Company Description

Vitol is a leader in energy and commodities. Vitol produces, manages and delivers energy and commodities to consumers and industry worldwide. In addition to its primary business of trading, Vitol is invested in infrastructure globally, with $10+billion invested in long-term assets.

Vitol’s customers include national oil companies, multinationals, leading industrial companies and utilities. Founded in Rotterdam in 1966, today Vitol serves its customers from some 40 offices worldwide. Revenues in 2023 were $400bn.

For more information: vitol.com

Job Description

Are you a passionate, entrepreneurially minded senior full stack developer who wants to build the analytical systems that orchestrate global energy flows? Do you thrive in a flat hierarchy, team-oriented environment that values ideas and individual contributions? Then we are looking for you to join us at Vitol!

As a talented Senior Full Stack Developer, you will help us continue expanding our global analytics platform, fuelled by the rich data generated by our inhouse end-to-end trading system as well as external datasets. We are growing rapidly and are looking for exceptional candidates to help us deliver on our mission. This role will have the opportunity to interface directly with the business, ranging from tank operators to top management to drive our requirements and deliver a wide range of capabilities.

As a member of the analytics team, located in London, UK, you will:

• Work with a distributed team to develop strategic set of analytics applications
• Participate in full development life cycle from definition to design to delivery
• Work directly with end users to drive our requirements and delivery value add features
• Meet short deadlines with focus on quality and performance
• Collaboration with global team including participation in daily scrum meetings, peer reviews and design sessions
• Deliver testable and maintainable code for globally distributed systems

Qualifications

• University degree (Bachelor or Master) in Computer Science, MIS, or an equivalent field
• 4-7 years’ experience working with C# and related .NET technologies within global enterprise solutions, preferably with experience using ASP.NET Core and WebAPIs
• 3+ years in front end development preferably web (React)
• Excellent user interface building skills, perfectionist approach to styling/CSS
• Passion for creating the best user experience
• Strong proficiency using modular JavaScript, async patterns, and DOM manipulation
• Awareness of continuous integration and delivery concepts/technologies
• Experience with RDBMS and SQL (Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL)
• Ability to interact with stakeholders to progress design and satisfy requests
• Takes great pride in the finished project, with a keen eye for detail
• Experience working in an agile scrum development model
• Proactive and user-focused, with a can-do attitude and a genuine interest in the functional as well as technical aspects of each challenge encountered
• Self-motivated with the ability to prioritize, meet deadlines and manage changing priorities
• Strong communication skills (written and verbal).

Additional Qualifications that will help you stand out

• Experience in GraphQL or gRPC is a plus
• Experience in Reactive Extensions (RX) preferred
• Experience in Kafka / messaging architectures preferred
• Previous experience in the commodities and/or trading industry