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Quantitative Software Engineer – Commodities

A software engineer with a quant mindset in a small team supporting the commodities trading division of a proprietary firm. You would turn trader and quant ideas into production tools and models.

What you’d work on

Our reading of the posting: what a new hire in this role would most likely spend their first months on.

Build signal-research, backtesting and strategy-monitoring tools for energy traders
Productionise fundamental models such as supply and demand balances and curve or spread models
Create dashboards showing positions, market views and PnL drivers
Build pipelines that ingest and clean market, fundamental and alternative data
Hook models into the firm's event-based pricing and risk platform

What they ask for

Required

Python scientific stack (numpy, pandas, scipy, statsmodels)
Statistics and time-series analysis
Data pipelines and large datasets
SQL, NoSQL or tick databases
Dashboards (Plotly/Dash, Streamlit or Grafana)
Algorithms, OOP and design patterns
Unix and git

Preferred

Machine learning
Java or C++
Kafka, Docker, Airflow or Luigi
Energy markets, futures and swaps knowledge

Education: Bachelor's or above in CS, engineering, maths, statistics, physics or similar
Experience: 2+ years building quantitative trading tools or models in finance or commodities
Languages and tools: Python
SQL
Java
C++
Markets: commodities, futures

How to prepare

Build a futures curve and spread analytics dashboard from public energy data
Write a simple backtesting framework with clean data handling
Learn how supply, demand and inventory data feed energy price models
Set up a small Airflow or similar pipeline storing time-series data

What to study

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SelfMadeQuant wrote this summary from the employer’s public posting, last checked 6 November 2026. SelfMadeQuant isn’t affiliated with DV Trading and doesn’t handle applications.