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Location: New York, NY

Compensation: Up to $350,000 Base + Performance Bonus + Benefits

Employment Type: Full-Time

The Opportunity

We're partnering with a leading financial technology organisation that is transforming the infrastructure behind institutional trading, financing and capital markets.

They're looking for an exceptional 5t6U9q GMJ7FN2B zfphmRyt to take a leading role in designing and developing high-performance, distributed systems supporting complex trading operations across traditional and digital asset classes.

This is a senior individual contributor opportunity offering significant technical ownership, architectural influence and the chance to work on mission-critical platforms at the intersection of financial markets and cutting-edge engineering.

You'll work alongside experienced engineers, quantitative researchers and financial markets specialists, tackling challenging problems involving trade processing, real-time data and large-scale financial infrastructure.

What You'll Be Doing

• Architect and develop highly scalable, distributed backend systems supporting institutional trading, financing and risk management.

• Build robust, high-performance Python services handling complex financial transactions and large volumes of market data.

• Design and optimise data processing pipelines supporting real-time financial analytics.

• Develop integrations with exchanges, trading platforms and external financial counterparties.

• Take technical ownership of core trading infrastructure, improving reliability, scalability and performance.

• Collaborate with quantitative researchers, trading teams and business stakeholders to deliver sophisticated financial technology solutions.

• Drive architectural decisions, establish engineering best practices and mentor other engineers.

• Ensure critical systems meet demanding production reliability, availability and performance standards.

What We're Looking For

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant experience building production-grade backend systems.

• Strong expertise in Python, including designing and developing complex, scalable applications.

• Extensive experience within financial services, ideally investment banking, hedge funds, prime brokerage or institutional trading.

• Strong understanding of trade processing and the end-to-end trade lifecycle, particularly post-trade workflows.

• Proven ability to design distributed systems and high-throughput, data-intensive applications.

• Strong experience with relational databases, ideally PostgreSQL.

• Experience with AWS and modern cloud infrastructure.

• Familiarity with Kafka, Snowflake or similar data technologies.

Interested?

If you're a senior Python engineer with a strong background in capital markets, trading infrastructure or post-trade systems, we'd be keen to speak with you.

Apply directly or reach out for a confidential discussion.