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

We're 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. You'll 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 you're interested please reply with an updated CV or send directly to:

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