Python Engineer for Macro & Fixed Income Data Platform

Selby Jennings; City Of London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Selby Jennings in London is seeking a Python Engineer to join a Macro & Fixed Income Data Technology team, building a modern data platform that supports investment decision-making. You will design scalable data pipelines and work closely with portfolio managers, researchers, economists, and tech teams.

Join a collaborative environment at the forefront of financial technology, delivering high-impact data infrastructure across global markets.

Qualifications

• Strong Python development experience in a backend engineering environment.
• Experience supporting trading, investment, market data, or research platforms.
• Expertise building data platforms, data lakes, warehouses, ETL pipelines, or large-scale data infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Design and build core components of a next-generation macro and fixed income data platform.
• Develop scalable data pipelines covering ingestion, ETL, quality control, storage, and API consumption.
• Partner with portfolio managers, researchers, strategists, and technology teams to deliver business-critical solutions.
• Drive improvements in platform performance, stability, scalability, and reliability.
• Contribute to the evolution of cloud-native data architecture and engineering best practices.

Skills

Python

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Spark

Delta Lake

Athena

Job description

Selby Jennings in London is seeking a Python Engineer to join a Macro & Fixed Income Data Technology team, building a modern data platform that supports investment decision-making. You will design scalable data pipelines and work closely with portfolio managers, researchers, economists, and tech teams.

Join a collaborative environment at the forefront of financial technology, delivering high-impact data infrastructure across global markets.