GRADUATE SOFTWARE ENGINEER - Dubai, UAE - 2025 COHORT

Job Location: Dubai, UAE (We provide visa sponsorship & relocation assistance)

About Cobblestone Energy

Cobblestone Energy is an energy trading company specialising in the European Gas and Power markets. Established in 2017, we are shaping the future of global commodity trading with a focus on deep analytics and technological innovation. Our success is driven by our people, whom we back with real responsibility from the start. At Cobblestone Energy, excellence is valued and extraordinary talent from around the world is welcomed. Our flat organisational structure encourages a culture of innovation, granting team members autonomy and ownership of their work.

Cobblestone Values

• Lifelong learning with continuous reflection
• Independent thinking through a meritocracy of ideas
• The team is more important than the individual.
• Relentless pursuit of excellence
• Hiring and keeping only the most effective people
• Others must benefit from our existence.

Job Description

At Cobblestone Energy we are on a mission to build the most advanced European electricity trading and analytics platform, with our technology being used by our teams of commercial traders to create significant value. Being a member of our team, you will work on exciting challenges that come with large-scale data processing, automation, and analytics. We work in an agile and highly collaborative environment and challenge the norms of traditional business leadership. We are looking for enthusiastic and resourceful engineers who are passionate about building highly reliable and performance data processing solutions. Developing a strong domain knowledge of our industry over time is key to long term success in this role. 

This is a rare opportunity to take a leading role in the growth of a major player in the European Power Markets. We are looking for someone who would be committed to the long-term success of the business. We operate in the European Power markets, but our commercial trading operations are in Dubai, UAE.

If you have excellent programming skills, strong problem-solving skills and a passion for developing/improving applications utilizing cutting edge technologies, then we would like to meet you.

What we offer in this role

• A full-time position on our Tech team
• Committed and remarkably talented colleagues
• Highly competitive compensation dependent on performance
• An exciting, challenging and fulfilling career
• An opportunity to work on new things from scratch and make independent decisions.
• Investment in your development to ensure that you always remain the best in business
• Equity participation for strong contributors, ensuring our interests are all aligned long term

Responsibilities

• Be a key contributor to tech projects critical for commercial operations
• Write software applications and programs for backend/frontend purposes
• Analyse programs and apps to improve their features and functionalities in collaboration with the commercial teams
• Test & debug programs and fix any reported bugs
• Uphold and live our cultural values

Requirements

• BS/BE in Computer Science/Computer Engineering or related field
• Programming skills in Python language
• Familiarity & Knowledge in front-end technologies such as HTML5, CSS, JQuery, JS, etc
• Strong knowledge of REST APIs and webservices
• Strong knowledge of Relational Databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server) and SQL language
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
• Resilience and a determination to succeed
• Passionate, self-motivated, and fast learner

Desirable Experience/Skills

• Knowledge of at least one popular Python framework (like Django, Flask)
• Programming skills in Java
• Knowledge of NoSQL databases
• Knowledge of AWS
• Knowledge of data visualization tools, mainly Tableau