Python Backend Engineer for Finance Data & AWS

Method Resourcing; West of England; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension contributions

Life insurance

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Job summary

Method Resourcing is partnering with a central Bristol energy trading tech team to hire a Junior/Mid-Level Backend Software Engineer. You will build Python-based backend services, craft data processing pipelines and optimize SQL for large financial datasets, with deployments to AWS ECS.

You’ll contribute to risk, reconciliation and reporting tools while collaborating with finance, risk and compliance teams to define robust technical solutions. This role is office-based in central Bristol.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in Python for backend development.
• Strong SQL skills and relational database understanding.
• Experience with financial data processing, reconciliation or reporting is a plus.
• Good problem-solving and analytical abilities.
• Ability to communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain backend applications using Python.
• Build data processing pipelines for financial and trade data insights.
• Write and optimise SQL queries for large datasets.
• Develop automated tools to identify discrepancies in financial records and risk calculations.
• Collaborate with data engineers on data storage and accessibility.
• Deploy backend services to AWS ECS with containerised tech.
• Implement monitoring, logging and alerting for reliability.
• Support production applications and resolve issues.
• Work with finance, risk and compliance to translate business needs into technical solutions.

Skills

Python

SQL

Financial data handling

Problem solving

Communication

Tools

AWS ECS

Docker

Git

GitHub Actions

CI/CD

Job description

Method Resourcing is partnering with a central Bristol energy trading tech team to hire a Junior/Mid-Level Backend Software Engineer. You will build Python-based backend services, craft data processing pipelines and optimize SQL for large financial datasets, with deployments to AWS ECS.

You’ll contribute to risk, reconciliation and reporting tools while collaborating with finance, risk and compliance teams to define robust technical solutions. This role is office-based in central Bristol.