Front Office Python Developer | *Metals Trading Desk* | 950/Day Inside IR35 | 6 months rolling | Hybrid 2 days London

Front Office Python Developer | *Metals Trading Desk* | 950/Day Inside IR35 | 6 months rolling | Hybrid 2 days London

Were seeking a Senior Front Office Python Developer to join a specialist global Energy & Commodities trading firm. The business is a long-standing market leader with activity across multiple commodity classes this role sits within the metals trading area and will support both financial and physical trading teams.

The role will focus on building and improving a modern metals trading analytics & visualisation platform. Youll deliver production-grade Python systems, dashboards, automation and data pipelines that provide traders and risk teams with fast, reliable insights to support trading and risk decision-making.

6 month rolling contract (strong likelihood of multi-year renewals)

Rate: Up to 950/day , Inside IR35

Working pattern: Hybrid 2 days per week in London office

Python, Front Office Trading Systems, Metals Commodity Knowledge

Key responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain production Python services and ETL pipelines for trading analytics.
• Build and enhance dashboards and visualisations (Grafana or equivalent) for traders and risk teams.
• Implement analytics, aggregation and automation to improve data quality, latency and reporting.
• Work closely with traders, risk, and data engineers to translate business requirements into reliable software.
• Contribute to deployment, CI/CD, containerisation and monitoring of services.
• Help maintain documentation, tests and runbooks for production systems.

Technical / professional skills (essential)

• Strong production Python experience (3+ years at senior level).
• Proven experience with data engineering / ETL and time-series or market data.
• Experience building dashboards/visualisations Grafana highly preferable .
• Solid SQL skills and working knowledge of databases (Postgres, TimescaleDB or similar).
• Familiarity with containerisation (Docker), CI/CD pipelines and observability/monitoring.
• Comfortable working directly with trading or business stakeholders to deliver pragmatic solutions.

Nice to have

• Experience with derivatives or commodity trading workflows (metals experience a strong plus).
• Familiarity with REST APIs, message queues (Kafka/RabbitMQ) or real-time data feeds.
• Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS/GCP) and infrastructure as code.
• Background in statistical analysis or machine learning (applied to trading workflows desirable but not required).

If youre interested please reply with an updated CV or send directly to: oscar@virtuetech.io

Front Office Python Developer | *Metals Trading Desk* | 950/Day Inside IR35 | 6 months rolling | Hybrid 2 days London