Software Engineer

Vattenfall is a European energy company with approximately 20.000 employees. For more than 100 years we have electrified industries, supplied energy to people’s homes and modernized our way of living through innovation and cooperation. We are looking for talented individuals who, in addition to their passion for their own role, also have strong team spirit and want to contribute to supporting a meaningful corporate mission.

Right in the heart of Vattenfall, at Business Area (BA) Markets , you will find an inspiring international environment, with a culture of care and personal growth, enabling you to be who you are, having fun, building strong relationships and learning every day. Find out what our colleagues think about our culture:

We employ around 500 professionals who are active across Europe with offices in Sweden, Germany, The Netherlands, and the United Kingdom to drive the energy transition together. Our role in Vattenfall is to maximize the value of the overall portfolio by optimizing and dispatching, hedging, and sourcing for Vattenfall's sales and generation volumes. We serve as Vattenfall’s single access to energy commodity markets and trade electricity, emissions, fuels, freight, and renewable certificates.

In BA Markets the mission of the Unit OU Operations is to drive the digital transformation. OU Operations consists of diverse and highly skilled employees from more than 20 countries. We work internationally from our locations in Stockholm, Hamburg and Amsterdam.

Job Description

Do you prefer to develop custom solutions with top-notch technology? Is it appealing to work in a dynamic trading environment closely together with stakeholders? Are you fascinated by directly seeing the impact on value of your own developments with instant feedback? Do you want to contribute to bringing our Intraday Power Trading IT landscape onto a superior level? In that case this job could be the right one for you. 

At Vattenfall, we don’t just “do energy”, we exist to help our customers power their lives in ever climate smarter ways and free from fossil fuel within one generation. We are one of Europe’s leading energy companies with trading activities in the global energy markets. Our Intraday business is expanding, and our IT landscape supporting that has a growing need for the fittest solutions. 

The team you can join works closely with business – our intraday traders – and takes the leading role in supplying custom developed solutions. It is working in sprints within a solid SCRUM framework. 

Your main tasks and responsibilities as Software Engineer :

• Development of new functionalities in our Intraday Landscape applications
• Always have a strong focus on testing (e.g. unit tests) to enable high available and flawless 24/7 operations
• Responsibility of the full application life cycle including maintenance
• Bug fixing and operational support for the Intraday traders as well as identifying common patterns advising the product owner on product improvements
• Maintaining Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines
• Learn our business and identify requirements together with business partners
• Working in agile teams - in this case a mature scrum team

Qualifications

Your Profile

• A graduate degree such as Bachelor in Information Technology/Management, Engineering or other related field or comparable professional experience
• Key technical knowledge requirements:
  • At least 2 years of Experience with Angular, TypeScript, .Net Core, .Net, C#
  • NgRx and RxJS
  • Cloud Native development
  • NoSQL databases
• Additional beneficial technical skills and knowledge
  • Microsoft Azure, Terraform, SQL Server, Kubernetes, Service Bus, Eventhub, Kafka, Rest API, Git, VS Code, DevOps

• Excellent communication skills and being a team player
• Strong analytics skills
• Proficient in English
• Knowledge of German at any level would be beneficial.
• Experience in agile software development method (Scrum) is welcome.
• Ideally basic knowledge in energy trading and/or willing to acquire it.

Additional Information

Benefits

Your development  is a priority at Vattenfall BA Markets. Your professional journey will benefit from working in the exciting industry of energy trading, and in interdisciplinary teams. To support your career, we offer opportunities to grow through training, job rotations, talent programs and a working environment that stimulates learning.

Our work culture  at Vattenfall is excellent. We have an open corporate culture with flat hierarchies. Modern and flexible working conditions, including mobile work, promote wellbeing. In Germany, our work week consists of 37.5 hours with, in many cases, the possibility to work part-time. Up to 49% of your working time can be mobile work, and you are entitled to 30 days of vacation per year.

Your health  is important to us. We provide several health programs and support throughout potentially challenging life situations.

Your colleagues  will be another highlight. We employ inspiring people with diverse backgrounds. Together with our culture and your tasks, they form an interesting and fun place to work.

You can find our new state of the art office next to Elbbrücken.

More information 
We welcome your application in English, no later than  31st of July 2025 . We kindly request that you do not send applications by any means other than via our website as we cannot guarantee that we will be able to process applications that are not made via our website. 

For more information about the recruitment process you are welcome to contact our Recruiter Jil Ungethüm  via phone at +49 40 79022 1378.

At Vattenfall we are convinced that diversity contributes to build a more profitable and attractive company and we strive to be good role model regarding diversity. Vattenfall works actively for all employees to have the same opportunities and rights regardless of gender, ethnicity, age, transgender identity or expression, religion or other belief, disability or sexual orientation.

The security of Vattenfall and its employees is essential. For that reason, a pre-employment screening will be part of your recruitment process. The screening is based on the role you will fulfill within Vattenfall. The screening will be performed by a third party, called DISA. In addition, a certificate of good conduct (i.e. criminal record certificate) is required for certain positions.

We look forward to receiving your application!