Senior Software Developer - Trading
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Senior Software Developer - Trading
Location
Houston, TX
Experience
Senior
Posted
Jul 18, 2026
Apply by
August 17, 2026
Applicants
0
Early applicantEasy applyFull-timeWork from Office
Job Description
Programmer
| Summary/Overview |
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| The Programmer will design, build, maintain, and enhance analytics tools, dashboards, and forecasting models that support trading decisions and market analysis. This role is focused on developing systems that bring together real-time market data, news, historical trends, options analytics, and position-level stress testing into practical tools the team can use every day. |
| Responsibilities and Duties: |
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- Develop and maintain dashboards, charts, and analytical tools used to monitor market conditions, trading activity, and exposures
- Build solutions that integrate real-time market data, real-time news, historical trends, and fundamental data into a single user-friendly view
- Create tools that summarize market catalysts, highlight takeaways, and support positioning decisions across out rights, cracks, spreads, and options
- Develop analytics for options and volatility, including vol skew, term structure, historical volatility, and comparisons of implied versus realized volatility
- Build models and interfaces that simulate positions, calculate Greeks, and show how P&L evolves as prices move up or down by defined percentages
- Develop functionality that supports balance-sheet and fundamental market analysis, including crude runs, production, imports, demand, exports, stocks, and comparisons versus five-year seasonal averages
- Create forecasting and scenario tools that display current conditions versus historical ranges and support stress testing of trading ideas and top plays
- Build reporting views that break out P&L and exposures by trade type, strategy, product, and trade-level detail
- Embed documentation, tooltips, glossary content, and user guidance directly within applications to improve usability and adoption
- Partner closely with traders and business users to translate workflows into practical tools, continuously improve existing systems, and support team efficiency
- Minimum of 5 years of relevant programming experience
- Strong experience building analytical tools, dashboards, and data-driven applications
- Advanced experience working with Python, JavaScript, C# and related development frameworks for data visualization or application logic
- Ability to work with real-time and historical data sets, including market, news, and fundamental data sources
- Experience developing trading, risk, forecasting, or other quantitative decision-support tools is strongly preferred
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to explain technical functionality clearly to end users
- Ability to document tools and build intuitive user support features such as glossary references and embedded tips
- Experience supporting trading, commodities, energy, or other market-facing analytical environments
- Familiarity with position analysis, exposure monitoring, scenario modeling, and P&L reporting
- Comfort working in a fast-paced environment where tools are built iteratively in close partnership with business stakeholders
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior developers and analysts
- Assist in prioritizing development initiatives and managing project timelines
- Promote best practices in software development, documentation, testing, and deployment
- Collaborate with business stakeholders to align technology solutions with organizational objectives
- Office Environment
- Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer
- Must be able to lift 15 pounds at times
- Must be able to access and navigate each department at the organization’s facilities
- 10%
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain dashboards, charts, and analytical tools for monitoring market conditions and trading activity.
- Build solutions integrating real-time market data, news, historical trends, and fundamental data.
- Create tools summarizing market catalysts and supporting positioning decisions across various trading strategies.
- Develop analytics for options and volatility, including vol skew and term structure.
- Build models and interfaces to simulate positions, calculate Greeks, and show P&L evolution.
- Develop functionality for balance-sheet and fundamental market analysis.
- Create forecasting and scenario tools for stress testing trading ideas.
- Build reporting views breaking out P&L and exposures by trade type and strategy.
- Embed documentation and user guidance within applications to improve usability.
- Partner with traders and business users to translate workflows into practical tools.
Skills Required
PythonJavaScriptC#Data visualizationReal-time data processingHistorical data analysisProblem-solvingCommunicationDocumentationUser supportTrading decision-support toolsRisk toolsForecasting toolsPosition analysisExposure monitoringScenario modelingP&L reportingAdaptabilityStakeholder management
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