Software Development Intern

Summary

Join Ostrom, a leading European energy management platform, and contribute to the green revolution of the electricity market. As a motivated intern in the Finance team, you will support the development and automation of power sourcing, hedging, and trading processes. Your work will involve automating data processing, improving the codebase, building Tableau dashboards, and potentially enhancing hedging and forecasting methodologies. This internship offers a chance to make a real environmental impact and work in a dynamic, flexible, and collaborative environment. Ostrom provides a hybrid work model, team events, and various other benefits. The ideal candidate is a computer science student with Python and SQL coding experience, familiar with unit testing and database design.

Requirements

• Student enrolled in computer science, or similar
• Coding experience in Python and SQL
• Familiar with unit testing, basic principles in software engineering and database design
• You have very good organizational and communication skills in English (B2-C1), both written and spoken
• You have a hands-on mentality and enjoy working in a young and dynamic environment
• You have strong teamwork skills

Responsibilities

• Automate our data processing with daily/monthly jobs on AWS and define the database structure to store input data and results of our hedging process
• Constant improvement of our existing code base, adhering to best practices in software engineering, including unit testing
• Build beautiful Tableau dashboards for data analysis and hedging process monitoring
• Depending on skillset: Improve our hedging and forecasting methodology

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in Tableau
• Knowledge of the German energy market, especially regarding sourcing, hedging and pricing
• You have an understanding of stock markets (e.g. future, spot and intraday markets) and derivative products (e.g. futures/forwards & options)
• Good knowledge of applied mathematics / data science (e.g., statistics, linear algebra, (convex) optimization, machine learning)

Benefits

• Flexibility: We offer a hybrid work model with a dog-friendly office in Berlin, Mitte if you prefer working in the office
• Benefits: From monthly team events to discounted gym membership, ticket for public transport, e-Moped or e-Bike via Dance, Futurebens, and monthly vouchers
• Our mindset is we are learning together, with personalized development pathways, learning budgets, and company-wide knowledge sharing sessions