Software Engineer

Employment Type: Contract Location: This position is based in Houston, Texas, on-site 5 days each week. Position Description: We are seeking a Software Engineer who blends solution architecture with a product mindset. This is someone who can lead client workstreams, shape practical architectures, and help build market facing assets that grow pipeline and credibility in Houston. This role is ideal for a high agency consultant who enjoys client facing delivery and practice building, including thought leadership, events, offerings, and proposals. Role summary Hands on software engineering role for the Deal Entry Portal, supporting timely capture of exchange trades into Enterprise Risk Management / ETRM systems and reducing manual trade entry delays. Project / business context Project: Deal Entry Portal (DEP). The client, a global energy company, trades across multiple exchanges. The portal supports timely entry of trades into ETRM systems so P&L and management information are more current and less dependent on manual entry.

Requirements Key responsibilities Design and develop within defined projects/workstreams and work independently to outcomes. Build Python APIs using object oriented programming. Design distributed asynchronous systems that avoid data conflicts and operate across orchestrated environments. Collaborate with functional developers to define, develop, test and release features. Provide workarounds and bug fixes for urgent production issues and support CI/CD practices. Mentor junior staff and advise on functional/technical application issues. Key skills / experience Python OOP and API development. SQL and Oracle database technologies. Docker, Kafka, Kubernetes, Azure/AWS, GitHub and/or message broker technologies. Strong coding, testing, automation and problem solving. Distributed asynchronous systems and DevOps/CI/CD.