Software Engineer, C#

About Us

Engelhart was founded in 2013 by BTG Pactual Group as a commodities trading company. Its business model is “asset light” and highly diversified – giving it the ability to adapt effectively and nimbly to changing market conditions. It has assembled successful multidisciplinary teams, leveraging advanced fundamental analysis with deep quantitative and weather research capabilities.  Its activities are underpinned by strong risk management practices and by powerful technology and operational excellence. Its exceptional teams have diverse global backgrounds and decades of experience, and are driven by a highly collaborative culture, across products and competencies.

In 2024, Engelhart acquired Trailstone, a global energy trading and technology company. The acquisition provides Engelhart with new expertise, analytics and proprietary technology which is used to provide risk management and optimisation services to manage the intermittency of renewable power generation for its client base. The acquisition also expanded Engelhart’s capabilities into physical natural gas across North America.

Its talented and experienced individuals work together according to its four company values: be bold, be collaborative, be proactive, be your best.

Software Engineer, C# – Berlin, Germany

 

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced C# Developer to join our growing Berlin office. This role will sit in the Trading Systems Development team, working on developing best in class back-end services and microservices for our renewables trading platform.

Currently we are in a strong, sustained growth phase and the team is 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 more smaller electricity assets. This role will be joining an international team with tangible impact on our platform's success from day one. 

In addition, this role will own the following responsibilities: 

• Design, develop and maintain software including trading robots for continuous and auction-based renewables trading.
• Work in a cross-functional team with engineers, business analysts, traders, data engineers and data scientists.
• Stay up to date with the latest trends in technology and continuously improve our code base, systems, and processes.
• Mentor junior members in the team by emphasising code quality and conducting pull requests and code reviews.

 

About You

This person will be an autonomous developer, comfortable and experienced collaborating with non-technical staff. In addition, we are looking for somebody with the following: 

Requirements & Technical Skills: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or another technical field, and/or demonstrable industry experience.
• Significant professional experience working with server-side C#
• Experience with 3rd party APIs for trading or market data e.g. ICE, CME, EPEX, Trayport, ERCOT
• Experience with distributed systems middleware e.g. RabbitMQ, MSMQ, nServiceBus, Redis PubSub, Tibco EMS
• Sound understanding of object-oriented, SOLID, distributed, and asynchronous programming and design patterns in C#
• Sound understanding of microservice architecture, domain-driven design, well-designed APIs and efficient algorithms.
• Ideally knowledgeable about parts of the following tech stack: ASP.NET Core, SignalR, OpenAPI, RabbitMQ, Microsoft SQL Server, Redis.
• Experience with ReactJS, Python, WPF is desirable but not essential.
• Ideally domain knowledge in the energy sector

Other Attributes: 

• Passion for delivering clean code and working with a test-driven mindset.
• Proactive, pragmatic problem solver with a strong bias for action.
• Actively help yourself and others to be successful.
• A positive, team-oriented mindset, and a passion for mentoring and sharing knowledge.
• Self-starter, requiring little supervision or guidance.
• Shows ownership and accountability in all aspects of work.
• Comfortable in a start-up environment with less structure and driven by deadlines.
• Continuously learn and challenge the status quo.

 

What we offer

• Competitive compensation and participation in Engelhart’s discretionary bonus plan. 
• 28 days of annual holiday entitlement, excluding German public holidays.
• A sociable working environment in a brand-new office space with an open, international culture.
• Flat hierarchies and a no-ego culture for direct decision-making processes without the bureaucracy.
• Eligibility to receive external and internal training in accordance with our Training & Development Policy.
• Eligibility for an annual employer contribution towards your private pension.

We believe in inclusivity and are therefore dedicated to ensuring all employees – across gender identity, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, life experience, background and more – feel welcome and included in the company. We promote diversity because we believe it is essential to our ability to think holistically.