to be in Office 5x a week
  • All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
  • Vitol is a leader in energy and commodities. Vitol produces, manages and delivers energy and commodities to consumers and industry worldwide. In addition to its primary business of trading, Vitol is invested in infrastructure globally, with $10+billion invested in long-term assets.
  • Vitol’s customers include national oil companies, multinationals, leading industrial companies and utilities. Founded in Rotterdam in 1966, today Vitol serves its customers from more than 40 offices worldwide. Revenues in 2025 were $343bn.
  • Our people are our business. Talent is precious to us and we create an environment in which individuals can reach their full potential, unhindered by hierarchy. Our team comprises more than 65+ nationalities and we are committed to developing and sustaining a diverse work force.
  • Learn more about us here.

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of experience using Python web development frameworks, such as Streamlit or FastAPI, in an enterprise environment
  • Proven ability to actively engage and collaborate within developer communities
  • Experience with both Anaconda and Astral’s uv in an enterprise environment.
  • Experience promoting software development best practices
  • Strong written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively with stakeholders and business users.
  • Experience with front-end technologies such as React, CSS, and HTML is a plus.
  • Commodities or energy industry experience is desirable

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