Senior Software Engineer

Job Description

A Senior Fullstack Developer, skilled in Python and React, is urgently sought after by a leading global Investment Manager based in the City. You will join their Front Office Portfolio Management function, working as part of a highly agile team building out a greenfield cloud-hosted Portfolio Management platform, specifically working on functionality to support their Equities trading business.

Responsibilities

• Work across the front and Back End using React and Python
• Contribute to design/architecture and analyse/review code
• Improve DevOps CI/CD pipelines and end-to-end testing (unit, integration etc.)
• Drive design and development for UI related tasks

Requirements

• A strong engineering background in Python and JavaScript/TypeScript with React
• Experience with frameworks/libraries such as Flask, NumPy, Pandas, and Redux
• Experience with React Hooks, ag-grid, and Cypress testing
• Strong knowledge of Microservices and APIs
• An Agile mindset, following TDD/BDD and modern DevOps practices such as CI/CD
• An appreciation of cloud-native development with AWS
• A background in the development of high performance, high throughput Front Office trading systems (either buy or sell-side)

Opportunity

This represents an excellent opportunity for a talented Fullstack Python/React Developer to join a World-leading firm and help drive the build of an exciting greenfield cloud-hosted Portfolio Management platform.

Contract Information

Please note this will be offered on a Fixed Term Contract basis for an initial period of 12 months.