Principal Front Office Applications Engineer

at  Trafigura

Main Purpose:
We are recruiting for a software engineer to work directly with the traders and research analysts in our trading teams. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a fast-paced commercial setting, playing a vital role in a real time, data and software driven trading environment.
Whilst working directly with the trading teams who are based in various global sites such as Geneva, Houston and Singapore, the engineer will be part of the global data science and engineering team who are responsible for the ingestion and management of market and fundamental data, sophisticated modelling techniques, data & analytics applications and solutions.
The software engineer will be technically leading and building applications and software using cutting edge cloud and software technology stacks. Building end to end software platforms and stacks in a modern and innovation fuelled business.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities, Key Responsibilities:

• 5+ years of Python and/or Java based language

Key Responsibilities

• Engineer software such as components, frameworks and micro-services
• Build core infrastructure and common services for use across DnA applications, such as common services and frameworks.
• Build cloud native big data platforms and analytics solutions
• Build and maintain time critical data integration pipelines (ETL/ELT)
• Implement a strong SDLC and agile principles to software delivery
• Apply domain driven design
• Problem solving and applying software solutions and automation to complex business issues and processe