Energy Aspects currently have an exciting opportunity available for a Frontend Engineer to join the Technology team based out of our Kolkata office.

The successful candidate will contribute to a growing suite of applications that serve our research, data, and multimedia content to clients. This role will have an immediate impact to the quality of service offered to both internal research teams and clients. You will work across our data application stack building React web applications from scratch on top of APIs or transferring previously built applications into React web applications.

The Technology team is responsible for the delivery of Energy Aspects’ core technology products. You will collaborate with other developers and UX/UI designers to build and style professional, premium-looking data applications, while also working very closely with our Data and Research teams on functional requirements.

Duties

• Work closely with the Data team to contribute to the development of internal- and client-facing data applications
• Contribute to new feature development across our applications and microservices
• Translate UI/UX design wireframes to actual code, with an eye for good design yourself
• Support bug fixes on a continuous basis
• Adding accessibility and performance improvements
• Improve the QA testing by adding tests to the features and bug fixes

Requirements

• Extensive experience with HTML, CSS/SCSS, JavaScript
• Excellent knowledge of modern JS libraries/frameworks - React.js, Next.js and/or Vue.js.
• Experience consuming REST APIs, webhooks
• Previous experience working in a development environment with Agile practices, CI/CD pipelines
• Git version control experience
• Excellent communication skills

Desirable skills

• Working knowledge of Python in a web development context (Dash, Flask, Django)
• Experience with AWS or Google Cloud Platform
• Previous experience with GraphQL
• Experience with build tools like Webpack
• Previous experience with automated test frameworks, e.g. Cypress
• Previous experience with ELK stacks and managed observability platforms e.g. NewRelic
• Experience with state management tools like Redux
• Experience working across time zones, primarily London/Europe, within a global company
• Experience working as part of a hybrid team alongside 3rd party vendors/contractors
• An interest in commodities, energy, or financial markets; a background in a market intelligence business

About us

Founded in 2012, we are an independent research consultancy that has enjoyed phenomenal growth since our inception, and we have very ambitious plans to continue our upwards growth trajectory. We are passionately committed to providing indispensable and industry-leading short, medium, and long-term analysis, and forecasts of the energy markets, that helps our clients trade, invest, finance and plan.

With the acquisition of macro research firm Medley Global Advisors, the combination of our market-leading global macro policy analysis and deep energy markets expertise, has further strengthened our services to the global financial markets and has enhanced our ability to support our expanding client base, as the energy transition gathers pace and markets look to find their feet in an uncertain future.

Our suite of subscription services can be tailored to meet our clients’ specific needs and combines a data-rich approach and our extensive network of contacts, with insight on geopolitics and energy policy to provide best-in-class assessment, analysis and forecasts of major trends, topics and regions. We also deliver timely analysis of breaking news events and offer proprietary data services that cover fundamental trade and supply/demand data, across a wide variety of products and markets.

Culture & Benefits

The proud recipient of a 1-star accreditation from Best Companies, we truly understand the importance of workplace engagement and genuinely value our people. We offer a fast-paced, driven, collaborative and dynamic working culture where you are recognised and rewarded for your contributions to our tremendous growth story.

Energy Aspects operates offices in all the major international commodities hubs and has a truly global reach. When looking for a location for a key hub that will support all of the company’s service’s we looked to Kolkata the home-town of our founder Amrita Sen. Kolkata offers an excellent location placed centrally among all of the international time zones along with access to first class talent in the local market. We’re building a team to support finance, IT, Talent Acquisition and Data Analysis and that’s just the start. The team will receive best in class benefits and will be a part of the thriving social and professionally supportive environment to be found in all our offices. You’ll work in one of the most striking developments in Kolkata’s landmark South City Business Park and you’ll have the opportunity to join and build a business-critical team right at the beginning.

Energy Aspects is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and promotes diversity within its workforce. As an international business we are determined that suitably qualified persons will never receive less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, race, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law.