Senior Software Engineer - Market Operations

Fractal Power•New York, NY

6d•$220,000 - $300,000•Remote

About The Position

This role involves end-to-end ownership of the market operations platform, from the user interface down to the underlying infrastructure. Responsibilities include real-time optimization across numerous batteries, developing trading strategies for various market types (DART, PTP, CRR/FTR), managing the interface for traders and quants, establishing connections with ISOs for trading, and overseeing settlement and risk management systems. The company is targeting live operation within the next 2-3 months, requiring the engineer to execute from day one and have significant input into the architecture, stack, and sequencing. The role involves direct collaboration with traders and quants to understand their needs and co-create the product roadmap within a small engineering team, without a Product Manager layer. The team is lean with high individual responsibility, emphasizing direct building and shipping with end-users.

Requirements

8+ years building production systems.
Experience taking a system from zero to scale.
Comfortable with end-to-end ownership of a product, from UI through infrastructure.
Strong product ownership skills, able to design for demanding users without a PM.
0-to-1 experience with an eye on longevity.
Ability to stand up a system quickly without creating technical debt.
Tight collaboration skills with traders and quants.
Ability to gather requirements directly from users and implement them rapidly.
Directness and an appetite for learning a new domain quickly.
Ability to ramp up quickly in energy markets (understanding is a plus, not a requirement).
An appetite for intensity and a fast-paced environment.

Nice To Haves

Understanding of energy markets.

Responsibilities

Own the market operations platform end to end, from UI to infrastructure.
Implement real-time optimization across tens of batteries.
Develop trading strategies for DART, PTP, and CRR/FTR.
Manage the interface used by traders and quants daily.
Establish and maintain connections to ISOs for trading.
Oversee settlement and risk management systems.
Execute from day one with a focus on live operation within 2-3 months.
Contribute significantly to architecture, stack, and sequencing decisions.
Work directly with traders and quants to understand their challenges and build the roadmap together.
Build the market operations platform, including battery optimization and trading strategies for energy and ancillary services.
Develop the interface for the trading team, covering positions, P&L, risk controls, bid construction, submission, approvals, and audit trails.
Build market interfaces and telemetry, integrating with scheduling entities and ISOs.
Ensure reliable ingestion of market data, asset telemetry, and state of charge.
Implement monitoring to detect stale data feeds before traders do.
Manage settlement and liquidity, including statement ingestion, reconciliation, invoice validation, disputes, collateral tracking, and reporting for finance and risk.