Software Engineer Middle/Back Office Asset Manager (Contract)

Software Engineer Middle/Back Office Asset Manager (Contract)

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An asset manager is improving their risk, P&L, and reporting systems and are looking for an experienced software engineer to work across several projects aimed to enhance and extended middle and back-office systems.
You will have a background in financial markets, ideally on the buy-side, with significant commercial experience developing enterprise production-grade systems in Python and/or Java, a solid understanding of financial products and their representation, as well as an appreciation of middle and back-office processes covering operations, risk, compliance, and reporting.You will have significant familiarity or proven experience using AI coding assistants to enable faster delivery in compressed timelines, coming either commercially or from personal projects.
You should apply for this role if you are/have:
8+ years commercial experience developing production-grade enterprise systems in Python and/or Java
Asset/investment management experience in the front or middle office systems space
Financial product understanding, ideally FIC, with operations, risk and compliance systems experience
Experience using AI coding assistants (Claude, Cursor, GitHub Copilot) with significant examples of delivery improvement
AWS (S3, Lambda, EC2, Glue), Snowflake, Git, CI/CD, Datadog, MS SQL Server, REST, GraphQL, Airflow (as many as possible)
Degree educated or higher in a relevant technical discipline from a leading university
This is a £650-700/day PAYE role (cf. £770 830 Umbrella as employers NI paid in addition) depending on the relevant experience of the candidate. xwzovoh On site 4/5 days a week, based London.