Quantitative Developer Commodities - Germany

About the Role

Our client, a leading Hedge Fund, is seeking a Quantitative Developer to join their growing energy trading technology team. This role sits close to front-office users and focuses on building and enhancing platforms that support pricing, valuation, risk management, trade lifecycle, and position management for commodity and energy derivatives.

The successful candidate will play a key role in integrating trading workflows into a wider enterprise platform landscape while helping to extend capabilities for complex OTC trading activities.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain platforms supporting commodity and energy derivatives trading.
• Develop pricing, valuation, and risk management infrastructure used by front-office stakeholders.
• Enhance trade capture, booking, and lifecycle management workflows for OTC products.
• Partner closely with traders, quants, and risk teams to support complex discretionary trading strategies.
• Improve scalability, reliability, and performance of trading and risk systems.

Required Skills & Experience

• 3+ years of experience in quantitative development, platform engineering, or trading technology.
• Hands-on software engineering experience in trading, risk, valuation, or position management systems:
• Experience building or supporting: Energy or commodity derivatives pricing systems, or risk and valuation platforms, or OTC trade capture, booking, or ETRM platforms.

Nice to Have

• Experience in power or energy markets, particularly European or German power markets.
• Exposure to renewable energy trading or related infrastructure.
• Background working at leading financial institutions or investment banks.

Working Environment

• Based in Hamburg with a strong onsite presence alongside traders and analysts.
• Highly collaborative, desk-focused role with direct exposure to trading activity.
• Opportunity to help establish and shape a new engineering capability within the region.

Why Join

• Play a key role in integrating and scaling a specialist energy trading platform within a global hedge fund.
• Work directly with front-office teams on high-impact trading systems.
• Join a lean, newly formed team with significant ownership and influence.
• Tackle complex challenges across energy markets, derivatives, and system integration.
• Be part of a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment with strong growth ambitions.

We welcome applications from international candidates. Our client offers comprehensive relocation support to Germany to help ensure a smooth transition.