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Senior Software Engineer

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Role: Senior Software Engineer - Trading


Location: Houston, TX (Hybrid)


Overview


We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer to join the team building a next generation trading and risk management platform. This is a hands-on engineering role where you will design, architect, and develop enterprise-grade distributed systems running on AWS.


The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise in Python , strong AWS cloud architecture , and direct industry experience in commodities, energy trading, financial markets, or risk management systems.


Key Responsibilities

  • Design and implement cloud-native, distributed systems supporting trading, P&L, risk, and market data workflows.
  • Build scalable, fault-tolerant backend services and APIs using Python and modern AWS tooling.
  • Translate complex trading, pricing, and risk requirements into technical designs and system components.
  • Partner with architects, product managers, and domain stakeholders to align system capabilities with business needs.
  • Contribute to platform architecture decisions including data models, service boundaries, event streams, and integration patterns.
  • Drive best practices around testing, observability, security, and operational excellence.
  • Mentor engineers and contribute to code reviews, design reviews, and technical standards.
Required Qualifications
  • 10+ years of experience architecting and delivering enterprise-grade, distributed systems .
  • Expert-level proficiency in Python , including APIs, asynchronous programming, microservices, and distributed system patterns.
  • Extensive AWS experience , such as EKS/ECS, Lambda, SQS/SNS, API Gateway, IAM, cloud networking, monitoring, and logging.
  • Mandatory domain experience in commodities or energy trading , financial markets, or risk systems-including at least one of:
    • Front Office trading
    • Risk & P&L systems
    • Trade capture
    • Market data platforms
    • Risk management systems
  • Deep experience building high-performance, real-time or near-real-time systems used in mission critical trading environments.
Vacancy posted 8 hours ago
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