3 months ago
Houston, TX, USAStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end development lifecycle for web applications, workflows, automation solutions, and AI-agent solutions.
- Evaluate business problems and select appropriate application, workflow, automation, or AI-agent architectures.
- Design and develop significant or complex enhancements across client, server, and data tiers.
- Investigate and resolve high-severity issues, identify root causes, and implement solutions.
- Collaborate with Business Analysts to translate functional requirements into technical specifications.
- Build and maintain integrations, including AI-agent tools and MCP servers connecting to systems and data.
- Coordinate with IT teams to deploy and scale application instances based on performance and business needs.
- Identify and mitigate technical risks, performance bottlenecks, and system degradation.
- Support commodities trading users and solutions across the full trading cycle.
Requirements
- Solid server-side programming experience in at least two of C#, Python, or Java.
- Extensive experience with React or Angular, JavaScript or TypeScript, and CSS.
- Solid database knowledge and ability to write performant queries across relational and other database systems.
- Experience designing, building, and consuming APIs, with understanding of RESTful architecture and GraphQL.
- Experience with workflow orchestration or automation tooling.
- Fluent daily use of Claude Code and Claude Cowork across the software development lifecycle.
- Practical experience building or extending AI-agent tools and MCP servers.
- Hands-on experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines in GitLab.
- At least 10 years of hands-on full-stack development experience.
- At least 4 years of experience in a technical lead role.
- Experience in commodities trading or related industries.
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
- Familiarity with the oil and crude business specifically is preferred.
- Exposure to commodity trading platforms or CTRM systems is preferred.
- Experience working with distributed or cross-regional engineering teams is preferred.
- AWS exposure is preferred.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, prioritization, adaptability, and attention-to-detail skills.
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About Trafigura
Trafigura is a privately held, employee-owned commodities group that buys, trades, stores, and transports energy products and metals for industrial customers and utilities worldwide. Founded in 1993 and headquartered in Singapore, it operates across more than 150 countries through trading, logistics, and financing businesses. The group also holds industrial and infrastructure interests, including multi-metals producer Nyrstar, fuel supplier Greenergy, and the Impala Terminals joint venture, while investing in lower‑carbon energy projects.