Python SDET Fixed Income & Swaps Post-Trade (5 roles total)

Zohorecruit; Charlotte (NC); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Axiom Path is seeking a Python-focused quality engineer to join a capital-markets tech team in Charlotte. You will build automation for Fixed Income and swaps, validate workflows from confirmations to settlements, and expand test coverage.

This W2 hybrid role requires 3 onsite days weekly; remote work is not available. Contract-to-convert with relocation considered.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of quality engineering, SDET, automation, or related technology experience.
• Strong Python programming capability.
• Hands-on Fixed Income and swaps/derivatives experience.
• Experience testing back-office trade-processing applications.
• Ability to explain a swap transaction from origination through confirmation, clearing, payment, and settlement.
• Knowledge of swap deal-ticket attributes, including notional, fixed/floating legs, reference indexes, spreads, dates, and currencies.
• Experience with automation frameworks and automated test development.
• Understanding of defect management and QA/QE practices.
• Strong communication skills and willingness to proactively gather information from developers and business analysts.
• Ability to work independently without relying on highly detailed instructions.
• Experience with Murex, Sophis, Summit, Charles River, Aladdin, or comparable derivatives platforms is valuable.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain Python automation supporting Fixed Income and swaps applications.
• Work within existing automation frameworks and expand automated test coverage.
• Validate swaps through confirmation, clearing, payments, settlement, and regulatory workflows.
• Test deal-ticket attributes and ensure transaction information moves accurately through downstream systems.
• Perform defect investigation, triage, and root-cause analysis in collaboration with developers and business analysts.
• Validate changes across complex back-office trade-processing workflows.
• Gather requirements through discussions with technical and business stakeholders when formal documentation is limited.
• Help strengthen quality practices throughout the software development lifecycle.

Skills

5+ years exp

Python programming

Fixed Income/derivatives

Automation frameworks

QA/QE practices

Communication

Independent work

Derivatives platforms (Murex/Sophis/SI

Tools

Murex

Sophis

Summit

Charles River

Aladdin

Job description

Charlotte, United States | Posted on 06/22/2026

Axiom Path is an AI-first recruiting and staffing firm delivering RPO, MSP, and direct-hire solutions to enterprise clients across the U.S. Our team of experienced recruiters, supported by purpose-built automation, moves faster and communicates better so clients get qualified talent sooner and candidates get a clear, responsive process from first contact to start date.

Job Description

Be Part Of A High-Performing Team

Join a specialized capital-markets quality engineering team responsible for technology supporting sophisticated Fixed Income and derivatives transactions. The group works closely with developers, business analysts, and trading-domain specialists to ensure critical swaps workflows operate accurately across interconnected back-office platforms.

This environment combines practical Python development with deep financial-product knowledge. Engineers work directly with transaction workflows involving confirmations, clearing, payments, settlements, regulatory processes, and other downstream functions supporting institutional derivatives activity.

What's In Store For You

• Engagement: W2 only (no C2C/1099).
  
• Hybrid position in Charlotte, North Carolina, with three days onsite each week.
  
• Remote work is not available.
  
• Relocation candidates can be considered when they are fully committed to relocating.
  
• Contract-to-convert opportunity within a strategic capital-markets technology organization.
  
• Exposure to complex Fixed Income and swaps processing across mission-critical financial systems.
  

How You Will Make An Impact

• Build and maintain Python automation supporting Fixed Income and swaps applications.
  
• Work within existing automation frameworks and expand automated test coverage.
  
• Validate swaps through confirmation, clearing, payments, settlement, and regulatory workflows.
  
• Test deal-ticket attributes and ensure transaction information moves accurately through downstream systems.
  
• Perform defect investigation, triage, and root-cause analysis in collaboration with developers and business analysts.
  
• Validate changes across complex back-office trade-processing workflows.
  
• Gather requirements through discussions with technical and business stakeholders when formal documentation is limited.
  
• Help strengthen quality practices throughout the software development lifecycle.
  

Requirements

Do you bring proven success in Python quality engineering and swaps processing?

• 5 7+ years of quality engineering, SDET, automation, application development, or related technology experience.
  
• Strong practical Python programming capability.
  
• Hands-on Fixed Income and swaps/derivatives experience.
  
• Experience testing or supporting back-office trade-processing applications.
  
• Ability to explain a swap transaction from origination through confirmation, clearing, payment, and settlement.
  
• Knowledge of actual swap deal-ticket attributes, including notional, fixed and floating legs, reference indexes, spreads, dates, payment schedules, and currency.
  
• Experience with automation frameworks and automated test development.
  
• Understanding of defect management and defect triage.
  
• Knowledge of QA/QE practices and how quality integrates into application-development delivery.
  
• Strong communication skills and willingness to proactively gather information from developers and business analysts.
  
• Ability to work independently without relying on highly detailed instructions.
  
• Experience with Murex, Sophis, Summit, Charles River, Aladdin, or comparable proprietary derivatives platforms is valuable.