Senior Algo Developer (all genders)

e*star provides trading solutions for the European energy markets and has more than 15 years of experience in this field. The European energy sector is currently undergoing a historic transformation due to the energy transition and digitalization. As experts in this field, e*star is working on shaping and developing the European energy market of the future - together with our customers.

• Shape our next modern energy trading platform based on state-of-the art technologies, building low latency services in the cloud
• Dive deep into the field of energy trading and help translate business needs into product solutions
• Autonomy and responsibility for the analysis, design and implementation of our energy trading solutions
• Ensuring the quality of our software solutions through code reviews and test automation
• Constant learning and the opportunity to share new technologies and techniques
• Drive the continuous improvement of development practices in the team

Must-haves

• Right to work in your country of residence
• A degree in computer science or comparable experience
• Good command of both written and spoken English – comparable to English level B2 or higher
• Experience in following technologies
• Golang: good understanding of concurrency, usage of go routines and channels
• Hands-on experience with the Golang profiler and benchmark tests
• Docker / Rancher and Git are used everyday
• PostgreSQL and SQlite
• Practical experience developing highly asynchronous and distributed systems
• A strong focus on the quality of the results, maintaining good test coverage.

Nice-to-haves

• Work or project experience in an additional language such as JAVA or Python
• Experience in golang cpu and emory optimization and garbage collection
• Experience in tools such as: Mockgen, go migrate, go generate, magefiles, protoc for grpc implementations
• Integrating monitoring and visualization tools, such as Prometheus and Grafana
• Electronic trading domain knowledge, especially in energy trading
• Practical experience with containers, kubernetes and AWS
• Occasionally we like to participate in coding challenges, such as codingame, advent of code, hackerrank and leetcode

• Enjoy a professional environment within a relaxed, friendly corporate culture
• Mobile working? Night owl or early bird? A classic consultant lifestyle with 5 days on site is not for you? With us you will find enough space for an optimal work-life balance
• Stay healthy – our company supports you with a fixed health budget for individual services

We are a home for tech enthusiasts and doers. Origin, age, preferences - it doesn't matter to us. What counts is that we burn for the common cause.

We are already looking forward to getting to know you!