Skip to content
CV Rocket
Get started
How it worksThe enginePricingBlogContactSign in

Open nowPosted yesterday

Full Stack AI Engineer - Commodity Trading

trafigura70 open roles

Where
Houston, United States of America
Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

Your applicationOpen nowFull Stack AI Engineer - Commodity Tradingtrafigura · Houston, United States of America

  1. YouYes, apply to this one.

  2. CV RocketCV written for this posting.

  3. 25 readersRecruiter, hiring manager, skeptic. Round after round.

  4. CV RocketApplied on trafigura's own form.

The reply lands in your private mailbox

3×more interviews than doing it yourself with ChatGPT.

The clock on this job

Early applications get read.

13.5% of postings close within 7 days. Measured by our own scanner across the market. trafigura postings stay open a median of 19 days.

Share of postings closed within
  1. 2.3%1 day
  2. 4.6%3 days
  3. 13.5%7 days
  4. 21.8%14 days
  5. 36.6%30 days
  6. 58.9%60 days
This job: posted yesterday

trafigura median: 19 days open

The posting

Main purpose

We are seeking a highly skilled technologist to join our dynamic and agile North America IT team. You will own the end-to-end development of web applications, workflows, and process automation solutions, ensuring these integrate seamlessly with the systems and data they depend on, and will make full use of AI tooling, including Claude Code/Cowork, across the entire software development lifecycle. This role demands a solid understanding of client, server, and data tier architecture, combined with the ability to build efficient, scalable, and user-friendly solutions across a wide range of technologies, along with practical skill in extending AI agents through tools and MCP servers so they can reliably connect to and act on those same systems.

A strong grasp of the commodities trading business is essential, as you'll be working closely with end users and building solutions that support the full trading cycle; familiarity with the oil and crude business specifically is a plus. This is a great opportunity to operate in a fast-paced commercial setting, playing a vital role in a data-driven trading environment.

Key responsibilities

  • Manage the end-to-end development lifecycle of a variety of applications, workflows, and automation solutions, ensuring optimal performance, scalability, and reliability
  • Evaluate business problems and determine the most effective solution type, whether a web application, workflow automation, or AI agent, and design the architecture accordingly
  • Bring innovative thinking to solving business problems, exploring new approaches and technologies rather than defaulting to familiar patterns
  • Participate in the technical design and development of significant or complex enhancements
  • Investigate and resolve high-severity issues, identifying root causes and implementing effective solutions
  • Collaborate with Business Analysts to understand functional requirements and translate them into technical specifications
  • Build and maintain integrations, including AI agent tools and MCP servers, that connect solutions to the systems and data they depend on
  • Coordinate with IT teams to deploy and scale new instances as required by performance demands and expanding business needs
  • Proactively identify and mitigate technical risks, performance bottlenecks, and system degradation

Required qualifications

  • Solid experience with server-side programming in at least two of: C#, Python, or Java
  • Extensive experience with front-end frameworks such as React or Angular, plus JavaScript/TypeScript and CSS
  • Solid general database knowledge, with the ability to write performant queries across relational and other database systems
  • Experience designing, building, and consuming APIs, with strong understanding of RESTful architecture and GraphQL where appropriate
  • Experience with workflow orchestration or automation tooling
  • Fluent daily use of AI coding tools such as Claude Code and Claude Cowork across the full development lifecycle
  • Practical experience building or extending AI agent tools and MCP servers to connect solutions to systems and data
  • Hands-on experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines in GitLab
  • 10+ years of hands-on development experience across the full stack
  • 4+ years of experience in a technical lead role
  • Experience in commodities trading or related industries
  • Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field

Preferred qualifications

  • Familiarity with the oil and crude business specifically
  • Exposure to commodity trading platforms or CTRM systems
  • Experience working with distributed or cross-regional engineering teams
  • Exposure to AWS

Attributes for success

  • Versatile and adaptable, comfortable moving between web applications, workflows, automation, and AI agent solutions rather than specializing in just one
  • Pragmatic approach to technology choices, picking the right tool for the problem rather than chasing trends
  • Curious and self-directed learner, quick to pick up new technologies, frameworks, and platforms as the problem demands
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with sound judgment on when a novel approach is worth the risk versus when a proven one is the better call
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills, able to collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders
  • High attention to detail, ensuring quality and accuracy of code and documentation
  • Able to manage multiple tasks and projects simultaneously, prioritizing effectively

Department overview

Trafigura is committed to building and maintaining world-class IT applications and infrastructure. The North America IT team directly supports the Trafigura trading business, delivering tactical, high-impact solutions with an innovative, close-to-the-business mindset. The team operates with the speed and flexibility of a small unit, empowering business teams with the tools and solutions they need to thrive — accelerating development cycles, staying highly responsive through close engagement with end users, and favoring decentralized decision-making over process for its own sake.

Reporting structure

You will report into the Head of Trading IT: North America, and work under the direction of the Chief Architect: North America.

Equal opportunity employer

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and take pride in a diverse workforce. We do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or other employment practices for reasons of race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital or veteran status, medical condition or handicap, disability, or any other legally protected status.

From $25, paid onceGet the CV for this job

What happens when you press

One press. We do the rest.

  1. A CV for this posting

    Written against trafigura's own wording, from every piece of relevant proof in your profile.

  2. 25 readers review it

    Recruiter, hiring manager, skeptic and more read every draft, round after round. You get the best round.

    The review screen in CV Rocket: how each CV was read, round by round.

  3. We apply on trafigura's form

    Our application engine gets through the hardest forms there are. Where a question needs you, AI suggests the best answer. Don't want us applying from our IP addresses? Use our Chrome extension: we apply straight from your own browser.

    An application in CV Rocket: every answer filled in on the employer's form.

  4. Every reply, sorted

    trafigura's answer lands in your private mailbox, and we classify it on arrival: interview, question, rejection.

    The CV Rocket inbox: each employer reply classified as an interview, an action or a rejection.

  5. Reply with AI

    AI helps you write the email, checks it and sends it. We show you whether the recruiter read it.

  6. The interview in your calendar

    Full integration with your calendar. The invitation goes straight in.

    An interview invitation in the CV Rocket inbox, added to the candidate's calendar.
Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

Why it works

3×

more interviews than doing it yourself with ChatGPT.

ChatGPT writes a CV and never learns what happened to it. We see every reply. For each CV we know:

  • How it was written, and how the review scored it
  • When we applied, and how long after the posting went up
  • Which posting, which company, which city
  • Who got the interview, and who heard nothing

That is how we know which CVs get called.

Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

The numbers game

More applications. More interviews.

Every application goes out with its own CV, written for that posting and paid once. Send enough of them and the law of large numbers finds you the job.

Get the CV for this job
By hand5–10
With CV Rocket100
applications a day

Nearby

Live postings like this one

Same employer first, then the same role elsewhere.

Before you press

Straight answers

Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

What if my background isn't good enough?

We make the most of the background you have. The CV uses every piece of relevant proof your profile holds, and one of the 25 readers reads your whole profile and flags what the CV left out.

Do you really apply for me?

Yes, on the employer's own form, the hardest ones included. Where a question needs you, you answer it right there and AI suggests the best answer. Don't want us applying from our IP addresses? Use our Chrome extension: we apply straight from your own browser.

Is it a subscription?

No. You pay once per CV, from $25. Every application goes out with its own CV, written for that posting.

One job. One CV.
Paid once.

Pick the posting you want. We write for it, apply for you and catch the reply.

Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.