Ready to dive deep into code and significantly shape the technical landscape of our energy trading team? Our Trading IT team is seeking a Senior Python Software Engineer to build, optimize, and evolve critical applications. If you're a seasoned expert in high-performance Python, cloud solutions, and you love solving complex problems with code, this role offers direct impact as well as technical leadership.
What you'll do- Develop: design, develop, and deploy complex, high-performance Python applications for energy trading.
- Technical authority: hold a strong voice in technical design and implementation decisions, ensuring system scalability, reliability, and efficiency.
- Performance obsession: expertly optimize systems, with deep expertise in IO-bound operations and advanced asynchronous patterns, leveraging structured concurrency.
- Cloud leadership: implement and guide our AWS solutions using Infrastructure as Code, ideally with AWS CDK.
- Full lifecycle ownership: work autonomously with business stakeholders to define requirements, refine specifications, and independently drive the development and delivery of solutions from concept to production.
- Mentorship & best practices: champion engineering best practices and provide technical guidance to the team, fostering a culture of high-quality code and continuous improvement.
- Strategic impact: translate complex business needs and market insights into sophisticated technical solutions through hands-on coding.
- A Python expert: extensive professional experience - 5+ years - in Python, including advanced features, performance tuning, and designing robust systems.
- Asynchronous authority: deep expertise in structured concurrency Python and practical experience with its application in production systems.
- AWS acumen: proven experience in building and deploying solutions on AWS, coupled with strong Infrastructure as Code experience (ideally AWS CDK).
- An optimization master: an exceptional understanding of system and database performance optimization, with a focus on efficient access patterns and data structure design.
- A product mindset: a demonstrated ability to engage directly with business users, elicit requirements, propose solutions, and independently manage the delivery of impactful features.
- CI/CD & Git Guru: proficient with Git and extensive experience building and maintaining robust CI/CD pipelines.
- Hands-on mentorship: demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives through coding, mentor engineers, and drive the adoption of engineering best practices.
- Impact driven: proactive, adaptable, and takes ownership in a dynamic environment where your code directly impacts trading profitability.
- Energy interest: a strong interest in the energy markets and a desire to deepen your business domain understanding.
- Languages: proficiency in English, Dutch is a plus but not required
You will join a team of dynamic and young professionals, passionate about the integration of renewable energy flows into the energy markets YUSO is active in. This job opening includes remote work and/or working from the YUSO offices in Waregem, Belgium. Our office space is one of the best equipped working environments for energy market activities, offering a multitude of multimedia to connect with other colleagues remotely. As a company, YUSO focuses on the well-being of its employees and the team-spirit as a whole!
Our remuneration is market competitive and offers extra benefits like health- and group insurance, meal vouchers, IT-equipment supporting remote work, home-office compensation and a mobile plan. It also includes a variable part linked to the performance of the team.
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What We Do
Yuso is an energy supplier with a strong affinity for Renewable Energy Sources (RES). To enable seamless integration of RES into the existing grid, Yuso builds solutions that stabilize the grid in case of imbalance. From Battery Energy Storage Systems to energy communities, Yuso develops the technology needed to shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources. Yuso steers batteries and other utilities for behind-the-meter optimization and for grid supporting services. Yuso offers its expertise to customers for financial analysis of their business case and optimization of project revenue streams.
