Senior Software Engineer Python AWS Front Office
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Summary
Senior backend engineer building and enhancing high-performance front-office trading systems and cloud infrastructure in Python on AWS for a Central London financial firm. Day to day involves DevOps/CI-CD and containerised delivery, occasional front-end work, and owning the software delivery lifecycle end to end.
Salary: £100,000 - 100,000 per year
Requirements:- Advanced backend Python development skills
- Strong knowledge of AWS, DevOps practices, CI/CD and containerisation
- Comfortable with occasional front-end work
- Experience owning the end-to-end software delivery lifecycle
- Experience working in front office trading environments
- Pragmatic with strong communication skills
- Design, develop and enhance high-performance trading systems and cloud infrastructure
- Support critical front, middle and back office operations
- Collaborate with stakeholders across the business to translate complex requirements into scalable, resilient technology
- Lead projects from design through to deployment
- Build secure, highly available systems capable of handling large volumes of market and trading data
- Champion engineering best practices, automation, DevOps and cloud architecture
- Help continuously improve the teams technical capabilities
- AWS
- Backend
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- DevOps
- Support
- Python
More:
We are a global Japanese bank expanding our product offering within the UK, with a role based in our London, Bank office. The position offers a hybrid working pattern with three days in the office and two days working from home. We offer a competitive package including a salary of up to £130k, bonus, pension and career advancement opportunities.
last updated 36 week of 2026