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# Senior Python Engineer - ETF Investment Technology

- **Company:** Wave Works, Inc.
- **Location:** Mundelein, IL, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** FactSet, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Amazon S3, Continuous Integration, Identity and Access Management, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, NumPy, Backtesting, Software Engineering, Pandas, Amazon Relational Database Service, Cloudwatch
- **Published:** November 9, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.thejobnetwork.com/job/721353a0-3ff6-44f4-bebc-dcec41d83277/senior-python-engineer-etf-investment-technology

## About the Role

* 7+ years in software engineering, including recent ownership of production applications in asset management or capital markets
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 * Strong production Python skills that go beyond notebooks, with pandas, Polars or NumPy
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 * Production PostgreSQL experience
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 * Hands-on AWS experience, for example ECS/EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS, CloudWatch, IAM, Secrets Manager and infrastructure as code
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 * A track record of modernising live, business-critical systems incrementally
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 * Solid API, integration, CI/CD, testing, security and observability practices
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 * The ability to work credibly with front-office users in an onsite, iterative environment
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 * Clear written and verbal communication
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 * Quantitative finance knowledge, such as portfolio analytics, optimisation, backtesting, risk or attribution
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 * Experience consolidating desk-built tools into an institutionally supported platform
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 * Experience working across teams in the US and UK
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