Trafigura

Forward Deployed Engineer

Trafigura
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3 months ago
London, United KingdomEntry Level / Mid Level / Senior / Staff+

Responsibilities

  • Partner with business users to understand processes, challenges, and technical requirements.
  • Turn prototypes into secure, scalable, production-ready applications.
  • Build dashboards, applications, APIs, integrations, automated workflows, and AI-powered solutions.
  • Support data pipelines and integrations with the Enterprise Data Platform.
  • Build agentic applications using memory, tools, skills, and evaluation capabilities.
  • Deploy applications with production-grade observability and provide production support.
  • Investigate incidents, identify root causes, improve reliability, and maintain operational documentation.
  • Implement authentication and role-based access using enterprise identity platforms.
  • Collaborate with engineers, architects, product teams, security and platform teams, and business stakeholders.
  • Contribute reusable components, patterns, and engineering best practices to the core AI Platform.

Requirements

  • Proven experience in software engineering and building and deploying production applications.
  • Experience working directly with users or business stakeholders to deliver software solutions.
  • Strong proficiency in Python and full-stack engineering with React or an equivalent modern frontend framework and PostgreSQL.
  • Understanding of database systems, SQL, NoSQL, data modelling, ETL pipelines, gRPC APIs, and microservices architecture.
  • Experience with AWS or another cloud platform, Docker, Kubernetes, GitLab or an equivalent CI/CD platform, and infrastructure-as-code such as Terraform.
  • Working knowledge of OIDC, SAML, and Azure Entra ID for identity and access management.
  • Experience with LLMs, RAG systems, prompt engineering, AI evaluation frameworks, and AI observability or guardrails.
  • Familiarity with MLOps, model deployment, and AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code.
  • Experience with enterprise applications, financial services, commodities, or other complex business environments is helpful but not essential.
  • Additional experience with Go or Java is a plus.
Trafigura

About Trafigura

5,001-10,000 employees

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.

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