Staff Python Engineer

HRLabs is excited to present a great opportunity to join a leading investment technology team. Our client is redefining how technology powers financial markets, combining systematic trading, quantitative research, large-scale data platforms and AI solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own architectural direction for critical systems and drive long-term technical decisions across multiple teams.
• Design and build scalable backend systems, APIs, distributed applications and high-performance data pipelines for large financial datasets.
• Work across relational, NoSQL and time-series databases, with a strong focus on performance, resilience, observability and production readiness.
• Act as a technical partner to engineers, researchers and platform teams, translating complex requirements into clear technical strategies.
• Raise engineering standards through hands-on mentorship, code reviews, testing practices and technical guidance.

Your Background:

• 8+ years of professional software development experience, with deep expertise in Python or another object-oriented language and the ability to quickly reach expert-level Python proficiency.
• Proven experience owning architecture and technical direction for production systems operating at significant scale.
• Strong academic background in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, Physics or a related quantitative field.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, orchestration, performance optimisation and large-scale data processing.
• Excellent knowledge of Linux, Git and modern software engineering practices, including testing, monitoring and deployment.

Bonus Skills:

• Experience with the Python scientific stack, including pandas, NumPy, SciPy and scikit-learn.
• Familiarity with technologies such as Prometheus, InfluxDB, Elasticsearch, Kafka, Hadoop or Spark.
• Experience with LLMs, open-source contributions or engineering standards and communities of practice.

Our Client Offers:

• Work on challenging problems at the cutting edge of finance and technology.
• Small, agile teams with high autonomy and impact.
• Hybrid working model and flexible schedules.
• Professional development opportunities, internal tech talk and external conferences.

Join a forward-thinking team and take your career to the next level. Apply now!

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Only short-listed candidates will be invited for an interview.

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