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Developer I, Commercial Trading Technologies

Pilot Company·Houston, us
Full-timejunior

About this role

The purpose of this job is to serve as a technical contributor within the Energy Technology space, designing, developing, supporting, and enhancing commodity trading and risk management platforms as well as retail pricing applications operating in both on-premise and cloud implementations. This role partners closely with senior developers and team members to deliver reliable, scalable, and secure technology solutions that support commercial trading operations.

• Develop, test, deploy, and support low-complexity enhancements for commercial trading, risk management, credit, and retail pricing applications. • Serve as a technical contributor on low-complexity projects and defined workstreams, providing technical analysis, design input, and implementation support. • Translate low-complexity business requirements into technical specifications, development tasks, integrations, and design input within assigned scope. • Partner with business stakeholders, product owners, scrum masters, functional analysts, infrastructure, security, and other technology teams to deliver reliable solutions within assigned scope. • Perform production support activities, including troubleshooting production incidents, participating in deployments, and occasional after-hours support as needed with guidance. • Contribute to modernization efforts, including cloud adoption, automation, DevOps processes, CI/CD pipelines, and platform reliability improvements within assigned scope. • Follow development standards, reusable patterns, documentation, automated testing, peer reviews, and secure coding practices. • Support vendor-delivered solutions by aiding implementation and providing long-term production support within a defined scope. • Model behaviors that support the company’s common purpose and ensure guests and team members are supported at the highest level. • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related scientific or technical discipline required; or demonstrated technical proficiency may be substituted for education requirements. • 1+ years of experience developing, supporting, or integrating enterprise applications. • 1+ years of experience supporting commodity/energy trading, retail pricing, or related commercial applications. • 1+ years of experience contributing to technical projects, delivery priorities, or production support activities. • Basic ability to analyze business processes and translate business needs into technical requirements, designs, and system changes. • Basic understanding of incident management, change management, release management, service requests, and production support practices. • Foundational proficiency in one or more development technologies such as .NET/C#, Java, AngularJS/Angular, SQL, APIs, or integration frameworks required. • Foundational proficiency with relational databases required; Microsoft SQL Server preferred. • Foundational proficiency with AWS, Terraform, Jenkins, DB Maestro, ActiveBatch, or similar cloud, source control systems DevOps, release management, and automation tools preferred. • Foundational proficiency with Agile/Scrum delivery practices preferred. • Foundational understanding of commodities trading, front/middle/back-office processes, and experience supporting business environments requiring rapid context switching and demanding timelines strongly preferred. • Foundational proficiency in building, enhancing, integrating, and supporting CTRM/ETRM systems such as RightAngle, Endur, Allegro, or similar platforms strongly preferred. • Basic ability to assess system impact across small- and large-scale changes preferred. • Basic ability to balance project delivery, production support, technical debt, and operational priorities required. • Problem-solving and root cause analysis skills. • Commitment to secure, reliable, maintainable, and well-documented solutions. • Ability to own assigned technical work and drive it to completion with guidance from more senior developers. • Strong written and verbal communication skills. • Ability to set priorities, multitask, meet deadlines, and resolve problems with a high sense of urgency. • Ability to share knowledge with peers through documentation, troubleshooting support, and informal guidance. • Fluency in spoken and written English required. • Nation-wide Medical Plan/Dental/Vision • 401(k) and Flexible Spending Accounts • Employee Fuel Discount • Adoption Assistance • Tuition Reimbursement • Weekly Pay • Travel less than 5% • All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines • This position requires candidates to be legally authorized to work in the United States without employer sponsorship