Developer & Business Analyst – Trading Systems

• Full-time

Vitol is a leader in energy and commodities. Vitol produces, manages and delivers energy and commodities to consumers and industry  addition to its primary business of trading, Vitol is invested in infrastructure globally, with $13+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 2025 were $343bn.

This role is ideal for a passionate, entrepreneurially minded developer who thrives on ownership
, impact
, and a dynamic environment. You will have end-to-end ownership of the solutions you deliver, from the first conversation with the business to final rollout and beyond. You will be trusted to shape the best approach to delivering against business priorities and timelines, in a flat, team-oriented environment that values ideas and individual contributions.

Your role

We have developed our own Commodity Trading Risk Management (CTRM) system that covers all aspects of our business activities across the globe: from trade entry through middle-office, with P&L reporting and price risk management, down to invoicing – for every commodity we trade, including electricity, renewables, gas, crude oil, refined products, biofuels, or carbon certificates. We place our CTRM at the heart of how the company operates;

it is used daily by teams across trading, middle office, finance and operations. Our most critical systems are built in-house by teams like ours, helping orchestrate global energy flows.

What defines success in this role:

• Technical excellence
  : design and implement clean, well-documented and extensible features. Write maintainable, high-performance code.
• Ownership: work with a high degree of autonomy and take responsibility for the full lifecycle of your deliverables: requirements, design, development, testing, rollout, training and ongoing support.
• Business partnership
  : engage directly with trading desks, finance and senior management to identify and prioritise requirements. There is no intermediary: you are both the business analyst and the developer. You go beyond what users explicitly ask for: understanding the context, spotting pain points they may not articulate directly, and building what truly serves the business.
• Teamwork
  : end-to-end ownership does not mean working alone. Your work integrates into a much larger system, and you stay closely connected with other development teams. You will become a trusted partner to colleagues and stakeholders across the firm.

As we work as one united team covering PnL, Risk, VAR and options, the projects may be as diverse as:

• Helping redesign our CTRM reporting architecture to enable fast, scalable access for the demands of an AI-driven world
• Modelling cash-for-product loan repayments in our Finance P&L
• Building a valuation engine for complex options that we trade
• Running a systems integration with a company we have acquired

For large projects, you may travel to other Vitol main offices – Houston, Singapore, London, Rotterdam – to ensure smooth integration and adoption on the ground.

Our core technologies, PL/SQL and Oracle Forms Builder, form the foundation of our core trading platform and have been central to Vitol's success story. When you join, you will work with these established technologies to quickly get up to speed with our data model and business logic, and start adding value from day one. As our platform continues to evolve, we are progressively embracing a more contemporary technology stack, creating opportunities for those interested to be part of shaping what comes next.

Required

• University…