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Senior Python Engineers – Trading & Risk | Up to £700 per day

Hunter BondLondon🇬🇧United KingdomPosted 16 Oct 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

You can elevate your career with exciting Senior Python Engineer opportunities in leading financial services firms, offering up to £700 per day and a hybrid work model for flexibility. If you have extensive Python development experience and a passion for trading or risk systems, you'll thrive in these roles focused on building high-impact, scalable solutions. Apply now to explore these rewarding positions.

Quick Overview

Seniority
Mid Senior
Employment type
Full Time
Work mode
Hybrid
Location
London, United Kingdom
Posted
Yesterday
SQLPython

Job Description

Senior Python Engineers – Trading & Risk | Up to £700 per day

It’s shaping up to be a great time to be a Python developer! We’re working on multiple contract opportunities within leading financial services environments, spanning trading, risk and full-stack engineering.

If you have extensive Python development experience and a background in high-performance trading or financial services environments, we’d love to hear from you.

The opportunities

We’re looking for experienced Python engineers to work across a range of projects, including:

  1. Trading Systems: Developing and enhancing applications supporting trading workflows and financial markets.
  2. Risk Engineering: Building backend services and distributed systems for risk data processing, analytics and reporting.
  3. Full-Stack Development: Building scalable applications across backend services, APIs and frontend technologies.
  4. Financial Platforms: Improving business-critical systems, data processing pipelines and enterprise-grade applications.

What we're looking for

  1. Extensive commercial Python development experience.
  2. Experience within financial services, ideally investment banking, trading or risk.
  3. Strong backend engineering and API development skills.
  4. Experience with SQL, data processing and scalable systems.
  5. The ability to work with technical and business stakeholders to deliver high-quality solutions.

The details

  1. Rates of up to £700 per day.
  2. London-based opportunities with hybrid working arrangements.
  3. Contract positions, with Inside IR35 arrangements depending on the role.

Interested in exploring your next contract? Drop me a message and let's have a chat!

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