Jobs · Engineering · Texas

Senior Software Developer - Trading

Atlas Oil Company · Greater Houston · 6 days ago
EngineeringFull-time

Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain dashboards, charts, and analytical tools used to monitor market conditions, trading activity, and exposures
  • Create solutions that integrate real-time market data, real-time news, historical trends, and fundamental data into a single user-friendly view
  • Create tools that summarize market catalysts, highlight takeaways, and support positioning decisions across out rights, cracks, spreads, and options
  • Develop analytics for options and volatility, including vol skew, term structure, historical volatility, and comparisons of implied versus realized volatility
  • Build models and interfaces that simulate positions, calculate Greeks, and show how P&L evolves as prices move up or down by defined percentages
  • Develop functionality that supports balance-sheet and fundamental market analysis, including crude runs, production, imports, demand, exports, stocks, and comparisons versus five-year seasonal averages
  • Create forecasting and scenario tools that display current conditions versus historical ranges and support stress testing of trading ideas and top plays
  • Build reporting views that break out P&L and exposures by trade type, strategy, product, and trade-level detail
  • Embed documentation, tooltips, glossary content, and user guidance directly within applications to improve usability and adoption
  • Partner closely with traders and business users to translate workflows into practical tools, continuously improve existing systems, and support team efficiency

Requirements

  • Minimum of 5 years of relevant programming experience
  • Strong experience building analytical tools, dashboards, and data-driven applications
  • Advanced experience working with Python, JavaScript, C#, and related development frameworks for data visualization or application logic
  • Experience developing trading, risk, forecasting, or other quantitative decision-support tools is strongly preferred
  • Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to explain technical functionality clearly to end users
  • Ability to document tools and build intuitive user support features such as glossary references and embedded tips

Preferred

  • Experience supporting trading, commodities, energy, or other market-facing analytical environments
  • Familiarity with position analysis, exposure monitoring, scenario modeling, and P&L reporting
  • Comfort working in a fast-paced environment where tools are built iteratively in close partnership with business stakeholders

Work Environment

  • Office Environment
  • Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer
  • Must be able to lift 15 pounds at times
  • Must be able to access and navigate each department at the organization’s facilities
  • Travel Required 10%

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