Energy Trading Full Stack Engineer – Spark

The role

A Full Stack Engineer will work with the Spark Team to build and support the energy trading business. You will translate requirements from traders and business users into functionality across the Spark platform.

What you will do

• Engage with traders, operations staff and business users to understand requirements.
• Implement features end to end across the Spark platform.
• Extend the platform to support new trading locations, markets and products.
• Maintain and improve the existing estate as a long-lived production system.
• Contribute to the platform technical direction and codebase standard.
• Take ownership of work from first conversation through to production.
• Work within a small team with limited process between engineer and deployment.

Required qualifications

• Substantial commercial experience in the design and delivery of full stack applications.
• Strong command of programming and computer science concepts, preferably in a low-level language.
• Proficiency in modern browser-based JavaScript, including ES modules, web components and data-intensive interfaces.
• Sound working knowledge of SQL and relational and analytical databases.
• Demonstrable ability to work directly with non-technical colleagues and translate imprecise requests into clear and testable requirements.

Nice to have

• Python, Rust, JavaScript and HTML.
• AWS and the deployment of distributed environments.
• ClickHouse or another columnar or analytical database.
• AG Grid or comparable data-grid technologies.
• Front-end frameworks, including Alpine.js and FAST Element web components.
• Commodities, energy or financial markets.

Benefits

• Initiatives and programs to enable employees achieve a healthy work-life balance.

About the company

QRT is a global quantitative and systematic investment manager, operating across all liquid asset classes. It is a data- and technology-driven organization applying scientific methods to investing.