Senior 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