Senior Python Engineer - Pre-trade (Gas & Power Industry)
About The Position
Talan is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build a greenfield data ingestion platform for a key client in the energy trading industry. The role will architect and develop the platform’s first services and establish foundational decisions such as service boundaries, data models, and scalability. The platform will support pre-trade workflows, market data, pricing, and analytics using high-volume energy market data. The engineer will build cloud-native applications on AWS, using Python as the core language, and design for security, reliability, and scale. The position is based in Houston with a hybrid schedule requiring at least three days onsite per week. Talan offers sponsorship under specified treaty-based U.S. work visas, including TN and E-2 for eligible Canadian, Mexican, and French citizens; other visa types are not supported or transferred.
Requirements
- 10+ years of hands-on backend development experience with strong object-oriented design, including event-driven and distributed systems.
- 5+ years building complex Python applications that handle high-volume data, APIs, microservices, and event-driven architectures.
- 5+ years deploying Python applications on AWS.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, or Quantitative Finance.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in energy trading, commodities, market data, pricing, or financial markets.
- Microsoft Azure experience.
- Experience with Athena or Redshift.
- Experience with C#/.NET, React, or Angular.
- AWS or Azure certifications.
Responsibilities
- Design and build cloud-native applications, APIs, microservices, and event-driven pipelines on AWS.
- Develop Python backend services and automation that reliably process large volumes of market and energy data.
- Architect services for market data, pricing, analytics, and pre-trade workflows.
- Codify infrastructure with Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation to make environments repeatable and auditable.
- Build CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, monitoring, and observability for production systems.
- Apply cloud security and secure development practices from the beginning of development.
- Tune system performance, reliability, scalability, and AWS spending as workloads grow.
- Lead architecture and code reviews and establish team standards.
Benefits
- 401(k) retirement plan with company matching.
- 15 days of paid vacation per year at hire, increasing up to 27 days according to seniority; unused annual vacation days are cashed out.
- Eight paid holidays, five sick days, and two personal days per year.
- Company health, dental, and vision insurance plans, plus FSA.
- Voluntary short-term and long-term disability coverage.
- Commuter/transit benefits.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
