Senior Java / Python Engineer

Senior Java / Python Engineer
London | Up to £775/day (Inside IR35) or £120,000 Base Salary
5 Days Onsite for the First 6 Months | 4 Days Thereafter

This investments client is investing heavily in a strategic platform build-out driven by T+1 settlement requirements and continued business growth.

We're looking for engineers who enjoy building systems rather than maintaining them. This is an opportunity to join a growing team responsible for developing core Trade Lifecycle, Settlement, Finance Systems and Regulatory Reporting platforms supporting multiple asset classes.

The Opportunity You'll be involved in designing and building a next-generation platform covering:

• Trade Lifecycle Management
• Settlement Processing
• Finance Systems
• Regulatory Reporting
• Market & Reference Data Integration
• Workflow Automation
• Real-Time Processing Architecture

The business is moving away from manual and batch-driven processes towards a modern, event-driven platform, giving engineers the opportunity to have genuine influence over architecture and design decisions.

Technology Stack

• Java
• Python
• Spring Boot
• Kafka
• Linux
• PostgreSQL
• AWS
• Microservices
• REST APIs

What We're Looking For We are interested in engineers with experience in some combination of:

• Capital Markets Technology
• Regulatory Reporting
• Finance Systems
• Trade Lifecycle Processing
• Market Data Platforms
• Post-Trade & Settlement Systems
• Data Integration & Transformation
• Event-Driven Architectures

Experience with asset classes such as Equities, Futures, Securities Lending or Structured Products would be beneficial but not essential.

Ideal Backgrounds You may currently be working as:

• Java Developer
• Python Developer
• Software Engineer
• Regulatory Reporting Developer
• Market Data Engineer
• Trade Lifecycle Developer
• Finance Systems Engineer
• Integration Engineer

Why Join?

• Strategic greenfield-style platform development.
• Significant business investment and growth.
• Direct exposure to trading, operations, finance and regulatory functions.
• Opportunity to shape architecture and engineering direction.
• Mix of contract and permanent opportunities available.
• Growing team with multiple hires planned.