Software Engineer - Back Office & Support Functions IT

RWE Supply & Trading Asia-Pacific Pte. Ltd.,  Singapore

To start as soon as possible, full time, permanent

Functional area:  IT / Digital 

Your future plans

Help build the technology behind our growing Asia-Pacific trading business. Based in Singapore, you’ll join APAC IT as an embedded member of our Global Back Office IT team, working closely with colleagues across Europe and other regions.

Your core focus will be keeping business-critical Back Office applications running reliably, supporting trade processing, clearing, settlement and other post-trade activities. You’ll also partner with colleagues across Accounting, Credit Risk, Market Risk, Trade Finance, Legal and HR to simplify workflows and deliver practical automation and AI-enabled solutions.

• Support and enhance Back Office applications and integrations, investigating incidents, resolving technical issues and addressing their root causes.

• Design, develop, test and deploy application improvements, collaborating with global colleagues on maintenance, releases, upgrades and production support.

• Strengthen application reliability through monitoring, operational controls, documentation and improved support processes.

• Translate business challenges into maintainable applications, scripts, APIs and workflow integrations that reduce manual effort and improve data quality.

• Automate reconciliations, reporting, data validation and document processing, applying AI-enabled capabilities where appropriate and approved.

• Act as a regional IT contact for APAC Support Functions, coordinating requests, incidents and priorities with the relevant Global IT owners.

• Reuse global solutions wherever possible and ensure regional developments meet architecture, security and engineering standards.

• Apply sound development practices, including code reviews, automated testing and CI/CD, while sharing knowledge across regional and global teams.

Your powerful skills

You combine strong engineering skills with a practical approach to problem-solving and a clear sense of ownership. You’re comfortable balancing production support with development and enjoy working with business users to simplify complex processes.

• A bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology or a related discipline.

• Significant experience in software engineering, application development and production support for business-critical enterprise applications.

• Strong programming and scripting skills in C#, Python, SQL or comparable technologies.

• Proven ability to troubleshoot complex application and integration issues, with a good understanding of relational databases, data processing and system interfaces.

• Experience delivering workflow automation, application integrations and reporting solutions across the software development lifecycle.

• Familiarity with Agile and DevOps practices, including Git, CI/CD and automated testing, alongside application security, operational controls and change management.

• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to translate business requirements into practical solutions and collaborate across global teams.

• An independent, organised and customer-focused approach, with the ability to manage competing priorities and a commitment to continuous improvement.

Advantageous, but not essential

• Experience in energy or commodity trading, financial services, Back Office operations or another transaction-intensive environment.

• Familiarity with trading, risk, settlement or finance applications, including Endur or similar systems.

• Experience with .NET, PowerShell, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, REST APIs, messaging or file-based integrations.

• Exposure to AWS or Azure, Power Automate, business intelligence tools, or application monitoring and incident management tools.

• Practical experience with GenAI-assisted development, intelligent document processing or AI-enabled workflow automation.

What we can offer you

This role offers the opportunity to strengthen IT capabilities in a strategically important growth region for RWE Supply & Trading. You’ll work close to the business, see the impact of your engineering decisions and contribute to solutions supporting day-to-day trading operations.

You’ll combine regional ownership with collaboration across a global engineering team, deepen your understanding of energy trading and explore practical applications of automation and emerging technologies.

Join us in Singapore and help shape the technology supporting our APAC trading business.

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RWE Supply & Trading is our connection to the world’s energy markets. Headquartered in Essen, Germany, the company operates one of Europe’s largest and most advanced energy trading floors. A diverse team of over 2,200 professionals from around 90 countries trades electricity, gas, commodities, and CO2 emission allowances. With precise market analysis and a strong customer focus, we create innovative energy supply solutions and tailored risk management concepts for industrial clients.

We also ensure the commercial optimisation of RWE’s power plant portfolio and markets the electricity generated by RWE. In addition, legally independent RWE gas storage companies operate in Germany, contributing to a secure energy supply