Core Trading Platform Engineer - Digital Trading

Be part of an exciting new Digital Trading Team at EnBW Trading, where we are building state-of-the-art platforms and infrastructure to accelerate digital, quantitative, and automated trading across energy markets.

• Design and build core front-to-back trading platform components (OMS, venue/exchange connectivity, market data, messaging, replay & recovery) for EnBW’s power and gas trading.
• Architect and implement distributed, event-driven, high-throughput systems enabling real-time energy trading, electronic risk oversight and automation.
• Develop cloud-native solutions (AWS), including infrastructure-as-code, deployment pipelines, observability and production monitoring for mission-critical trading services.
• Collaborate closely with traders, quantitative developers and platform architects to deliver robust technology for quant, algorithmic and systematic trading across multiple energy markets.
• Contribute to the evolution towards digital trading by integrating AI-assisted development, MCP tooling, and platform reliability engineering in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with strong Java skills, including concurrent and multi-threaded programming in Linux-based environments.
• Proven track record building distributed, event-driven or high-throughput systems, ideally in electronic trading, market infrastructure or other data- and latency-sensitive domains.
• Hands-on experience with messaging, networking and data-intensive applications, plus a solid understanding of replay, recovery and sequencing concepts.
• Familiarity with cloud architectures (preferably AWS), automation and operational tooling, including observability, monitoring and production engineering practices.
• Strong problem-solving and debugging abilities, coupled with a genuine interest in energy trading, renewable-driven markets and the digital transformation of trading platforms.