Python Software Engineer

Location: London, UK - hybrid onsite role 3 days per week

Duration: Two years with extensions (PAYE position inside IR35)

Pay: £80-90 per hour (depending on experience)

Overview: In order to support significant and sustainable growth in the Structured Notes (SN) and Structured Products (SP) businesses, Equity Linked Technology is building a highly automated, fully STP system solving front‑to‑back business needs. The system will help automate pre‑trade and post‑trade activities including pricing, quoting, booking, client connectivity, workflow, sales/trader blotters, lifecycle management, documentation/confirms generation, and Treasury. This is a unique and exciting opportunity for a dynamic, enterprising mid‑level developer to join the fastest growing area in Equities Derivatives Technology and contribute to the continuing build‑out of technology and process automation solutions to enable significant SN and SP business growth.

The successful candidate will:

• Collaborate with other team members, platform teams, sales, trading, structuring, operations to achieve a collective result.
• Help build applications, services and tools that drive end to end automation, continuous monitoring, exception alerting, and metrics gathering to aid SN/SP decision‑making.
• Optimize Treasury workstream, with a view to increasing STP Rates into Treasury and supporting additional attributes requested by different Treasury Teams.

The ideal candidate will possess:

• 7+ years of technology development experience and specifically 3+ years of experience in development of front‑office equities derivatives systems.
• Ability to define relevant areas of the roadmap and articulate the vision to senior stakeholders, product owners and teams.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, interpersonal skills and demonstrate the capability for juggling multiple competing priorities.

Candidates will be proficient in software design focused on a cross‑language REST based n‑tier architecture and executed using agile methodologies (Scrum, Test Driven Development, unit/integration testing, pair programming, etc.). The successful candidate will be comfortable driving design and architecture, rationalizing business requirements and mentoring less experienced developers. There will be significant interaction with senior developers across other work streams as we integrate an increasingly complex product set.

Responsibilities:

• Develop a thorough understanding of our entire technology stack.
• Design and develop new features within existing Python services; create new services to expand the overall framework.
• Contribute to future design and architecture.
• Plan work in an agile manner with other team members.
• Write acceptance tests in cooperation with QA.
• Provide L3 user support.
• Communicate with our business and platform partners.
• Improve and develop our CI pipeline and deployment strategies.

Required Skills:

• 7+ years of technology development experience and specifically 3+ years of experience in development of front‑office equities derivatives systems.
• Computer science or equivalent degree.
• Demonstrable experience of having designed and developed complex server‑side functionality in Python.
• SQL - preferably Oracle.
• Shell scripting and basic Unix knowledge desirable.
• Proficient in writing unit, integration, and acceptance tests.
• Comfortable in an agile working environment.
• Self‑starter and proactive.

Desired Skills:

• Experience with modern web UI technologies; HTML5, React, RESTful services, Websockets.
• Knowledge of Structured Products (Notes, Warrants, Certificates).

Business Knowledge:

• Equity Derivatives.
• Regional variations of Products and Trading.