senior python.core developer

Develop and support an in-house application that provides bespoke risk management tooling to Derivatives traders

Must liaise directly with both traders and quants to establish requirements, develop and test new functionality

Develop and support the end-to-end software development lifecycle, being involved in all activities: design, development, testing and deployment, ensuring our tooling and processes are enhanced as we evolve

Provide BAU support to ensure high availability. We have a commitment to ensure that there is always at least one developer available during business hours

Work with other IT teams to build or define required interfaces and architecture

There is the potential for this role to develop into a technical leadership role for the right candidate

3+ years of relevant experience

Senior/advanced Python programming skills

Experience of developing complex, business-oriented functionality with limited or fluid requirements, under tight timescales. This may have been gained on any trading floor or similarly paced environment

Experience of continuous integration and deployment of Python applications

Disciplines that support Agile software development: automated testing, Continuous Delivery, code review, pair programming, specification by example, etc.

Testing software (TDD, BDD, py.test, mock)

Writing software that is compliant to the SOLID principles. Passionate about writing clean code, refactoring, aiming to find simple solutions for complex problems

Version control with Git. Experience using the workflow based on forks, branches and pull requests presented by GitHub.

Relational SQL databases

OTC/Derivatives trade life cycle and position management experience would be highly regarded

Comfortable interfacing with mathematical pricing models (options preferably)

Commodities / Energy front office trading experience

GUI development using Qt5 / PyQt5. (Even better: Enaml)

ORM for SQL Databases, ideally SQLAlchemy

MongoDB (interfacing from Python)

Advanced distributed / concurrent programming

Conda (using conda as package manager and, even better, having used conda-build to build and distribute your own conda packages)

English level B2+ and higher

GitHub

MongoDB

Qt