Python & AWS Developer - Financial Services (Hybrid)

Cipher Recruitment; City of Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 90,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Base salary + super

Job summary

Cipher Recruitment is seeking a Python and AWS Developer based in Melbourne for a permanent full‑time role. The position combines on‑premise leadership with 2–3 days per week in the office and cloud‑first delivery across financial services projects.

You will build high‑performance financial applications in Python, leverage AWS for scalable cloud solutions, and integrate APIs with external financial data providers. Prior trading‑systems exposure is a plus.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of Python development experience, ideally in financial services.
• Strong AWS experience with hands-on work (Lambda, S3, EC2, RDS).
• Bonus: experience in financial services trading platforms or data processing.
• Experience building/consuming APIs with third‑party financial data providers.
• SQL and NoSQL experience for financial data in relational and non-relational databases.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and cloud automation tools; Git is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Develop and optimize high‑performance financial applications in Python.
• Engineer cloud solutions on AWS for scalable, secure financial systems.
• Integrate APIs with third‑party financial data providers.
• Work with SQL/NoSQL databases to manage financial data.
• Ensure performance, security, and reliability of applications in the cloud.

Skills

Python development

AWS development

RESTful APIs

CI/CD

Git

Trading systems knowledge

Tools

Lambda

S3

EC2

RDS

PostgreSQL

MySQL

DynamoDB

Job description

Cipher Recruitment is seeking a Python and AWS Developer based in Melbourne for a permanent full‑time role. The position combines on‑premise leadership with 2–3 days per week in the office and cloud‑first delivery across financial services projects.

You will build high‑performance financial applications in Python, leverage AWS for scalable cloud solutions, and integrate APIs with external financial data providers. Prior trading‑systems exposure is a plus.