Optimisation and Trading analysis intern (Software Engineer)
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When you join EDF Trading, you’ll become part of a diverse international team of experts who challenge conventional ideas, test new approaches, and think outside the box.
Energy markets evolve rapidly, so our team needs to remain agile, flexible, and ready to spot opportunities across all the markets we trade in power, gas, LNG, LPG, oil, and environmental products.
EDF Group and our customers all over the world trust that their assets are managed by us in the most effective and efficient manner and are protected through expert risk management. Trading for over 20 years, it’s experience that makes us leaders in the field. Energy is what we do.
Become part of the team and you will be offered a great range of benefits, which include (location dependent) hybrid working, a personal pension plan, private medical and dental insurance, bi-annual health assessments, corporate gym memberships, an electric car lease programme, childcare vouchers, a cycle-to-work scheme, season ticket loans, volunteering opportunities, and much more.
Gender balance and inclusion are very high on the agenda at EDF Trading, so you will become part of an ever-diversifying family of around 750 colleagues based in London, Paris, Singapore, and Houston. Regular social and networking events, both physical and virtual, will ensure that you always feel connected to your colleagues and the business.
Who are we? We are EDF Trading, part of the EDF Group - a world leader in low-carbon, sustainable electricity generation.
Join us, make a difference, and help shape the future of energy.
Job Description:
Department
Optimisation & Trading Analytical Team
The Optimisation and Trading Analytics Team is located in Paris and London. The core purpose of the team (10 people) is the development of complex market forecasting models and asset optimisation tools to support EDF Trading proprietary activity and EDF Group portfolio optimisation. The team efforts are directed towards both the Paris based activity in the short-term electricity markets as well as the longer-term horizon and other commodities traded from London. The team works in proximity with the trading desks and other analyst teams in both locations.
Position purpose
The main focus of the internship is to contribute to modernising our data platform and technologies for backend applications for our power forecasting models.
This is an opportunity to work with both data infrastructure and technologies directly used for our applications and impacting the business.
Main responsibilities
The internship will have three parts:
- Exploring ClickHouse DBMS and recommend usage in the team with the help of the senior software engineer. Depending on the outcomes of the study, a side project for data migration may be initiated
- Improving and expand usage of our notification systems (event triggering application currently using Kafka)
- Migrating a Python Flask application to FastAPI and leverage asynchronous capabilities to improve handling of background tasks.
Technical skills requirements
- Familiar with:
- databases
- real-time notification systems
- Python and APIs
- Git
- Strong programming skills in object-oriented programming
Personal and professional requirements
- Educated to degree level with a high computer science component
- Hands-on approach, flexible and positive attitude
- Enthusiastic about Energy and/or Trading
- Attention to detail and strong focus on accuracy of information
- English language skills
- Good communicator/collaborator
Duration:
6 months, starting between February and April 2026
Hours of work:
Monday to Friday - 35 hours per week
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