TTHE ROLE:

Senior Software Engineer

Location: Sydney CBD

Responsibilities:

- Design and develop software supporting research, trading and portfolio management.
- Build cloud-native applications and distributed systems on AWS.
- Design APIs and data pipelines processing large volumes of market data.
- Build real-time systems supporting investment workflows.
- Improve platform scalability, performance and security.
- Work directly with PMs, traders and quantitative researchers.
- Drive engineering standards and best practices.
- Contribute to long-term architecture decisions.

This is heavily focused on:
- Greenfield engineering
- Ownership
- Product thinking
- Building systems from scratch

TECHNOLOGY STACK:

Core

- Python
- Django
- PostgreSQL
- AWS
- React
- TypeScript
- Docker
- GitHub
- CI/CD

Nice to have:
- Event-driven systems
- Messaging systems
- Low latency systems
- Financial markets experience

THE CANDIDATE:

Must have





- Solid Python engineering experience
- Experience building products from inception through production
- Demonstrable ownership of systems and architecture decisions
- Strong backend engineering experience
- Distributed systems experience
- Cloud experience (AWS preferred)
- Stable career history with long-term commitment
- Strong communication skills

Preferred:
- Financial markets experience
- Trading systems experience
- Real-time systems experience
- Startup or scale-up experience
- Experience in smaller engineering teams with high ownership

The client is specifically looking for candidates who can clearly answer:

"What products have you built?"

and

"What was your contribution from idea through production?"

📌 Senior Software Engineer (Sydney)
🏢 Pearson Carter
📍 Sydney