Development Manager

Description:

👨‍💻 Development Manager | ⚡ Commodities & Energy Trading | 💻 C# .NET / Greenfield Build | 💷 Up to £150,000 + Bonus | 🏠 Hybrid (London)

A leading trading firm in the commodities and energy markets is hiring for a Development Manager to lead a newly formed engineering team, focused on building greenfield platforms to support complex energy trading workflows across power, gas, emissions, and other asset classes.

This is a high-impact leadership role—ideal for someone with strong technical roots, proven delivery experience, and a deep understanding of the energy trading lifecycle.

🧠 What You'll Be Doing

Your main focus will be a greenfield technology platform built to support the complexities of physical and financial commodities trading, including structured products, cross-border flows, and volatile market conditions.

You’ll take full ownership of architecture, delivery, and stakeholder alignment, working closely with Front Office, Risk, and Product teams to ensure the platform delivers scalable, mission-critical capabilities.

There’s also scope to lead the build of a next-generation trading platform—developed in collaboration with Quants and commercial teams—designed to handle real-time position management, pricing, and decision-support tooling.

👥 Team Scope

🔹 You’ll lead a cross-functional engineering team of ~12 developers

🔹 Core stack: C# .NET (plus React / Node.js on the front end)

🔹 Oversight of tactical Python development and data integration

🔹 Strong emphasis on technical architecture, modern engineering practices, and internal tooling strategy

🔹 This is a technical leadership role (not hands-on coding) but requires deep technical fluency

✅ What We’re Looking For

🔹 Proven experience delivering technology solutions within commodities and energy trading environments—across power, gas, emissions, LNG, or similar

🔹 Strong background in software engineering, ideally in C# .NET and modern enterprise platforms

🔹 Deep understanding of energy trading workflows, pricing flows, and market structure

🔹 Leadership experience—line management, agile delivery oversight, mentoring, and stakeholder engagement

🔹 Clear and confident communicator—able to interface with Quants, Front Office, and senior tech leadership

💰 Remuneration & Benefits

💸 Base salary up to £130,000

🎯 Bonus up to 30%+

🏠 Hybrid working model—2–3 days/week in London office

🌱 Career progression in a growing, well-funded trading firm