Job Type: Contract

Job Category: IT

Job Description

Role: Senior Python Developer

Location: Toronto Downtown, ON – Hybrid (4 days/week -  Onsite)

Long Term Contract – W2/C2C

 Interview process: 15 Min phone call with me, 90 Min technical interview, 60 Min client interview – hired.

• Must-have requirements are: Python Core, AWS and Kubernetes (or AWS EKS), REST API -all should be quite strong.
• Capital markets or financial services experience is strongly preferred.

Job Description

• You will work as a Senior Engineer/Developer in Public Markets Technology, partnering with Investments' traders, investment professionals and operations staff to design and implement solutions enabling trading and post trade activities.
• You will be responsible for hands on development and maintenance of solutions covering a number of asset classes including equities, fixed income, derivatives, OTC and FX.
• Through close partnership with investment professionals and operations, you will see firsthand how your software is impacting trade activities and delivering long-term value to the Fund for the benefit of 20 million contributors and beneficiaries.

Roles/Responsibilities

• Work in collaboration with investment professionals, operations and technology teams to design and build solutions enabling trade activities across a number of asset classes including futures, equities, fixed income, derivatives, OTC and FX.
• Collaborate with team members to conceptualize, design and develop new software applications. Applications may be server-side enterprise solutions, GUI, or highly customized solutions developed for the specific needs of a business partner.
• Create solutions tailored to business requirements aligned with the long-term architecture and technology strategy using Amazon Web Services (AWS) for Cloud development.
• Maintain and improve existing applications to support trading functions.
• Effectively unit test and perform integration testing on software components.
• Prepare and document design and program specifications.
• Manage timelines/deliverables towards the successful delivery of projects.
• Develop the right IT behaviors to enable building scalable solutions within predictable time frames.
• Provide knowledge transfer to team members and support staff through application demos, walkthroughs, and documentation.
• Provide responsive business assistance while adhering to processes required for quality enterprise-level software development and support.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications 

Must haves:

• University degree in Engineering or Computer Science.
• Good understanding of trading, derivatives, trade life cycle with an eagerness to contribute to the systems that support them.
• Must have 10+ Years of development/coding experience in Python
• Strong hands-on experience in Python, RestAPI, AWS Cloud and Kubernetes.
• Strong working knowledge of Databases i.e. SQL.
• Experience in capital markets and eagerness to contribute to the systems that support trading activities.
• Strong knowledge of software development best practices and patterns.
• Commitment to guiding principles of integrity, partnership and high performance.
• Experience in DevOps and CI/CD. 

Nice to haves:

• Experience in Terraform.
• Knowledge of Bloomberg and/or Murex trading platforms.
• Knowledge of FIX protocol.
• Experience in other programming languages like Java.
• Good working experience in C++.

Required Skills