Market Specialist

At FlexPower the quantitative trading team builds and operates fully automated strategies in European short-term power markets. We own our PnL and our systems end-to-end - from data collection to execution.

To deepen our understanding of market behavior were looking for a Market Specialist who combines market intuition with analytical rigor - and wants to see their insights directly influence live trading.

No external dependencies. No bureaucracy. Just high-impact work with direct feedback from the market.

• Understanding what moves short-term power prices and spreads.
• Turning complex market data into clear testable hypotheses.
• Working with quantitative researchers and engineers on model-driven strategies.
• Spotting anomalies regime changes and emerging structural patterns.
• Taking responsibility for your conclusions and their real-world outcomes.
• Contributing to a focused respectful and performance-oriented team culture.

• Analyze market behavior and identify key drivers of price and imbalance dynamics.
• Interpret and contextualize model performance across different market conditions.
• Build and maintain dashboards and monitoring tools for market signals and KPIs.
• Provide structured domain-grounded input for feature engineering and strategy refinement.
• Help improve and stress-test automated trading logic under changing market regimes.
• Execute small structured test trades to develop intuition for market microstructure liquidity patterns and exchange behavior purely for learning and strategy calibration.
• Participate in the teams rotation to monitor live model-based trading and address operational issues when they arise

• A Masters degree (or equivalent) in Engineering Mathematics Physics Economics or similar.
• Solid understanding of European short-term power markets ideally within Central Western Europe (e.g. DE NL FR AT).
• Ability to work with Python and SQL for data analysis.
• Curiosity about automated trading and market microstructure.
• A structured thoughtful and reliable working style.
• Strong communication skills in English (German is a plus).

• Experience in short-term power or balancing markets.
• Familiarity with EPEX systems market APIs or balancing platforms.
• Experience building dashboards for real-time or intraday monitoring.

• Direct impact on the PnL of one of Europes leading algorithmic power trading desks.
• A fast-moving technically rigorous environment.
• A culture that values precision clarity and teamwork.
• Competitive compensation and performance-based bonus.
• Modern office in central Hamburg and a high-trust team.

We believe in diversity.

We are honest about the fact that energy is still considered a male-dominated industry by someand we wholeheartedly disagree! We are building a diverse and inclusive team that welcomes minds who do not think alike.

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