AlexStaff Agency is seeking a Senior Software Developer to engineer trading systems and monitoring tools for Liquid Air Energy Storage plants and grid-stability operations. This is a fully remote role focused on developing automated trading platforms and real-time data processing systems.

What You'll Do

Design and implement automated trading systems for UK energy markets, including day-ahead, intraday, balancing, and ancillary services.
Build real-time bidding, dispatch optimization, and pricing algorithms for LAES assets.
Integrate with grid operators and market platforms.
Develop monitoring dashboards, alerting systems, and operational analytics for plant performance.
Create high-throughput data ingestion and streaming pipelines using Kafka and PostgreSQL or TimescaleDB.
Build microservices and APIs for trading platforms, market integration, and system control.
Collaborate with DevOps and Data teams for deployment, monitoring, and production support.

What We're Looking For

Strong software-engineering fundamentals in architecture, testing, and code quality.
Proficiency in Python or readiness to ramp up quickly within ~3 weeks.
Experience with distributed systems, microservices, and RESTful APIs.
Solid understanding of software design patterns and testing practices.
Hands-on experience with Kafka or similar streaming platforms.
Strong SQL skills with PostgreSQL and time-series data processing.
Familiarity with data-pipeline frameworks and real-time processing.
Experience with Docker and containerized applications.
Understanding of monitoring, logging, and observability practices.
Proficiency in Git and Agile development workflows.

Nice to Have

Rust experience.
Exposure to energy markets, trading systems, or optimization algorithms.
Interest in industrial control systems, IoT, or real-world operational data.
Hands-on experience with agentic AI coding systems like Claude Code, Codex, Open Code, or Cursor.
Proficiency with at least 2 agentic systems.
Ability to design and build software from the ground up using these tools.
Demonstrated experience orchestrating multiple agents using skills, tools, and agent coordination.
Familiarity with hooks, permission systems, MCP servers, custom skills and tool definitions, and context management.

Technical Stack

Python
Rust
Kafka
PostgreSQL
TimescaleDB
Docker
Git

Team & Environment

You will collaborate with DevOps and Data teams in a professional engineering environment.

Benefits & Compensation

Plenty of opportunities for learning and professional growth.
B2B contract with paid vacation.

Work Mode

This is a fully remote position open to global candidates.

We value clear thinkers with strong engineering fundamentals who can reason about distributed systems, data integrity, and real-time control. We prioritize problem-solving ability and software craftsmanship above specific language experience.