IN SHORT

We’re hiring a Lead Developer to play a pivotal role in both the technical leadership and people management of a high-performing development team. This individual will take ownership of setting the technical direction within the vertical, while remaining hands-on with development and ensuring the stability and reliability of production services. The team’s core focus is on building integration tooling between our trading systems and back-end financial platforms, delivering bespoke solutions in reporting and risk management. With a long-standing, trusted partnership with front-office risk and finance teams, the role requires close collaboration to gather requirements, design, develop, and implement high-impact solutions across the business.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Collaborative Delivery Leadership: Partner with Delivery Leads, Project Managers, and Functional Leads to ensure seamless alignment of engineering deliverables with business priorities, driving on-time and high-quality outcomes.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Build strong relationships with business stakeholders, acting as a trusted advisor and ensuring user needs and feedback are at the heart of solution design and delivery.
• Technical Vision and Engineering Excellence: Lead the technical direction for a portfolio of applications, championing modern engineering practices, scalable architectures, and continuous improvement within the development team.
• Cross-Team Collaboration: Proactively manage technical dependencies and integrations with other teams and platforms, working closely with fellow Lead Developers and Architects to deliver cohesive, future-proof solutions.
• Technical Advocacy and Knowledge Sharing: Serve as a key point of contact for technical queries and impact assessments, promoting best practices and fostering a culture of knowledge sharing and technical consistency across all engineering teams.

WHAT YOU'LL BRING

• Proactive and Value-Driven Mindset: Demonstrates strong commercial awareness and a focus on delivering business value, consistently identifying opportunities for impactful solutions with minimal oversight.
• Adaptability in Dynamic Environments: Thrives in fast-paced, ambiguous settings where priorities evolve rapidly, maintaining productivity and a positive outlook in a VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous) landscape.
• Collaborative Relationship Builder: Excels at building and nurturing strong professional relationships across multidisciplinary teams, fostering a culture of trust, knowledge sharing, and collaboration.
• Clear and Influential Communicator: Communicates complex technical concepts in a clear, engaging manner tailored to both technical and non-technical audiences, ensuring alignment and understanding at all levels.
• Technical Leadership and Credibility: Demonstrates deep technical expertise and thought leadership, inspiring confidence and respect from peers and direct reports while setting high standards for engineering excellence.

ABOUT US

Securing Energy for Europe – it’s a simple statement, with a bold ambition. SEFE is not just our name, but also encompasses everything that drives us. To accomplish this, we’re taking immediate action to secure gas supply – but also looking forward, to explore our role in the European energy transformation and how we can contribute to a stable and sustainable future.

SEFE, an international energy company, ensures the security of supply and drives the decarbonisation of its customers. SEFE’s activities span the energy value chain, from origination and trading to sales, transport, and storage. Through its decades-long expertise in trading and the development of its LNG business, SEFE has become one of the most important suppliers to industrial customers in Europe, with an annual sales volume of 200 TWh of gas and power. Its 50,000 customers range from small businesses to municipalities and multinational organisations. By investing in clean energies and especially in the hydrogen ecosystem, SEFE is contributing to the energy transition. The company employs around 2,000 people globally and is owned by the Federal Government of Germany.

Our international teams work across locations in Europe, Asia, and North America. We’re passionate about energy and the important role it can play in shaping a better future.

Securing energy – now and for the future.

We’re committed to creating an inclusive environment that embraces diversity and fosters the development of knowledge, skills, and experience. Whatever your role, you’ll find an open, welcoming atmosphere that empowers you, and recognises your contribution.

OUR BENEFITS

In return we offer a competitive starting salary supported by a comprehensive range of financial, lifestyle and wellness benefits with the flexibility to follow a hybrid working model.

• bonus earning potential
• non-contributory pension with 10% employer contribution
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays and volunteering days
• buy / sell holidays
• life assurance
• medical and dental insurance (family cover)
• range of optional flexible benefits

We are committed to supporting your career growth with opportunities to develop both your knowledge and experience through a blended approach to learning.

Join SEFE and help us secure energy supply across Europe and shape a better, more sustainable tomorrow.