Python Engineer - Financial Control & AI Tooling

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

VCGTech in the United Kingdom is seeking a Python Software Engineer to help build the Independent Revaluation Infrastructure System (IRIS) and related financial control tooling. You’ll work with asset class and platform teams to deliver robust, scalable software that supports valuation, risk, and regulatory compliance.

You will design Python applications, implement automated tests, and contribute to secure, auditable production systems while advancing AI-assisted development and tooling.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in Python and advanced OO concepts.
• Experience with test-driven or test-heavy development.
• Understanding of security best practices and vulnerability remediation.
• Experience with agentic AI and prompt engineering, including LLM-based code development.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop Python applications within a large mono-repo using proprietary workflows
• Implement independent price verification and valuation adjustment workflows across asset classes
• Develop consensus pricing solutions integrating with external market data providers
• Configure distributed compute, job scheduling, analytics integrations, and cloud storage pipelines
• Write and maintain comprehensive unit, baseline, and parameterized tests
• Investigate and remediate security vulnerabilities; support audit remediation efforts
• Operate with a dry-run-first, confirm-before-modify, audit-everything approach on production systems
• Design and maintain AI developer tooling, including prompt engineering and LLM-assisted code generation

Skills

Python

OOP

Context managers

Generators

Functional programming

Test-driven development

Security best practices

Prompt engineering

Job description

VCGTech in the United Kingdom is seeking a Python Software Engineer to help build the Independent Revaluation Infrastructure System (IRIS) and related financial control tooling. You’ll work with asset class and platform teams to deliver robust, scalable software that supports valuation, risk, and regulatory compliance.

You will design Python applications, implement automated tests, and contribute to secure, auditable production systems while advancing AI-assisted development and tooling.