Senior Python Engineer — FinTech Data Pipelines & APIs

Validus Risk Management Limited; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus package

Health care

Retirement plans

Support for professional qualification

Job summary

Validus Risk Management Limited is seeking a Python Software Engineer to join the Client Success Team. You will own small-to-medium scope enhancements from idea to production, driving measurable business impact and touching data pipelines, APIs, and frontend components.

You will collaborate with business leads, tech teams, and clients to translate financial and operational requirements into scalable solutions, while mentoring others and ensuring high technical quality.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of professional Python software development experience.
• Degree in a quantitative discipline such as Mathematics, Physics, Financial Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Strong experience in Python used for data processing and financial applications.
• Full stack development experience across backend services, APIs, databases, and modern frontend frameworks.
• Experience designing and maintaining data pipelines and integrations, including APIs, SFTP, and structured market or portfolio datasets.
• Experience leading small-to-medium scale software projects with high accountability and ownership.
• Exposure to financial markets, including FX and interest rate products.
• Experience communicating complex technical and financial concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Eligible to work in the UK.

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end delivery of high-impact features and enhancements for Validus Horizon, from technical design through deployment and post-release feedback.
• Own multiple concurrent CST initiatives, ensuring timely execution with clear stakeholder communication and transparency.
• Design and implement full stack solutions (backend services, APIs, data pipelines, and frontend components) aligned with Horizon architecture and best practices.
• Build and maintain robust ETL processes (data ingestion, validation, transformation, reporting, SFTP/API integrations) to enhance data availability, and client workflows.
• Collaborate closely with business stakeholders to refine requirements, define acceptance criteria, and quantify business value.
• Contribute to technical scoping and effort estimation as part of the CST ranking and prioritisation process.
• Improve system performance, reliability, and scalability across Horizon components (e.g., RiskView, TradeView, PortfolioView).
• Act as a technical mentor within the CST, promoting high standards in code quality, documentation, testing, and delivery.
• Support stakeholder and client meetings by presenting technical solutions, trade-offs, and implementation roadmaps.

Skills

Python

Data processing

Financial applications

Full stack development

APIs

Databases

ETL / data pipelines

SFTP integrations

Leadership / ownership

Stakeholder communication

Education

Degree in Mathematics, Physics, Financial Engineering, Computer Science

MSc in STEM field

Tools

Python 3.x

SQL

Git

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Validus Risk Management Limited is seeking a Python Software Engineer to join the Client Success Team. You will own small-to-medium scope enhancements from idea to production, driving measurable business impact and touching data pipelines, APIs, and frontend components.

You will collaborate with business leads, tech teams, and clients to translate financial and operational requirements into scalable solutions, while mentoring others and ensuring high technical quality.