Student Python Developer hos Copenhagen Energy Trading

Here is your chance to join Copenhagen Energy Trading’s journey on scaling power trading activities across Europe.

The job
We are looking for a talented Python software developer to help build and maintain the Python-based software that underpins our data and analytics ecosystem. You should be interested in developing Python code that runs data pipelines and data visualization interfaces, but also feel motivated by getting ad-hoc tasks that, for instance, could involve exploring new technology or practices to incorporate into our work.

This is a unique opportunity to strengthen your Python and data engineering skills, and gain working experience with developing production-ready software for energy trading solutions. You will experience that your contribution will have immediate impact on how we break down the complexity of energy markets and optimize operational decision making. As we are scaling quickly, you should expect to get a lot of independence and responsibility from the beginning and learn at high speed.

You’ll join a highly skilled international team of developers, analysts, data scientists and power traders who thrive in an exciting work environment and has a very informal and learning-based culture.

The working location will be at our new offices in the district of Carlsberg City in central Copenhagen.

We offer

• A student position (15-20 hours per week) with flexible working hours
• Professional, experienced, and highly ambitious colleagues who set the bar high. There is a strong focus on mentoring from senior staff
• A great opportunity to join a young and growing company with a true start-up feeling
• An office in the historical and restored ‘Grey House’ near the elephants in the Carlsberg District in Copenhagen
• Several social and professional events such as sports and parties
• A competitive salary

Your opportunities

• Learn best practices for developing and testing software in Python. We are a Python house
• Get exposure to how one containerizes code with Docker and run it in production on Kubernetes
• Learn how to design and develop production-ready, scalable data pipelines to support business processes
• Design and build dashboards that visualize data in simple and intuitive ways
• Conduct various ad hoc analyses to assist in decision making processes 

Your qualifications

• A current student in a master or bachelor program with a strong technological basis, e.g., Computer Science, Physics, Mathematics, or other relevant fields
• Full professional proficiency in English – both written and verbal
• Strong programming skills in Python is a requirement. Experience with other programming languages such as Go, Rust, .Net is an advantage but not a requirement
• Experience with object-oriented programming, unit testing and Python data packages (e.g., Pandas and Requests)
• Experience with Git
• Knowledge of Docker and SQL
• An interest in learning about electricity markets
• Big plus if have some experience with Postgres databases, Cloud or Kubernetes

About Copenhagen Energy Trading
Copenhagen Energy Trading A/S was founded in 2021 and is part of Copenhagen Energy Group.

We specialize in short-term proprietary wholesale power trading in Europe. We deploy in-house developed discretionary trading strategies as well as system-based trading strategies with the use of advanced analytics. Via these strategies, vast market understanding, experience, and data science, we move power to where it’s needed the most.

Next steps
All applicants are welcome. At Copenhagen Energy Trading we believe that diversity, equality, and inclusion are fundamental in the creation of an inspirational workplace that enables us to be innovative and creative. For more information you are welcome to contact Chief IT Architect Jens Christian Johannsen on jcj@copenhagen-energy.com

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