TECH LEAD - Dubai, UAE

Employment Type: Full-time & Permanent

Salary: USD 100,000 - 140,000 per annum in a zero-tax environment (plus annual performance-based bonuses)

Job Location: Dubai, UAE (We provide visa sponsorship & relocation assistance)

About Cobblestone Energy

Cobblestone Energy is an energy trading company specialising in the European Gas and Power markets. Established in 2017, we are shaping the future of global commodity trading with a focus on deep analytics and technological innovation. Our success is driven by our people, whom we back with real responsibility from the start. At Cobblestone Energy, excellence is valued and extraordinary talent from around the world is welcomed. Our flat organisational structure encourages a culture of innovation, granting team members autonomy and ownership of their work.

Cobblestone Values

• Lifelong learning with continuous reflection
• Independent thinking through a meritocracy of ideas
• The team is more important than the individual.
• Being the best in any market we enter
• Hiring and keeping only the most effective people
• Others must benefit from our existence.

Job Description

At Cobblestone Energy we are on a mission to build the most advanced European power and gas trading and analytics platform, with our technology being used by our teams of commercial traders to create significant value. Being a Tech Lead in our team, you will lead our team's work on the exciting challenges that come with large-scale data processing, automation, and analytics. We work in an agile and highly collaborative environment and challenge the norms of traditional business leadership. We are looking for enthusiastic and experienced individuals who are able to lead tech projects and own the development of the team as a whole.

This is a rare opportunity to take a leading role in the growth of a major player in the European Power and Gas Markets. We are looking for someone who would be committed to the long-term success of the business. We operate in the European Power and Gas markets & expanding into more Markets, but our commercial trading operations are in Dubai, UAE.

If you have excellent programming skills, a passion for developing/improving applications utilising cutting edge technologies, and strong leadership skills, then we would like to meet you.

What we offer in this role

• A full-time position on our Tech team
• Committed and remarkably talented colleagues
• Highly competitive compensation dependent on performance
• An exciting, challenging and fulfilling career
• An opportunity to work on new things from scratch and make independent decisions
• Investment in your development to ensure that you always remain the best in business
• Equity participation for strong contributors, ensuring our interests are all aligned long term.

Responsibilities

• Take full ownership of all project stages from business requirements gathering to product delivery
• Responsible for end-to-end planning of the project including resources, sprints, milestones, timeline, and deadlines
• Take the initiative to report and resolve any bottlenecks or issues related to the projects & members they are managing autonomously
• Substantial contribution in design & architecture of our apps ensuring the design is scalable, optimized and HA.
• Own and shape our best practices & processes and improve/optimize them to ensure they are up to standards
• Own the technical implementation of the project they are handling and ensure it's robust and optimized.
• Mentor & Coach Junior team members and their project colleagues.

Requirements

• BS degree in Computer Engineering/Computer Science/Electrical Engineering. Masters is a plus
• 4+ years of work experience in Python (Java work experience is a plus)
• 2+ years of work experience leading other developers.
• 1+ years of experience developing API services
• Work experience in Cloud resources/ services (AWS is a plus)
• Work experience in non-relational databases
• Strong design & coding skills with proven competency in architecture, data structures, and algorithms
• Strong work experience in Relational Databases including PostgreSQL.

Desirable Skills/Experience

• Experience in Algo trading and Automated trading is a big plus.
• Processing, storing, and managing Real-time data of large volume is a big plus
• Strong knowledge in DevOps, CI/CD, Docker containers
• Experience managing multiple projects at the same time