Python Developer SQL - Market Data
In this role you design and build data platform components using Python to support data engineering and analytics at a hedge fund. You’ll develop and optimise ETL pipelines, data lakes/lakehouses, and distributed systems, while improving infrastructure and CI/CD practices. You’ll maintain and evolve microservices and data tools, ensuring reliable, high-performance platform operations. You join a small, collaborative team with ownership and meaningful impact, solving data-driven challenges at scale.
Pay / Benefits- Salary to 150k
- Bonus
- Pension
- Self development
- career progression opportunities
- Design and build data platform components using Python
- Develop and optimise ETL pipelines, Data Lakes / Lakehouses and distributed systems
- Improve infrastructure, observability and CI/CD practices
- Maintain and evolve existing systems (microservices, ETL, Excel add-ins)
- Support platform operations, ensuring reliability and performance
- Strong backend development experience with Python
- Experience working with financial or market data
- Experience designing and operating data-intensive and distributed systems
- Strong knowledge of databases (Relational, NoSQL and Columnar)
- Keen to own and work across the full development lifecycle
- Collaborative and pragmatic with stakeholder management skills
- 2.1 or above in a STEM discipline, likely MSc
- collaborative
- pragmatic
- stakeholder management
- Python
- ETL
- Data Lakes / Lakehouses