Quantitative Developer (Energy Trading)

TL;DR

Quantitative Developer (Energy Trading): Building and operating a Python-based trading stack for power markets with an accent on platform development and technical operations. Focus on productionizing quantitative models, optimizing low-latency data solutions, and designing scalable trading systems.

Location: Onsite in Berlin, Germany

Company

hirify.global is a diversified commodities trading company leveraging advanced quantitative research and proprietary technology to optimize renewable power and energy markets.

What you will do

• Build and operate a Python-based trading stack for signal generation, backtesting, and execution logic.
• Develop optimized data solutions to ensure low-latency data retrieval.
• Productionize and monitor live trading algorithms in a real-market environment.
• Apply software engineering best practices to design scalable, robust, and testable systems.
• Collaborate with quant researchers, traders, and risk teams to deploy new strategies.
• Develop cloud-native applications and create versatile reporting and visualization frameworks.

Requirements

• Minimum 2 years of experience as a Python developer.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals, including OOP, functional patterns, data structures, and algorithms.
• Proficiency with version control, code review, testing, documentation, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience testing and productionizing quantitative models (prediction, optimization, or performance attribution).
• Excellent communication skills and a strong team orientation.
• Must be based in Berlin, Germany.

Nice to have

• Experience in financial services or energy trading companies.
• Proficiency with Python scientific libraries: NumPy, Pandas, Scikit-learn, or Polars.
• Experience with time-series databases, Airflow, and containerized cloud services.
• Knowledge of at least one statically typed programming language.
• SQL proficiency.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive compensation and participation in a discretionary bonus plan.
• 28 days of annual holiday plus Berlin public holidays.
• Annual contribution to a private pension scheme.
• Monthly subsidies for BVG tickets and ClassPass membership.
• Financial support for German language courses.
• International, open, and sociable working environment.