Senior Python Software Engineer - Toronto

Validus Risk Management; Toronto; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Travel insurance

Learning & development allowance

Performance bonus

Job summary

Validus Risk Management is seeking a financial software engineer to join the back-end team. You will design and maintain systems powering Horizon, a growing tech platform for trading, risk analysis, and portfolio management.

The role involves working with Rust and Python, AWS, and several databases to model complex trades across asset classes. Collaboration with quants, risk desks, and frontend teams is essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS or related field.
• Strong experience with Rust and Python.
• Experience with AWS cloud services.
• Experience designing and building backend systems for financial data.

Responsibilities

• Engage with clients to capture data needs and design solutions for Horizon.
• Collaborate with quant, risk advisory, and desks to gather requirements and propose solutions.
• Build understanding of FX and interest rate products and market data sources.
• Support maintenance of applications and scheduled processes.
• Implement cloud-native solutions on AWS with Rust and Python (Django/FastAPI).
• Design data models for complex trades across asset classes using MySQL, MongoDB, and DynamoDB.
• Develop high-performance, testable, maintainable Rust/Python code with observability.

Skills

Rust

Python

SQL

Cloud computing

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

MongoDB

MySQL

DynamoDB

Django

FastAPI

gRPC

Job description

Validus is looking for afinancialsoftware engineer to join ourback-endteam. This teamis responsible fordesigning,implementingandmaintainingthe systems and services powering the rapidly growing, award-winning technology offering at Validus.

Theback-endteam is part of the broader technology team working in collaboration with quants,frontendand platform engineers. Our teams work together to grow ouraward-winning techplatform, Horizon. Horizoncomprisesmultiple applications for trade execution, portfoliomanagementand risk analysis for alternative asset managers in various domains, such as private equity, privatedebtand real estate.

Key Responsibilities:

• Engage with external stakeholders and clients to understand their needs and design solutions for capturing and integrating their data for it to be utilised on Horizon.
• Work closely with internal stakeholders, including Validus’s quant, risk advisory, and global capital market desks to understand their needs, gather requirements and proposenew solutions.
• Build a strong understanding of FX and interest rate products, the related financial markets, and market data sources.
• Support ad hoc maintenance of our applications and scheduled processes.
• Implement cloud-native solutions on AWS, ranging from HTTP APIs to event-driven microservicesutilisinggRPC.Solutions are built in Rust and Python (withDjango/FastAPIweb frameworks).
• Design data models for elegantly capturing the business domain of complex trades across multiple asset classes. You will be exposed to several databases, but the primary database for portfolios (investments,leveragesand derivatives) will be MySQL and MongoDB.
• Build outperformance-critical systemswritten in Rust, and contributeefficient,testableand maintainable codeto ourPythoncodebasewith performance and observability in mind.
• The ideal candidate willlikely holdaBachelor'sdegree or higher in computer science, mathematics,financeor a related field.
• Experience with financial or market risk modelling is aplus butnotrequired. The role is heavily finance focused, so a keen interest is expected.
• Abstract thinking, an interest in designing financial object models.
• Experience with one or more modern programming languages. We mostly useRust andPython, but we are keen to speak with strong engineers from any background.
• Experience with databases. We use MongoDB,MySQLand DynamoDB, but experience with other database technologies would also be valuable.
• Experience with AWS is aplus butnotrequired.
• Curiosity to explorenew technologies. We are constantly looking for potential technologies to improve our platform.

Preferred Qualifications/Experience:

• Experience with financial risk management software or platforms.
• Knowledge of AWS computing platforms and services.
• Validus assesses market data to ensure a competitive compensation package for our employees. The base salary for this position is expected to be between $100,000 and $150,000 per year at the commencement of employment. However, base salary if hired will be determined on an individualised basis, including as to experience and market location, and is only part of the Validus total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may also include, generous bonus, and Company-sponsored benefit programs.
• Performance bonus linked to agreed success criteria - paid semi annually
• 20 days’ holiday (increasing to 25 with tenure) plus bank holidays
• Private health insurance (including dental, optical and mental health)
• Travel insurance
• Learning & development allowance and support for professional qualifications
• No AI is used to screen, assess or select applicants

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