Software Engineer, DevOps, Backend Developer

Overview

Vitol is a leader in energy and commodities, with a strong focus on trading and infrastructure investments. The Software Engineer role supports internal applications, tools, and deployment processes that are critical to Vitol’s trading technology landscape.

• Maintain and improve internal application installation and deployment tools 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 and improve deployment processes for commercial and internally developed applications.
• Maintain, improve and support developer tools and development environments, integrating AI technology.
• Support and enhance CI/CD and software quality tooling, including Jenkins, Git, Bitbucket, and Sonar Qube.
• 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.

• 2 to 5 years of experience in software development, application engineering, Dev Ops, 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, Sonar Qube, Visual Studio Code.
• Knowledge of PL/SQL and database development tools is 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.