Quantitative Developer

**Quantitative Developer (Optimization Engineer)** **The role** You join the Analytics team of Centrica Business Solutions as a Quantitative developer. Your team is focused on optimizing performance and revenue of portfolios of flexible assets in a variety of energy markets. Together with the team you deliver projects from inception (market analysis and control strategy simulation) through implementation until production and operational follow-up. - The short summary:_ "You are a pragmatic number-savy developer that wants to develop software to solve complex challenges in the energy sector". - Lets break that down:_ - ** "number-savy"**: - You feel at ease with concepts like distribution and probabilities - You are capable of reasoning about computation complexity of algorithms - You know how to quantify and back test performance of algorithms - ** "developer"**: - You have experience with writing production ready code in a professional setting. Preferably in Python, but other languages can be considered as well. - You have experience with basic tools and concepts like Git, MySQL and Unit Tests - You have experience with Numpy, Scipy, Tensorflow, Docker, Kubernetes and Scala or are motivated to learn these - ** " develop software to solve complex challenges "**: - You know how to translate problems "from the real world" to a software solution - You know that writing software is not the goal, but just a tool towards enabling a business-goal - You feel at ease while talking to business experts to gain more knowledge about the context - ** "in the energy sector"**: - You care about the environment and the impact that we have on it. - You are motivated to enable a transition towards a higher share of renewables in the energy mix - ** "pragmatic"**: - You don't get lost in details and keep your focus on the end goal - Even though you are familiar with state of the art algorithms, you also know when simple solutions are sufficient **Our offer** An opportunity to: - Become part of a high potential and fast-growing energy technology company; - Become part of a high caliber team, where your creative input will have a high impact; - Contribute to the development of sustainable grid balancing solutions, strongly impacting reduction of carbon footprint in Europe and North America. Location is Antwerp (Belgium), walking distance from the station. We have a flexible home-working policy in place. **PLEASE APPLY ONLINE** by hitting the '**Apply**' button. Applications will ONLY be accepted via the ‘Apply’ button. This role is being handled by the Centrica recruitment team and NO agency contact is required.