Senior Python Backend Engineer - AI Trading Platform - R&D Team

Our client, a leading global financial institution, is building a brand-new AI-driven trading and market infrastructure platform and is hiring experienced Python backend engineers to join a newly formed R&D engineering team in London.

This is a greenfield opportunity focused on designing and building scalable, low-latency systems from the ground up across real-time trading infrastructure, analytics, and market data services.

The team is being built with significant financial backing and long-term strategic investment, offering the opportunity to work in a fast-moving engineering environment with the stability and scale of a major global institution behind it.

The technology stack includes Python, FastAPI, Kafka, Redis, Postgre

SQL, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Async

IO, gRPC, Web Sockets, Celery, Terraform, Prometheus, and Grafana.

They are looking for engineers with strong experience building distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and production-grade backend platforms within high-performance environments.

Experience with in investment banking, electronic trading, fintech, or low-latency systems is highly desirable.

The role offers strong compensation, hybrid working in London, and the chance to help shape a newly established engineering function from the beginning.