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.