Python Core Developer

Oxford Knight; England; On-site; GBP 144,000 - 176,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Profit sharing bonus

Collaborative culture

Small team with large AUM

Job summary

Oxford Knight is seeking an outstanding Python Developer to join a world-class Fixed Income trading pod. You will work directly with a PM/trader to balance long-term stability with the risk-taking needs of the desk, primarily using Python and cloud/container tech.

You’ll contribute to production stability, data pipelines, and infrastructure, while mentoring others and turning ideas into scalable production code for a high-autonomy team.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5+ years’ development experience.
• Deep understanding of Python.
• Experience managing SQL databases, especially time series data.
• Technical background in STEM; finance not required.
• Advanced STEM degree (Masters/PhD).
• Previous Fixed Income experience desirable.

Responsibilities

• Ensure stability of daily production including data ingestion and processing.
• Maintain the team’s infrastructure (SQL databases, Linux servers, CI, services).
• Enforce best coding practices and guide team members.
• Turn user ideas into production-level code for risk takers.

Skills

Python

SQL

Time series data

Fixed Income

Math/CS background

Education

Master's or PhD in STEM

Tools

Linux

CI/CD

Job description

Salary: £160,000 base + profit share bonus (TC can be north of £500k)

Job Description:

One of the world’s most prestigious hedge funds is looking for an outstanding Python Developer to join one of their their Fixed Income trading pods.

You’ll join a small fixed-income PM team of 10 that enjoys huge autonomy and is looking to grow their risk-taking. Working directly with the PM/trader, you’ll support the team’s entire tech stack. You will have to demonstrate ability to make the trade-offs between long-term stability and sustainability of the tech stack and the immediate needs of the risk takers. Tech stack is primarily Python and they make heavy use of cloud resources and containerization to get things done.

Responsibilities:

• Stability of daily production (incl. data ingestion and processing, production services)
• Maintain the team’s infrastructure (SQL databases, Linux servers, CI, services, etc.)
• Enforce best practices in coding and provide guidance to other team members
• Turn user ideas into production level code and help risk-takers write better code

Skills and Experience Required

• Minimum 5+ years’ development experience (ideally more!)
• Deep understanding of Python
• Experience managing SQL databases (in particular dealing with time series data)
• Technical background (Maths/ Comp Sci/Engineering) Finance is not a hard requirement
• Advanced academic background in STEM, e.g. Masters or PhD
• Previous experience in Fixed Income

Benefits & Incentives

• Significant salary + a bonus tied to profits / trading strategy success
• Very collaborative and friendly culture where ideas from everyone are implemented
• Small team with large AUM

Whilst we carefully review all applications, to all jobs, due to the high volume of applications we receive it is not possible to respond to those who have not been successful.