Software Engineer

Location: Victoria, London

Start Date: As soon as possible

Salary: Competitive salary, plus benefits package and discretionary bonus scheme

About Javelin

Javelin Global Commodities is a leading global commodities marketing, trading, logistics services and investment firm with offices in London, New York, San Diego, St Louis, Switzerland, India, Australia, Singapore, Canada and Poland. Javelin was founded in 2015 and now operates across 100 countries and six continents with respect to more than 20 different commodities across thermal coal, metallurgical coal, iron ore, steel scrap, metals, hydrocarbons, freight, softs, and renewables.

Established in 2015, Javelin employs over 180 people and is a unique place to grow your career. We take pride in our values, global reach, meritocratic culture and strong work ethic. Our success over the years has been built on our guiding principles of customer service, creativity, transparency, integrity, and responsibility.

Whilst our footprint grows, we still foster a small-company atmosphere. We have a flat company structure and encourage collaboration across all seniority levels, teams and locations to generate the best ideas. Javelin has a dedicated strategy to support local and meaningful charities through volunteer days, donation matching, a ‘give as you earn’ scheme and other fundraising activities. We are committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues and organise various social evenings, sports clubs and lunchtime activities. Our London office has on-site gym facilities and a golf/sports simulator. Discover more at [http://www.javelincommodities.com/>.

The Role

The Software Engineering team is a central part of Javelin that delivers and maintains the trading and risk management software systems. The role is like a Front Office Developer role at an investment bank or hedge fund. The team’s mandate also extends to the various logistical, financing and operational activities relating to our businesses.

The role will be based in London, and you will have the opportunity to work with colleagues from across the globe and be involved in the development of new business opportunities.

Key Responsibilities Include:

• Design, develop, test, and deploy software applications and systems that facilitate commodities trading activities, including risk management, and market data processing.
• Write clean, scalable, and maintainable code (primarily Python 3)
• Work closely with traders and quantitative analysts to understand trading strategies and requirements.
• Ensure data integrity, performance optimization, and efficient data retrieval for analytics and reporting.
• Comfortable in leading projects, tracking progress, and ensuring timely delivery.
• Provide in person support for the London Trading, Sales and Logistics teams.

Requirements

We believe in hiring diverse candidates with a passion for working in a flexible and closely knit company. We are a small team with a wide range of expertise and will provide immersive on-the-job training in both software development and the business.

• 3+ years of commercial back end or full-stack development in any language.
• Software development experience in a commodity trading firm, oil and gas major, shipping and logistics firm, investment bank, investment management firm, fintech, or other relevant firm involving trading and/or supply chain management.
• Knowledge of physical commodity products and their trade lifecycle, not limited to coal, base metals, oil, gas and emissions, will be helpful.
• Software development experience in Python will be helpful.

Benefits

• Annual discretionary bonus
• 25 days holiday
• Company pension scheme (10% company contribution)
• Private medical scheme with a range of additional wellbeing benefits
• Travel insurance
• Income protection
• Life assurance (5x salary)
• Nursery Scheme
• Bike2Work scheme including secure onsite storage and showers
• Season ticket loan
• Onsite top of the range gym
• Social environment with an onsite breakout area with a golf simulator, darts board, foosball table.