Python Full Stack Commercial Operations Desk Developer

This unique role places you directly within our commercial operations desk sitting and working closely with the team. You will be given the opportunity to work with non-technical experts and develop innovative analytical solutions and full-stack applications. The role will offer you an opportunity to impact both commercial and operational decisions far more than a traditional developer role does. You will be heavily involved in helping transform team’s existing workflows and transform the business developed analytics landscape. Your ability to quickly understand user requirements, communicate effectively, and work independently will be crucial in driving modern automation solutions within the team and optimizing existing processes.

The Desk Developer role, located in Geneva, Switzerland, characterizes itself by:

• Enhancing Automation: Modernizing the automation landscape within the team by migrating existing excel based workflows into Python
• Rapid Prototyping: Sitting directly with the operations/commercial teams to build and support market-focused analytical tools and support applications, rapidly iterating on user feedback, turning it into actionable projects and analytical tools for the desk
• Project Management: Analyse ongoing business and user requirements and independently manage various project lifecycles from end-to-end
• Innovation: Suggest innovative and reliable technical solutions to the business, enhancing existing processes or identifying new opportunities
• Team Upskilling: Help upskill the desk on Python development when possible and ensure mission-critical scripts are adequately productionized.
• Platform Expertise and Integration: Develop a deep understanding of Vitol's MIS platforms and tools, becoming the go-to expert for their functionalities and capabilities on the desk
• Process Optimization: Collaborate with IT and business teams to continuously improve and optimize MIS processes, ensuring that tools are aligned with the evolving needs of the business and establishing robust feedback mechanisms to drive the utilisation of already existing tools on the MIS platform

Requirements

• Relevant university degree
• 2+ years of full stack Python development
• Experience with Python libraries including Fast API, Plotly Dash, Streamlit, SQLModel
• Experience in working with relational SQL databases (i.e. PostgreSQL)
• Passion for developing in Python and a driven desire to engage with our Python community, stay up to date with changes in the Python landscape, and develop on the forefront of this exciting and fast-paced programming language
• Additional experience in front-end application development using JavaScript React and Typescript frameworks is a strong plus