THE ROLE: Senior Software Engineer 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 Must have:



Strong Python engineering experience Experience building products from inception through production Demonstrable ownership of systems and architecture decisions Solid 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 (New South Wales)
🏢 Pearson Carter
📍 New South Wales