Software Engineer

Overview

In this role you will build and maintain reliable backend services and data pipelines that support forecasting, trading and daily business operations for a growing energy trading business. You will work closely with engineers and traders to turn data and models into production-ready software. The role sits between backend and data engineering, connecting internal systems to external sources and improving system resilience. This is a hands-on, in-person opportunity to impact cash management, financial workflows and cross-market growth from a Bristol office.

Pay / Benefits

• up to £55,000 salary
• discretionary bonus
• 30 days’ holiday + bank holidays
• private healthcare and dental cover
• pension
• annual ski trip

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain data ingestion services connecting internal systems and external sources
• Develop backend services, integrations and workflows powering internal tools
• Create data transformations, validation and quality checks
• Operationalize forecasting and data science outputs into production services
• Improve failure handling, retries, monitoring and recovery
• Collaborate with engineering and trading to translate problems into practical solutions

Key requirements

• Backend development experience, ideally in Python
• Experience with AWS
• Strong understanding of SQL and relational databases
• Experience building and maintaining production software
• Interest in data pipelines, integrations and asynchronous workflows
• Enthusiastic, practical approach with ownership mindset

• Curiosity
• Questioning mindset
• Ability to take tasks through to completion
• Python
• AWS
• SQL

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