Software Engineer – Algorithmic Power Trading
Role Description
Your mission is to turn our quantitative trading models into a robust, scalable, and fully executable automated trading platform for the European power markets.
We are looking for a Software Engineer / Developer to join our power trading team and take ownership of the software infrastructure that turns trading strategies and quantitative signals into real-time, production-ready execution.
You will work closely with our quantitative and trading team to build the backend, execution engine, APIs, integrations, and supporting infrastructure required to operate automated trading strategies in the power markets.
The role will be highly hands-on. You will take models and signals from research and development and turn them into reliable software capable of making and executing trading decisions in live markets, initially focusing on the Danish power market and subsequently expanding across Europe.
A key part of the role will be developing the interface between our trading algorithms and market platforms such as Nord Pool,



including order generation, execution, monitoring, error handling, position management, and risk controls.
As the platform develops, you will also help integrate physical assets such as BESS, ancillary service markets, forecasting models, and optimization engines into the automated trading architecture.
Responsibilities
1. Build and maintain the automated trading execution layer
Turn quantitative signals and trading strategies into production-ready executable algorithms.
Develop the software responsible for generating, validating, submitting, modifying, and cancelling orders.
Build integrations with power market platforms, APIs, and other external data providers.
Develop robust handling of market events, API failures, connectivity issues, and unexpected conditions.
Ensure reliable and low-latency communication between our models, risk engine, and execution infrastructure.
2. Develop the core tr

📌 Software Engineer – Algorithmic Trading (Madrid)
🏢 Valanord
📍 Madrid