full-time
Senior Python Engineer - Systematic Trading & Analytics
Selby Jennings
- Employer
- Selby Jennings
- Location
- London
- Working pattern
- on-site
- Salary
- £120,000–£150,000 / year
About the role
Design, develop, and maintain production-grade Python applications and scalable infrastructure for large datasets and analytical workloads supporting financial analytics, research, and investment decisions. Partner with quantitative and investment teams, lead projects through the full software development lifecycle, and improve architecture, reliability, scalability, and performance. Requires extensive commercial software engineering experience and expert-level Python skills building complex, large-scale production systems, ideally in financial services or a related technology environment. Candidates should have experience with data-intensive platforms or quantitative applications, strong architecture and system design knowledge, and the ability to collaborate and communicate effectively with researchers, traders, portfolio managers, and other stakeholders.