[Hiring] Senior Algorithm Development Expert @enspired GmbH

Role Description

We are looking for a passionate Senior Algorithm Development Expert (m/f/x) who wants to help build the most innovative energy trading platform on the planet.

As part of our Asset Optimization Community within Trading Technology, you will:

• Design, build and improve automated trading algorithms that optimize customers’ grid-scale batteries and other flexible renewable energy assets.
• Turn complex quantitative, market and operational challenges into reliable, production-grade optimization solutions that create measurable value in live trading.
• Take technical ownership of substantial algorithmic work, ensuring quality and reliable operation through rigorous analysis, reproducible evaluations, and well-tested production software.
• Investigate unexpected behaviour, turn operational learnings into lasting improvements, and help make solutions more reusable across assets and markets.
• Contribute to sound technical decisions, share expertise, and help other engineers grow, without taking on line-management responsibilities.

Note: We can only consider candidates based in Austria, Belgium, Netherlands, Slovakia, Spain, and the UK (or open to relocation to one of these countries, provided the candidate holds the right to work).

Qualifications

• Experience developing algorithms in a compiled programming language such as Go, Rust, C++, Java, C# or similar.
• Substantial hands-on experience in designing, building and maintaining production algorithms, optimization software or comparable quantitative decision systems.
• Strong quantitative problem-solving and numerical reasoning skills, supported by a background in computer science, mathematics, physics, engineering or a related field.
• Practical data analysis skills and experience using historical and production data to develop, validate and improve algorithms, with an understanding of data quality and model limitations.
• Experience with, or eager to adopt, agentic AI approaches that enhance software development while maintaining high engineering standards.
• Ability to reason about operational constraints, work effectively across disciplines and communicate complex technical decisions clearly in English.
• Balance algorithmic sophistication with reliability, maintainability and practical delivery value.
• Take ownership of complex technical problems, communicate risks and uncertainty openly, and share knowledge generously.

Requirements

• Design, implement and improve asset-backed optimization and trading algorithms, accounting for market rules, physical asset constraints and agreed trading risk controls.
• Translate complex optimization problems into clear design choices and maintainable production code, challenging assumptions and proposing practical enhancements to existing strategies.
• Work closely with the Optimization Product Owner and Team Lead to clarify requirements, define expected outcomes and acceptance criteria, and evaluate technical options, estimates and trade-offs.
• Develop rigorous backtests, simulations and controlled experiments to evaluate algorithm performance across realistic scenarios, data limitations and edge cases.
• Analyse live trading behaviour, data quality and performance drivers to identify weaknesses and deliver evidence-based algorithm improvements.
• Build diagnostics, observability and safe operating behaviour into algorithms, collaborating with Trading Operations to investigate production issues and implement lasting solutions.
• Take ownership of technical quality through code reviews, automated testing, safe releases and maintainable, reusable designs across assets and markets.
• Use AI-assisted and agentic development tools to accelerate prototyping, coding, testing and analysis, applying sound technical judgement and appropriate engineering safeguards.
• Share knowledge and support colleagues through technical reviews, pairing and collaborative problem-solving, ensuring important design decisions and specialist expertise are documented.
• Contribute to prioritised discovery, pilots, backtesting and new-market enablement, working with Platform/Integration Engineering and other teams.

Benefits

• 60 days of work from anywhere.
• 30 days of vacation.
• A modern tech stack with the freedom to innovate.
• Referral bonus.
• Extensive support of lifelong learners.
• Regular social events and holiday parties.
• Free public transportation ticket in Vienna.
• Free lunch & fruits and fair-trade coffee at the office.
• Offsetting your private CO2 emissions.
• Sustainable enspired merch.
• An attractive salary of at least EUR 90.000 gross annually that corresponds to your skills.