Senior Python Engineer - Pre-trade (Gas & Power Industry)

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.

- 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

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.