Global commodity trader moving energy, metals and freight across markets
Trafigura trades and moves oil, metals, gas and power worldwide, backed by in-house quant and trading-desk engineering. The stack pairs Python, FastAPI and Pydantic AI with Snowflake, Redshift and the Allegro ETRM, and the move toward LangGraph signals agentic AI entering trading workflows. Finance-heavy, accelerating hiring alongside credit and trade-finance pain points points to balance-sheet and risk scaling, notably in Latin America.
Notable leadership hires: Nat Gas Contract Lead, Automation Lead
Trafigura is an employee-owned commodity trading group founded in 1993 and headquartered in Singapore. It sources, finances, ships and delivers oil and petroleum products, metals and minerals, gas and power between producers and consumers, and is investing in lower-carbon solutions. The group includes industrial and operating businesses such as Nyrstar, Puma Energy, Greenergy and the Impala Terminals joint venture. It employs over 10,000 people, operates in more than 150 countries, and is currently hiring across the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia.
Trafigura uses Python, C#, C++, FastAPI, React and TypeScript, with Snowflake, Amazon Redshift and Oracle for data, Allegro for trading, and AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform and GitLab CI/CD for infrastructure. It is adopting LangGraph.
Trafigura is hiring in Chile, China, the United States, South Africa, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Uruguay, Argentina, Peru, Greece, India, Singapore, Brazil, Guatemala, Canada and Mexico.
Current initiatives include expanding container shipping, risk and analytics tools for the power and gas desk, time-critical data integration pipelines, trading-desk workflow automation and end-to-end trade finance digitalization.
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