Senior Python Software Engineer

Job description

Validus is looking for a Senior Backend Software Engineer to join our technology team, building Horizon , our award-winning platform used by alternative asset managers for trade execution, portfolio management and risk analysis . You will work alongside quants, frontend engineers and financial specialists to build systems that power investment decision-making across private equity, private debt and real estate markets . What You’ll Work On: - Designing and building backend services and APIs powering the Horizon platform - Building cloud-native systems on AWS , including event-driven microservices and gRPC services - Designing data models for complex financial instruments and portfolios - Integrating market data and client datasets into our platform - Developing high-performance services in Rust alongside our Python services - Working closely with quant, risk and capital markets teams to translate financial requirements into robust systems - Improving the performance, observability and reliability of our platform Tech Stack: We use modern technologies including: - Python (FastAPI, Django) - Rust for performance-critical services - AWS - gRPC & event-driven architectures - MySQL, Mon...