Location: Houston (Hybrid - at least 3 days onsite/week)
Visa Sponsorship: We offer sponsorship under specific treaty-based U.S. work visas, including TN and E-2 (for eligible Canadian, Mexican, and French citizens). We do not support or transfer other visa types (e.g., H-1B).
Talan is looking for a Senior Software Engineer - AWS / Python to support a key client in the energy trading industry.
The role focuses on designing, developing, deploying, and supporting secure, scalable cloud applications and data services supporting pre-trade, market data, pricing, and analytics. AWS is the primary cloud platform and Python the main development language.
Key Responsibilities
- Build and support cloud-native applications, APIs, microservices, and event-driven solutions on AWS.
- Develop backend services and automation in Python.
- Design services handling market data, pricing, analytics, and pre-trade workflows.
- Implement infrastructure as code using Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation.
- Build and maintain CI/CD, automated testing, monitoring, and observability.
- Apply cloud security and secure software-development best practices.
- Optimize application performance, reliability, scalability, and AWS costs.
- Lead technical discussions, code reviews, and architecture reviews.
- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers.
Qualifications
- 10+ years of strong hands on, backend OOP development experience in event-driven and distributed backend services
- 5+ years of developing complex Python applications involving high volume data processing, designing and developing APIs, microservices, and event-driven architectures
- 5+ years of experience deploying Python application in AWS cloud environment (i.e. Kafka, Redis/ElastiCache, RDS/Aurora/S3)
- Bachelor degree in Computer science, Engineering, Finance or Quantitative finance
Nice to Have
- Experience in energy trading, commodities, market data, pricing, or financial markets
- Microsoft Azure experience
- Athena, or Redshift
- C#/.NET or React or Angular
- AWS or Azure certifications
Company's Benefits
At Talan, we invest in our employees' well-being and empower them with benefits, including:
- 💸401(k) retirement plan with company matching
- 🌴15 days of paid vacation per year at hire and up to 27 according to seniority (annual untaken vacation days are cashed out)
- 📴8 paid holidays + 5 sick days + 2 personal days per year
- ❤🩹Company health, dental, and vision insurance plans + FSA
- 🦺Voluntary STD and LTD
- 🚍 Commuter/transit benefits
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