Python Application Developer - Asset Management

About the role

We are seeking a Python Application Developer to join a London‑based asset management firm’s technology team. The role offers exposure to investment and operational systems, data platforms and emerging AI‑assisted engineering practices within financial services.

Key responsibilities

• Develop and enhance backend and user‑facing applications supporting investment and business processes.
• Design, implement and maintain data ingestion, transformation and validation workflows.
• Work with relational databases, write and optimise SQL queries.
• Contribute to data integration and ETL processes across multiple systems.
• Improve performance, stability and scalability of existing services.
• Leverage AI‑assisted development tools to boost productivity and code quality.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders and third‑party vendors.
• Participate in testing, deployment and CI/CD pipelines.

Required profile

• 2–5 years of commercial software development experience.
• Strong backend development experience using Python.
• Experience with modern JavaScript frameworks, preferably React.
• Solid SQL skills and understanding of relational database design.
• Exposure to data integration, ETL or ingestion pipelines.
• Ability to work in a fast‑paced, delivery‑focused environment.
• Strong communication and problem‑solving abilities.

Required skills

• Python
• React (or other modern JavaScript frameworks)
• SQL
• Relational databases
• Data ingestion / transformation / validation
• ETL processes
• AI development tooling
• Azure DevOps / CI‑CD pipelines
• Cloud infrastructure
• C# (nice to have)