Python SDET Fixed Income & Swaps Post-Trade (5 roles total)

Be Part Of A High-Performing Team

Join a specialized capital-markets quality engineering team responsible for technology supporting sophisticated Fixed Income and derivatives transactions. The group works closely with developers, business analysts, and trading-domain specialists to ensure critical swaps workflows operate accurately across interconnected back-office platforms.

This environment combines practical Python development with deep financial-product knowledge. Engineers work directly with transaction workflows involving confirmations, clearing, payments, settlements, regulatory processes, and other downstream functions supporting institutional derivatives activity.

What's In Store For You

• Engagement: W2 only (no C2C/1099).
  
• Hybrid position in Charlotte, North Carolina, with three days onsite each week.
  
• Remote work is not available.
  
• Relocation candidates can be considered when they are fully committed to relocating.
  
• Contract-to-convert opportunity within a strategic capital-markets technology organization.
  
• Exposure to complex Fixed Income and swaps processing across mission-critical financial systems.
  

How You Will Make An Impact

• Build and maintain Python automation supporting Fixed Income and swaps applications.
  
• Work within existing automation frameworks and expand automated test coverage.
  
• Validate swaps through confirmation, clearing, payments, settlement, and regulatory workflows.
  
• Test deal-ticket attributes and ensure transaction information moves accurately through downstream systems.
  
• Perform defect investigation, triage, and root-cause analysis in collaboration with developers and business analysts.
  
• Validate changes across complex back-office trade-processing workflows.
  
• Gather requirements through discussions with technical and business stakeholders when formal documentation is limited.
  
• Help strengthen quality practices throughout the software development lifecycle.
  

Do you bring proven success in Python quality engineering and swaps processing?

• 5 7+ years of quality engineering, SDET, automation, application development, or related technology experience.
  
• Strong practical Python programming capability.
  
• Hands-on Fixed Income and swaps/derivatives experience.
  
• Experience testing or supporting back-office trade-processing applications.
  
• Ability to explain a swap transaction from origination through confirmation, clearing, payment, and settlement.
  
• Knowledge of actual swap deal-ticket attributes, including notional, fixed and floating legs, reference indexes, spreads, dates, payment schedules, and currency.
  
• Experience with automation frameworks and automated test development.
  
• Understanding of defect management and defect triage.
  
• Knowledge of QA/QE practices and how quality integrates into application-development delivery.
  
• Strong communication skills and willingness to proactively gather information from developers and business analysts.
  
• Ability to work independently without relying on highly detailed instructions.
  
• Experience with Murex, Sophis, Summit, Charles River, Aladdin, or comparable proprietary derivatives platforms is valuable.