Real-time Risk Platform Engineer (Python)

Winston Fox; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 500,000 - 700,000; Full time

Job summary

Global Hedge Fund in London is seeking an exceptional Software Engineer to join the Risk technology team. This is not a traditional software role; you will own and shape real-time data pipelines, distributed systems, and cloud-native infrastructure to support risk and investment decision making.

You will work directly with Risk and Treasury users, build high-performance platforms, and help raise engineering standards across the function.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional experience.
• Exceptional programming ability in Python and SQL.
• Experience with distributed systems, system design and architecture.
• Experience with messaging/streaming technologies such as Kafka.
• Data engineering experience: pipelines, relational databases and large-scale data processing.

Responsibilities

• Designing and evolving high-performance data pipelines and real-time applications.
• Engineering systems capable of real-time processing and horizontal scale-out.
• Working with distributed systems, messaging and event-driven architectures.
• Building robust data platforms across databases, pipelines and Lakehouse tech.
• Improving performance, resilience, observability and reliability of critical systems.

Skills

Python

SQL

Distributed systems

System design

Communication

Leadership experience

Project ownership

Education

CS degree from a reputable university

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Kafka

Airflow

Dagster

Job description

Global Hedge Fund in London is seeking an exceptional Software Engineer to join the Risk technology team. This is not a traditional software role; you will own and shape real-time data pipelines, distributed systems, and cloud-native infrastructure to support risk and investment decision making.

You will work directly with Risk and Treasury users, build high-performance platforms, and help raise engineering standards across the function.