Senior Python Engineer (AWS) to support Public Markets with our client in the Investment Management Industry

Location: Toronto, ON

Hours: 37.5 - 40 Hours

Work Model: 3-4 Days/Office

Responsibilities:

• Work in collaboration with trading 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.

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.
• Strong hands-on experience in Python, RestAPI, AWS Cloud and Kubernetes.
• Good working experience in C++.
• 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.
• Experience in 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.