Python Developer

Python Developer

Front Office Equities Technology

📍 London (Hybrid)

🏦 European Investment Bank

Overview

We are partnering with a leading European Investment Bank to hire an AVP-level 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

We are looking for genuine AVP-level engineers (typically 5+ years’ 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.)

Seniority Level

• Assistant Vice President (AVP)
• Strong mid-level to senior hands-on engineer
• Confident operating independently in a front-office setting

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