Python Software Engineer Developer AWS Finance Trading London

  • Joseph Harry Ltd
  • Jan 31, 2024
Full time I.T. & Communications

Job Description

Python Developer (Software Engineer Python Data Enterprise Engineering Developer Programmer AWS GCP Athena Glue Airflow Ignite Agile Pandas NumPy SciPy Spark Dremio Apache Iceberg Arrow DBT gRPC protobuf Finance Trading Front Office Investment Banking Asset Manager Financial Services) required by my asset management client in London.

You MUST have the following:

  • Experience ability as a Senior Python Software Engineer/Developer/Programmer
  • Expert Python
  • AWS, GCP or Azure
  • Finance- not necessarily markets or Front Office trading
  • Agile
  • A strong desire to be up to date with technology

The following is DESIRABLE, not essential:

  • Apache Airflow and Ignite
  • Spark, Dremio, Apache Iceberg, Arrow, DBT
  • gRPC/protobuf
  • Data engineering (Athena, Glue etc)
  • Fixed Income

Role: Python Developer (Software Engineer Python Data Enterprise Engineering Developer Programmer AWS GCP Athena Glue Airflow Ignite Agile Pandas NumPy SciPy Spark Dremio Apache Iceberg Arrow DBT gRPC protobuf Finance Trading Front Office Investment Banking Asset Manager Financial Services) required by my asset management client in London. You will join a team of 5 that are responsible for the Back End architecture that ingests and distributes all the data coming into Fixed Income technology from internal and external sources. The environment is mostly built in Python and hosted entirely in AWS. There will also be some work to build analytics products too.

The stack is Python, AWS - such as Glue and Athena, and some tools such as gRPC, protobuf, Apache Ignite and Airflow. Gradually, they are also incorporating Spark, Dremio, Apache Iceberg, Arrow and DBT. You only need to come with strong Python and some exposure to AWS or another cloud provider. You must also come from the finance although this does not need to the Front Office.

The hybrid working set-up is 1-2 days/week in the office.

Salary: £120k - £145k + 20% Bonus + 10% Pension