Vice President, Senior Front Office Software Engineer

Location: Houston, TX

Castleton Commodities International is hiring a Senior Front Office Software Engineer to join our Data Science & Technology team. The ideal candidate will have demonstrated a passion for solving business problems with technology and possess strong programming experience. This position is a hands-on role responsible for developing, supporting, and maintaining a firmwide investment, trading, and analytics platform supported by APIs, applications, and visualization tools.

This is an excellent opportunity for candidates with a strong technical background to interface directly with CCI’s commercial personnel. It is also a terrific opportunity to be involved in the early stages of the firm’s shift toward more cloud-first development.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with commercial trading teams to engineer and optimize trading processes and models.
• Develop services and APIs in Python utilizing the latest frameworks and libraries with an emphasis on design patterns and code quality.
• Develop software to support commercial activity, including supply and demand, positions, and market data analysis.
• Develop cloud-native solutions to promote integration within a Firmwide Front Office IT platform's framework, including analytical and visualization tools.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or higher degree in Computer Science or related field of study.
• 10+ years of prior professional programming experience utilizing Python programming languages.
• Advancedunderstandingofobject-orientedprogrammingconcepts.
• Working knowledge in Linux and Windows environments.
• Excellent knowledge of SQL and database technologies.
• Ability to communicate and interact with a wide range of users ranging from very technical to non-technical.
• Results-oriented team player who can handle rapidly changing projects and priorities while maintaining a strong professional presence.
• Strong analytical skill-set with demonstrated attention to detail.
• Proven ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic, and high-intensity environment with timely responsiveness and flexibility to work beyond normal business hours when required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience in energy/commodities trading.
• Working knowledge working with cloud-based technologies (AWS).
• Snowflake experience.
• Familiarity with DevOps practices.

Experience with containers (ECS / EKS)

Employee Programs & Benefits

• CCI offers competitive benefits and programs to support our employees, their families and local communities. These include:
• Competitive comprehensive medical, dental, retirement and life insurance benefits
• Employee assistance & wellness programs
• Parental and family leave policies
• CCI in the Community: Each office has a Charity Committee and as a part of this program employees are allocated 2 days annually to volunteer at the selected charities.
• Charitable contribution match program
• Tuition assistance & reimbursement

Quarterly Innovation & Collaboration Awards

• Employee discount program, including access to fitness facilities
• Competitive paid time off
• Continued learning opportunities
• Visit https://www.cci.com/careers/life-at-cci/#to learn more!
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