Algorithmic Software Developer
Location: London
Overview:
Mint Selection is partnered with an impressive and growing energy company that, alongside financing and developing energy generation and storage assets is developing a sophisticated algorithmic power trading platform to trade on the short-term markets for greater grid flexibility.
With a dominant presence in the UK and a growing footprint across Europe, they aim to leverage cutting-edge AI/ML for more sophisticated analysis, trading and hedging.
Role overview:
As an Algorithmic Software Developer, you will play a pivotal role in developing their core platform, tools and data processes. You will work closely with quants, data scientists and developers in a highly collaborative, mature environment and high-performing environment. The position blends classical software development with optimization, data science, and trading strategies and you will directly contribute to the core platform that will drive this company to achieve its goals.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and continuously improve the 24/7 algorithmic trading platform for the physical power market.
- Collaborate with quantitative traders and data scientists to create and optimize trading algorithms that leverage data-driven insights.
- Build and enhance data pipelines to handle large volumes of real-time and historical data.
- Design tools that support quants to perform rapid exploratory data analysis on market trends and dynamics.
- Integrate a range of models to enhance algorithmic decision-making processes.
- Actively participate in key architectural decisions, balancing in-house development with outsourcing as necessary.
- Perform code reviews and provide constructive feedback to ensure high technical quality and system performance.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics or related subject
- 3+ years of professional experience in software engineering or quantitative analytics deployed in production environments.
- Proficiency in Python; experience with other languages like C# is a plus.
- Experience developing and deploying algorithms, particularly within automated or algorithmic trading environments.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms like Google Cloud or Microsoft Azure.
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