Python Developer - Financial Markets Technology
Python Developer
Front Office Equities Technology
📍 London (Hybrid)
🏦 European Investment Bank
Overview
We are partnering with a leading European Investment Bank to hire a Python Developer into their Front Office Equities Technology team.
This is a front-office aligned role supporting pricing, trading and risk systems used directly by Equities desks. We are specifically seeking experienced, hands-on developers – not junior profiles – who are comfortable working in a fast-paced trading environment.
The Role
You will join a high-impact Equities technology team responsible for:
- Pricing libraries and risk calculation engines
- Trading tools and desk analytics
- Real-time data processing and reporting solutions
- Enhancements to structured equity and derivative platforms
The role combines development, stakeholder engagement and production support within a business-critical trading environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and develop robust Python-based applications for front-office use
- Enhance pricing and risk models used by trading desks
- Build and optimise tools for real-time market data processing
- Work closely with traders, quants and structurers to gather requirements
- Improve performance, scalability and reliability of trading systems
- Contribute to architecture decisions and best practice engineering standards
Required Experience:
- Strong commercial experience in Python (essential)
- Experience building production-grade applications in a financial services environment
- Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and system design
- Experience working with APIs, distributed systems and real-time data flows
- Strong SQL skills
- Comfortable interacting directly with Front Office stakeholders
Highly Desirable
- Experience in Equities, Structured Products or Derivatives
- Exposure to pricing or risk analytics systems
- Experience working alongside traders or within a trading floor environment
- Knowledge of market data feeds and trading workflows
- Experience with performance optimisation or numerical libraries (NumPy, Pandas, etc.)
Why Apply?
- Direct exposure to trading desks
- Business-facing, high-impact development
- Opportunity to work on core pricing and risk platforms
- Clear progression within Equities Technology