Senior Software Engineer [Python]

at  TrailStone Group

ABOUT YOU

This person will be a proactive and pragmatic problem solver, experienced and confident with Python programming. In addition, we are looking for the following:

ESSENTIAL SKILLS:

• Minimum of 5 years of relevant Python experience.
• Strong knowledge of object-oriented, functional and asynchronous programming and design patterns.
• Substantial SQL experience and understanding of database fundamentals.
• Ensure best ETL practices for processing, cleansing, and verifying the integrity of large datasets.
• A passion for delivering clean code and working with a test-driven mindset.
• An appreciation of working in a hybrid-cloud and container-driven architecture (partly on-premise and partly AWS).
• A background in Computer Science, ideally supported by academics in this field.
• Domain knowledge in the energy or financial sector is highly desirable.

ABOUT THE ROLE

As a Senior Software Engineer you will be working on developing best-in-class microservices and data pipelines for our renewables trading platform, in Python. Currently we are in a strong growth phase and are working on building a world class product to help us scale and bring renewables to many more power markets in the world, while trading many smaller electricity assets. If you are interested in contributing to the success of this platform keep on reading!
This will be a full-time role, based in our new Berlin office on Ernst-Reuter-Platz, with the following responsibilities:

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Design, develop and maintain microservices, ETL jobs and system components for our Python-based data integration, processing and analytics platform
• Collaborate in a cross-functional team with engineers, business analysts, traders and data scientists
• Stay up-to-date with the latest trends in technology and continuously improve our platform
• Improve and guard code quality through pull requests and code reviews.
• Help mentor more junior engineers.