Python Engineer, Beacon – Gas, Power & Renewables Technology
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What You Will Do
- Design, build, and maintain risk and analytics solutions for the Power and Gas desk using Python on top of Beacon Platform
- Integrate quantitative models developed by the quant team into Beacon and connect them to relevant market data sources
- Work in a fast-paced trading environment where decisions are made quickly and feedback is direct
- Engage directly with traders, quants, analysts, and the deals desk to gather requirements, understand business needs, and present technical solutions
- Collaborate with other Beacon engineers within the team to ensure consistency, code quality, and shared best practices
- Contribute to the ongoing evolution of the GPR technology stack
- What We Are Looking For
Technical Skills
- Strong Python development skills
- 2+ years of hands-on development experience on Beacon Platform, Quarts, or Athena; candidates with SecDB development experience will also be considered
- Solid understanding of quantitative modelling concepts — you will not be building models yourself, but you will be integrating them and need to understand what they do
- Experience with Apache Kafka is a plus
- Domain Knowledge
- Good knowledge of commodities markets, with a preference for US power and gas (both physical and paper)
- Familiarity with instruments such as heat rate options, gas storage products, PPAs, and tolling agreements is highly desirable
- Soft Skills
- Confident and resilient under pressure — comfortable receiving direct, candid feedback and using it constructively
- Comfortable engaging with non-technical stakeholders — traders, analysts, and deal desk — to translate business requirements into technical solutions
- Able to present and explain technical approaches clearly to a mixed audience
- Self-sufficient and delivery-focused; this is not a role with heavy management oversight
- Key Relations and Reporting Structure
- Reporting Line
- Reports directly to the Global Head, Gas, Power & Renewables Technology
About Trafigura
Trafigura is a multinational commodity trading company headquartered in Singapore, founded in 1993. It is the world's largest private metals trader and one of the largest oil and energy traders, connecting producers and consumers of minerals, metals, oil, gas, and power across more than 150 countries.
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