Python Developer

  • Full-time

Company Description

Vitol is a leader in the energy sector with a presence across the spectrum: from oil through to power, renewables and carbon.  From 40 offices worldwide, we seek to add value across the energy supply chain, including deploying our scale and market understanding to help facilitate the energy transition. To date, we have committed over $2 billion of capital to renewable projects, and are identifying and developing low-carbon opportunities around the world.

Job Description

We are looking for a talented and motivated Python Developer to help us expand our data assets in support of our analytical capabilities in a full-time role.  This role will have the opportunity to interface directly with our brokers, analysts, researchers and data scientists to drive out requirements and deliver a wide range of data related needs.

What you will do:

  • Working with our business sponsors to drive out requirements for data ingestion and access
  • Contribute and help drive business development efforts including standardization and consolidation of core modules
  • Writing modular, reusable components to liaise between external sources of data, internal tools and databases
  • Maintaining the cleanliness and centrality of the Vitol Python codebase
  • Able to translate business requirements into a technical delivery following existing patterns where possible
  • Efficiently coordinate with our other global team members
  • Participate in Vitol’s python development community and act as a liaison for our growing business development efforts

Qualifications

  • 4+ years of enterprise-level coding experience with Python
  • Computer Science, MIS or related degree
  • Experience scraping websites with Requests, Beautiful Soup, Selenium, etc.
  • Oracle / PL SQL development experience including stored procedures
  • Strong understating of object-oriented design, design patterns, SOA architectures
  • Past experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment
  • Proficient understanding of peer-reviewing, code versioning, and bug/issue tracking tools.
  • Familiarity with Pandas and NumPy packages
  • Commodities/Energy Industry experience desired
  • Familiarity with containerization solutions like Docker and Kubernetes is a plus
  • Strong communication skills (written and verbal)

Additional Information

Desired attributes:

  • Team player
  • Self-motivated with the ability to prioritize, meet deadlines, and manage changing priorities
  • Able to work in a high pressure on-call environment with changing priorities
  • Proactive and customer focused “make it work” mentality
  • Highly responsive, energetic and enthusiastic
  • Resourceful and able to think creatively and adapt

What we offer:

  • Large variety of projects, creative freedom and direct access to our user community
  • Potential for travel to our other global offices in London and Geneva
  • Onsite chef with daily lunches provided
  • Modern well-equipped gym

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