Senior Software Engineer, Data

Responsibilities

We are representing a confidential energy trading organization seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Data for their Berlin office. In this role, you will build the services, infrastructure and data platforms that power critical business operations. You'll work at the intersection of backend software engineering and data engineering, developing scalable backend services, designing data pipelines and building underlying data infrastructure that enables reliable, cost-effective, and high-performance data processing.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Design, develop and maintain scalable backend services and APIs that support data ingestion, processing and distribution
• Build and maintain reliable data ingestion pipelines for structured and unstructured data from a wide variety of internal and external sources
• Develop reusable frameworks and tooling that simplify onboarding new data sources and improve developer productivity
• Design and optimise scalable data platforms including databases, data lakes, metadata catalogues and storage solutions
• Continuously improve the reliability, scalability, observability and cost-efficiency of data infrastructure
• Integrate data across multiple systems while reducing duplication and ensuring high data quality
• Develop and maintain orchestration workflows and automated data processing pipelines
• Build internal libraries and services that enable other engineering teams to access and consume data efficiently
• Monitor, troubleshoot and optimise production systems and data pipelines
• Contribute to architecture discussions and technical decisions across the data platform
• Collaborate closely with software engineers, data engineers, infrastructure engineers and data consumers to deliver high-impact solutions

What We're Looking For

We seek an experienced Senior Data Engineer with hands-on backend development experience who enjoys solving complex technical problems, takes ownership of their work, and can make pragmatic engineering decisions that maximise impact.

Essential requirements:

• Strong software engineering fundamentals with experience building production backend systems in the financial services industry
• Professional experience developing applications and services using Python in the financial services industry
• Experience designing and maintaining RESTful APIs and backend services
• Experience building and maintaining data pipelines or large-scale data processing systems
• Strong SQL skills and experience working with relational databases
• Experience working with cloud platforms such as AWS
• Experience working with containerised applications and modern software delivery practices
• Familiarity with messaging and asynchronous processing patterns
• Experience with infrastructure automation and CI/CD pipelines
• Strong understanding of software design principles, testing and maintainability
• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively within a team
• Strong ownership mentality with the ability to prioritise work based on business impact

Highly desirable:

• Experience working in a commodities trading house or hedge fund
• Experience building services using FastAPI or similar modern Python frameworks
• Experience with streaming platforms such as Kafka
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and cloud-native architectures
• Familiarity with distributed systems and high-throughput data processing

How We Work with You

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Pay

Compensation details will be discussed during the screening process with our recruiting team.

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