Additionalinformation

Additional Information

Companydescription

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

Jobdescription

Job Description

The Software Engineer will contribute to the maintenance, improvement and support of internal applications, tools and deployment processes used across Vitol’s trading technology landscape.

This role is focused on improving application deployment, developer tooling, automation and operational reliability. The successful candidate will work closely with software engineers, architects and support teams to ensure robust delivery processes, high-quality releases and efficient development workflows.

The position offers exposure to a broad range of technologies and business-critical applications in a global trading environment.

• Maintain and improve internal application installation and deployment tools used across trading technology platforms.

• Support and enhance reporting components, including spreadsheet-based and service-based reporting tools.

• Maintain and improve internal communication and messaging tools used by business applications.

• Support batch-processing components and background services used by core trading systems.

• Contribute to the reliability and performance of tools supporting reporting, data exchange, processing workflows and application integration.

• Maintain, improve and support deployment processes for commercial and internally developed applications.

• Maintain and improve developer tools and development environments, integrating AI technology.

• Support and enhance CI/CD and software quality tooling, including tools such as Jenkins, Git, Bitbucket and SonarQube.

• Maintain and improve developer tools and development environments.

• Support documentation, workflow and collaboration tools such as Jira and Confluence.

• Participate in application installation and release preparation processes.

• Improve integration between development tools and automate recurring tasks.

• Contribute to the development and adoption of unit testing frameworks and quality practices.

• Identify opportunities to improve developer productivity, reduce manual effort and increase release reliability.

• Work collaboratively across different teams, domains and technology topics.

Qualifications

• 2 to 5 years of experience in a software development, application engineering, DevOps, release management or architecture team.

• Strong programming skills in .NET / C#.

• Familiarity with standard software development and deployment tools, such as:

• Jenkins
• Git or Bitbucket
• SonarQube
• Visual Studio Code

• Knowledge of PL/SQL and database development tools would be an advantage.

• Experience with application deployment, automation, CI/CD pipelines or developer tooling is beneficial.

• Understanding of batch processing, reporting tools, APIs or background services would be a plus.

• Strong problem-solving skills and a pragmatic approach to delivery.

• Experience with, or strong interest in, AI-enabled development tools and their practical application to software delivery, automation, testing and documentation.

• Interest in automation and continuous improvement.

• Ability to work on several topics in parallel across different teams and domains.

• Collaborative mindset and willingness to support and enable other developers.

• Good communication skills in English.