Job Description
THE ROLE
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Senior Software Engineer
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Responsibilities
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Design and develop software supporting research, trading and portfolio management.
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Build cloud-native applications and distributed systems on AWS.
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Design APIs and data pipelines processing large volumes of market data.
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Build real-time systems supporting investment workflows.
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Improve platform scalability, performance and security.
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Work directly with PMs, traders and quantitative researchers.
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Drive engineering standards and best practices.
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Contribute to long-term architecture decisions.
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Focus Areas
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This is heavily focused on:
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Greenfield engineering
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Ownership
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Product thinking
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Building systems from scratch
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Technology Stack
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Core:
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Python
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Django
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PostgreSQL
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AWS
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React
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TypeScript
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Docker
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GitHub
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CI/CD
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Nice to have:
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Event-driven systems
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Messaging systems
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Low latency systems
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Financial markets experience
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Must have:
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Solid Python engineering experience
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Experience building products from inception through production
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Demonstrable ownership of systems and architecture decisions
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Strong backend engineering experience
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Distributed systems experience
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Cloud experience (AWS preferred)
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Stable career history with long-term commitment
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Strong communication skills
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Preferred:
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Financial markets experience
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Trading systems experience
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Real-time systems experience
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Startup or scale-up experience
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Experience in smaller engineering teams with high ownership
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Candidate Expectations
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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?"
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📌 Senior Software Engineer (Victoria)
🏢 Pearson Carter
📍 Victoria