Employment Type: Full-time & Permanent 

Location: Dubai, UAE (Visa sponsorship and relocation assistance provided)  

Annual Base Salary range of $80,000 - $110,000 per annum + performance-based bonus - 0% tax environment + opportunity to join our employee share scheme 

About Cobblestone Energy 

Cobblestone Energy is an energy trading company specialising in the European Gas, Power and Emissions markets. Established in 2018, we combine deep analytics, advanced data science and agile technology to drive profitable trading decisions. Our flat organisational structure empowers every team member with autonomy and ownership. Our diverse global team of extraordinary talent is united by a relentless pursuit of excellence. 

Cobblestone Values 

• Excellence in Hiring & Teamwork 
• Lifelong Learning Through Continuous Reflection 
• Independent Thinking Through a Meritocracy of Ideas 
• Winning 

 Job Description  

• We are looking for an Exceptional Software Engineer to join our automated trading team, focused on building and optimizing high-performance automated trading systems and supporting infrastructure. In this role, you will collaborate closely with traders, quantitative analysts, and infrastructure specialists to develop robust, scalable, and innovative solutions that directly impact our firm's trading operations. 

What we offer in this role   

• Competitive remuneration with rapid progression for strong performers.  
• Leadership opportunities on impactful technical initiatives.  
• Participation in the employee share scheme.  
• Internation relocation support.  
• Exposure to the commercial side of the business.  
• A highly collaborative and open working culture. 

Requirements 

• BS/BE in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related discipline 
• 2 to 5 years of hands-on software development experience in C#, C++ or Python 
• Proven experience building or contributing to trading systems with an understanding of orderbook structure, own order management and trade execution 
• Strong understanding of database design and system architecture for low latency systems 
• Ability to lead discussions, make sound architectural decisions, and deliver results 
• Strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset 
• Resilient, self-driven and aligned with Cobblestone's values 

Responsibilities 

• Design, develop, and optimize high-performance automated trading and infrastructure systems. 
• Collaborate closely with traders, quant analysts, and infrastructure teams to deliver solutions supporting quantitative trading strategies. 
• Develop robust, scalable software components to manage real-time market data pipelines, automated order execution, and risk management processes. 
• Ensure system reliability through automated testing, code reviews, and continuous integration and deployment practices. 
• Monitor and improve system performance, latency, and throughput in a fast-paced trading environment. 
• Investigate and resolve complex technical issues in production systems swiftly and accurately. 
• Maintain comprehensive documentation of software systems and processes to facilitate knowledge sharing and system support. 
• Participate in regular code reviews and adhere to established coding standards and best practices. 
• Contribute to continuous innovation through researching new technologies and tools to enhance the trading platform. 
• Mentor and support junior engineers. 

Employment type: Full-time & Permanent

Starting salary of USD 65,000 per annum + performance based bonus - 0% tax environment

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, Power and Emissions markets. Established in 2018, we combine deep analytics, advanced data science and agile technology to drive profitable trading decisions. Our flat organisational structure empowers every team member with autonomy and ownership. Our diverse global team of extraordinary talent is united by a relentless pursuit of excellence.

Cobblestone Values

• Excellence in Hiring & Teamwork
• Lifelong Learning Through Continuous Reflection
• Independent Thinking Through a Meritocracy of Ideas
• Winning

What we offer in this role

• A full-time position on our Commercial team
• Committed and remarkably talented colleagues.
• Highly competitive compensation dependent on performance
• An exciting, challenging and fulfilling career.
• 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.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support traders within your designated market team to develop and refine trading strategies
• Analyse market fundamentals including supply, demand, pricing behaviour, flows and regulatory updates relevant to your market
• Build and maintain forecasting models to support short term or long term market views
• Prepare clear market summaries, dashboards and presentations for internal stakeholders
• Monitor real time news, fundamentals and data to inform daily trading decisions
• Build and maintain personal AI-driven workflows to scrape, summarise, and structure vast amounts of unstructured market news and reports.
• Innovate on traditional reporting by automating dashboard updates and report generation using Python scripting or low-code AI tools.
• Collaborate with trading, risk and analytics teams to support commercial objectives
• Contribute to research on trading and hedging opportunities within your market
• Assist in creating analytical tools, dashboards and market views in partnership with data scientists and technology teams

Your background:

• Bachelor’s degree (or near completion) or master’s degree in mathematics, Physics, or related quantitative disciplines. We are primarily interested in candidates with strong analytical depth and structural thinking, regardless of whether they come from a purely technical or theoretical background.
• Exposure to at least one programming language (e.g. Python, C++, Java, or similar)
• Demonstrated proficiency in using AI tools to convert unstructured market signals (news, PDFs, web data) into structured, actionable insights.
• A "Builder" mindset: Experience creating small automations or scripts that eliminate manual data entry or repetitive analysis tasks.
• Understanding of basic concepts in data structures, algorithms and computational thinking
• Personal values aligned with Cobblestone’s culture and long-term vision
• Strong sense of ownership and responsibility
• Desire to grow within a high-performance, intellectually demanding environment
• Fluency in English, both written and spoken.

Preferred Background:

• Proven track record of excellence, academic or professional, in quantitative or analytical roles
• Experience working with time-series data, machine learning libraries, or cloud-based data platforms
• Demonstrated ability to innovate and drive end-to-end solutions

The Hiring Process

1. Application Review
2. Online Assessments: Psychometric and logical reasoning tests
3. Case Study: Research-oriented project to showcase your analytical approach
4. Remote Interviews: Three rounds with members of our Analytics and Trading teams
5. Offer & Onboarding: Join our Commercial Development Program, then step directly into your role as Junior Market Analyst

Employment Type: Full-time & Permanent

Location: Dubai, UAE (Visa sponsorship and relocation assistance provided) 

Competitive salary DOE + performance-based bonus - 0% tax environment + opportunity to join our employee share scheme

About Cobblestone Energy

Cobblestone Energy is an energy trading company specialising in the European Gas, Power and Emissions markets. Established in 2018, we combine deep analytics, advanced data science and agile technology to drive profitable trading decisions. Our flat organisational structure empowers every team member with autonomy and ownership. Our diverse global team of extraordinary talent is united by a relentless pursuit of excellence.

Cobblestone Values

• Excellence in Hiring & Teamwork
• Lifelong Learning Through Continuous Reflection
• Independent Thinking Through a Meritocracy of Ideas
• Winning

The Role

We are hiring a highly commercial Senior Power Market Analyst to own a European power market stack for our Forward Power desk. You will connect short term market dynamics across the day ahead all the way out to Y +3.

What we offer in this role 

• Competitive remuneration, with fast progression for strong performers. 
• A challenging but exciting, open, and fun work environment. 
• An opportunity to work with remarkably talented colleagues. 
• Vast growth potential in every aspect. 
• Performance based bonus. 
• Employee share scheme participation 
• International relocation support 
• Opportunity to be embedded within a commercial team for those with strong commercial interest 

Key responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end stack
• Build and maintain canonical data models for European power markets
• Convert data into explicit drivers of spreads and implied flows
• Develop feature layers linking fundamentals
• Translate trading questions into durable analytics, monitoring, and research inputs
• Partner with engineering to ensure reliability and performance of the stack

Requirements

• Strong understanding of European power markets and how short-term regimes influence the forward curve
• Strong Python and SQL skills and comfort building reproducible pipelines in a cloud environment
• Strong analytical judgement, data quality discipline, and ability to work with revised data releases
• Commercial mindset, able to explain drivers clearly and turn analysis into trade conviction
• Ownership mindset suited to a fast-paced trading environment