Alex Staff Agency

Senior Software Developer

Alex Staff Agency

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

Distributed SystemsIoTKafkaMicroservicesPostgresPythonRustSQL

About the role

  • About the company and the project:
  • An international company, a leader in developing large-scale energy storage and grid-stability technologies, is in search of a highly skilled and experienced** Senior Software Developer** to be a part of its core team.****The company has been operating **since 2006** and is currently expanding its portfolio of commercial power plants. The successful candidate will contribute to **the fastest-growing direction**, integrating advanced software with physical energy infrastructure.**The company has offices in **London, Dubai, and India**.****This is a **fully remote position**, allowing you to work from anywhere in the world and manage your own schedule.
  • Your tasks on the position:
  • - Designing and implementing automated trading systems for UK energy markets
  • - Building real-time bidding, dispatch optimization, and pricing algorithms for LAES assets
  • - Developing monitoring dashboards, alerting systems, and operational analytics for plant performance
  • - Building monitoring dashboards for LAES and stability island operations
  • - Creating high-throughput data ingestion and streaming pipelines using Kafka and PostgreSQL / TimescaleDB
  • - Working with data pipelines using Kafka and PostgreSQL
  • - Building microservices and APIs for trading platforms, market integration, and system control
  • - Developing microservices connecting trading platforms and grid operators

Requirements

  • - 5+ years of software development experience
  • - 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
  • - Proficiency in Git and Agile development workflows
  • - English B2+
  • Will be an advantage:
  • - Rust experience
  • - Exposure to energy markets, trading systems, or optimization algorithms
  • - Interest in industrial control systems, IoT, or real-world operational data
Benefits
  • - Competitive salary according to your experience and skills
  • - Paid vacation
  • - Plenty of opportunities for learning and professional growth
  • - Starting next year, everyone will be issued Macs with tracking software
  • - B2b contract or official employment for the candidates based in the United Kingdom

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Hard skills
Pythondistributed systemsmicroservicesRESTful APIssoftware design patternstesting practicesKafkaPostgreSQLSQLAgile development
Soft skills
communicationproblem-solvingteam collaborationtime management