Job Description
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**About the Role**
As a Senior Python Engineer you will be working on developing best-in-class
microservices and data pipelines for our renewables trading platform.
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 an office-based role, on-site in one of our many international
offices, 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.
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**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.
_Our Tech Stack:_
* Our tech stack includes Python (FastAPI, Pandas, Django), AWS (S3, Athena, ECS), Redis, Docker, Atlassian (Jira, Bitbucket), SQL Server, and more.
_Traits:_
* A strong bias for action.
* Actively help yourself and others to be successful.
* A positive, team-oriented mindset, and a passion for learning and sharing knowledge.
* Self-starter, requiring little supervision or guidance.
* Shows ownership and accountability in all aspects of work with a focus on delivery.
* Comfortable in a startup environment with less structure and driven by deadlines.
* Continuously challenge the status quo.
**About Trailstone**
Trailstone is a global energy and technology company, operating at the
intersection of renewable and conventional power. We trade energy in global
markets, and we provide a best-in-class service to manage the inherent
intermittency of renewable power generation across the short, medium and long
term.
As an energy trader, we buy and sell electricity and gas which is physically
delivered on the grids, and we leverage our physical market knowledge to trade
financial commodities.
As a provider of renewable energy management services, we take on the
complexity of managing renewable power across different countries so that our
customers can focus on their core mission of investment and growth. Trailstone
offers an efficient, fully automated front-to-back renewable power management
platform underpinned by our long-standing market experience, proprietary
technology, data analytics and meteorology.
**We’re different, and we like it that way!**
Here at Trailstone, we value our differences. In fact, our success depends
upon them.
Differences in backgrounds, identities and experiences lead to differing views
of the world. Different world views lead to healthy differences in opinions.
Different opinions are essential to creating a robust marketplace of ideas.
And it is our ideas that will make Trailstone a market leader in energy
innovation and disruption!
By our commitment to a diverse and inclusive workforce, Trailstone is creating
value for our employees, our investors, and our communities.
So regardless of your gender, race, ethnicity, orientation, physical
limitations, how you identify, how you pray, who you love, where you went to
school, who you consider family, or how old you are… you can belong here!
