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# Software Engineer - Risk

- **Company:** Qrt
- **Location:** UK
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Airflow, Amazon Web Services, Software Quality, Continuous Integration, Data Systems, Software Debugging, Programming Tools, Distributed Systems, Monitoring of Systems, Python (Programming Language), Object-Oriented Software Development, Software Maintenance, Prometheus, Software Engineering, Grafana, Backend, Fastapi, Containerization, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Apache Kafka, Restful APIs, Terraform, Data Pipelines, Docker
- **Published:** September 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/software-engineer-risk-qube-research-technologies-8719666

## About the Role

* Excellent Python development skills
 * Strong understanding of object-oriented design and software engineering principles
 * Demonstrable experience designing, building and supporting high-quality production systems
 * Good knowledge and experience of developing REST APIs and backend services
 * Strong SQL knowledge
 * Experience with distributed systems, asynchronous processing and data pipelines
 * Ability to test, debug and optimise software with a strong focus on reliability and performance
 * Experience with containerisation and CI/CD practices
 * Demonstrable ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with technical and business stakeholders
 * A passion for building robust, maintainable software and continuously improving engineering practices

Desirable to have experience or a willingness to learn in the following areas:

 * Cloud-native technologies, including AWS, Docker, Kubernetes and infrastructure automation
 * Monitoring and observability tooling such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry or similar technologies
 * Modern backend and data technologies such as FastAPI, Kafka, Airflow, Terraform or gRPC
 * Financial markets or another data-intensive, low-latency environment
 * Quantitative analytics, trading or risk platforms
 * AI-enabled engineering solutions, retrieval-augmented applications or agentic workflows
 * Modern AI-assisted development tools as part of the software engineering lifecycle

## Description

We are seeking an experienced Software Engineer to work within our Risk Team to help design and build the next generation of our risk platform. The role is expected to involve the following activities:

 * Design, develop and maintain production-grade Python applications and services.
 * Build scalable APIs, distributed systems and data pipelines supporting risk analytics and business workflows.
 * Design and develop cloud-native applications using modern software engineering practices.
 * Collaborate closely with Risk Managers and Quantitative Researchers to productionise analytical models and enhance existing platforms.
 * Design reliable, observable and maintainable software with a strong focus on performance, scalability and operational excellence.
 * Contribute to architecture discussions and continuously improve engineering standards, tooling and development practices across the team.
 * Leverage modern AI-assisted development tools to improve software quality, developer productivity and delivery.


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