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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Software Engineer (Fixed Term) - **Company:** Fideres - **Location:** London, UK - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** £65,644.0 - **Contract:** Temporary contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Big Data, Databases, Continuous Integration, Web Scraping, Data Infrastructure, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Software Design Patterns, DevOps, Python (Programming Language), Scrum Methodology, Software Architecture, Web Services, Pulumi, Cloud Platform System, DevOps Tools - Open-source, Git, Containerization, Information Technology, Software Library, Docker - **Published:** July 19, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5807192009 ## About the Role As a Senior Software Engineer, you will apply experienced hands-on technical knowledge, vision and an innovative mindset to help us expand, build and maintain the data infrastructure and software libraries needed to support the quantitative research of our economists. You will have experience gathering requirements and contributing to sprint planning. We make use of kanban and sprint cycles to plan and stay on top of output. Our target stack relies heavily on Python, containerisation, infrastructure as code, CI/CD and the Azure cloud. We work across the full spectrum of data sourcing and ETL to front-end delivery. Projects areas include the front office and internal tooling. Our short term goals include migrating on-prem tooling to cloud-native infrastructure, improving our API infrastructure and development platform tooling to enable fast, frictionless deployment of new projects., * A keen interest or background in financial markets and/or economics, and a strong belief in fair and transparent markets * A strong record of academic achievement with a relevant degree (computer science, economics or finance) * Responsive to stakeholder needs. Has excellent problem-solving and quantitative skills, including the ability to disaggregate issues, identify root causes and recommend solutions * Self motivated to perform in a demanding business environment and to assume a wide range of responsibilities * Takes ownership/accountability, is focused on delivery and committed to seeing projects through to their close * Excellent written and verbal communication, including the ability to explain complex topics to non-specialists * Has integrity, initiative, and is not afraid to express an opinion and offer new solutions Technology skills required for the role: * Python - the central language in our stack * Experience working with multiple databases, relational and document-based. * Comfort working with large data sets, 100> terabytes * Experience designing, developing and deploying performant APIs * Experience automating DevOps via platform tooling * Experience with DevOps tooling: Git, CI/CD, package repositories, credentials stores * Knowledge of container technologies such as Docker * Experience developing for cloud-first deployments (AWS/Azure/GCP) using infrastructure as code tooling (e.g. Pulumi) Desirable: * Exposure to complex financial data * Extraction of data from semi-structured sources such as PDFs * Knowledge of web-scraping frameworks and design patterns ## Description This role will be fixed term for 6 to 12 months, depending on the successful candidate's preference, with the possibility of extension. The position is based in our London office., Some notable responsibilities will include: * Planning and execution. Breaking project work down and able to accurately estimate task effort. * Work collaboratively with our economists to build and develop tools and systems to support our quantitative research * Developing and deploying API services * Designing and developing web scraping infrastructure * Code design and review feedback for economists and junior developers * Coach quantitative economists and junior developers, collecting user feedback, and suggesting features/updates * Contribute to growing engineering standards and practices * Contributing to technical, client-facing projects, as an example by managing ETL process and/or optimizing algorithm performance for analysis * Contribute to the team ownership of production services, troubleshooting where necessary * Own technical direction, comfortable making architectural decisions, leading project delivery, To apply, you will need to send us your CV and cover letter via the application form below. Please note that we consider a thoughtful and well considered cover letter to be an integral part of our application process. Pre-Interview Assessments Depending on the role you are applying for, you may be asked to complete a pre-interview assessment relevant to the role. This allows us to see if you have some of the necessary technical skills required for the role, and it can also give you an idea of some of the skills that would be required. Interviews For the majority of our roles, we have a three stage interview process. The main purpose of our interviews is to further assess your technical skills, your communication skills (team and client) and make sure that you have sufficiently researched what we do and the role itself. More generally it is a chance for us to get to know each other better. 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