Snr Python Developer

Senior Python Developer – Trading Systems

Location: Houston

Onsite Requirement: 5 days per week

Duration: 12 months + extension

Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled Python Developer with deep trading domain expertise to join a high-performing technology team supporting large-scale futures trading systems. This role requires strong hands-on engineering capabilities combined with strong knowledge of trading workflows, risk systems, and quantitative infrastructure.

You will play a critical role in designing and building scalable risk, position management, and back-testing services that support enterprise-grade trading operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and enhance high-performance Python-based trading services
• Implement scalable risk management, position management, and back-testing systems for large futures trading environments
• Develop distributed systems deployed in cloud-native environments
• Optimize services for performance, scalability, and reliability
• Manage and orchestrate containerized workloads using Kubernetes
• Partner closely with traders, quants, and stakeholders to translate trading requirements into scalable technical solutions
• Ensure robust testing, monitoring, and production stability

Required Experience

• Strong Python development experience in production trading environments
• Deep domain knowledge of trading systems, specifically futures markets
• Proven experience implementing risk, position, and back-test services at scale
• Strong experience with AWS (cloud architecture, deployment, scaling, infrastructure management)
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, including pod management and container orchestration
• Experience building distributed, high-availability systems
• Strong understanding of system performance tuning and optimization

Preferred Experience

• Experience working within large futures or commodities trading platforms
• Familiarity with event-driven architecture and real-time market data systems
• Background in high-performance or low-latency systems