Python Product developer - Energy Trading - London Inside IR35

Product Developer | Energy Trading | London | Contract

We're recruiting for an experienced Technology Product Developer to join a high-performing engineering team delivering a cutting-edge post-trade platform within a leading energy trading business.

This is an excellent opportunity to work on a modern AWS-based platform that provides Real Time position and P&L reporting while digitising key trading processes across Front Office operations.

You'll be joining a collaborative, agile development team building scalable cloud-native solutions that directly support trading activities.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain modern Back End and Front End applications
• Deliver scalable, secure and reliable software solutions
• Collaborate with business stakeholders and technical teams to solve complex business challenges
• Contribute to architecture and technical design decisions
• Enhance CI/CD pipelines and support continuous delivery practices
• Work closely with cloud, infrastructure and security teams to ensure best-practice solutions

Essential Skills & Experience

• 7+ years' commercial Python development experience
• Current hands-on Python development within your latest role
• Experience building and consuming REST APIs and/or GraphQL services
• Strong object-oriented programming skills
• Experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL desirable)
• Experience working in Agile development environments
• Proven ability to troubleshoot and solve complex business problems
• Commodities, energy trading, financial markets, or other Front Office trading environments
• AWS Cloud services

Highly Desirable

• AWS experience, particularly:
• S3
• ECS
• AppSync
• React development experience
• Kafka or other messaging technologies
• Commodities, energy trading, financial markets, or other Front Office trading environments

Contract Details

• London-based hybrid working (typically 3 days per week in the office)
• Competitive day rate
• Long-term programme of work
• Immediate interview availability

If you're a strong Python engineer looking to work on business-critical trading systems using modern cloud and web technologies, we'd be keen to hear from you.