Python Application Developer – Investment Banking Technology

Axiom Path•Charlotte, NC

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

Join a technology organization supporting a global financial institution and its investment banking operations. This team develops and maintains applications, risk platforms, and market-data integrations used across front-, middle-, and back-office functions. The environment is highly collaborative, bringing together developers, business users, analysts, project managers, infrastructure teams, DBAs, and application teams to deliver reliable technology solutions in a fast-paced financial environment. This is a hybrid opportunity based in Charlotte, North Carolina, for a long-term contract engagement spanning approximately 12 months. You will work on business-critical applications supporting investment banking and brokerage operations, gaining exposure to risk systems, market-data feeds, messaging platforms, APIs, and cloud technologies. You will collaborate directly with both technical teams and business stakeholders across the organization.

Requirements

5–7 years of professional software development experience, ideally supporting brokerage or capital-markets environments.
Hands-on development expertise with Python.
Strong SQL development skills, including complex queries, query simplification, troubleshooting, and performance optimization.
Experience developing solutions supporting front-, middle-, or back-office brokerage functions.
Strong understanding of algorithms, software-development methodologies, and application architecture.
Ability to independently analyze technical problems, evaluate alternatives, and make sound development decisions.
Strong communication skills with the ability to work effectively with both technical and business audiences.
Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
Collaborative approach, strong work ethic, and ability to build productive relationships with stakeholders and senior management.

Nice To Haves

Experience with IBM MQ or comparable messaging technology is preferred.
Experience developing or integrating REST and SOAP APIs is preferred.
Exposure to AWS and/or Azure is preferred.
C#/.NET development and broader system architecture experience are valuable additional qualifications.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, test, maintain, and support software applications supporting brokerage and investment banking operations.
Build and enhance applications primarily using Python and SQL, with exposure to C#/.NET.
Develop and optimize complex SQL queries with an emphasis on performance, maintainability, and efficiency.
Support risk systems, market-data feeds, and integrations between internal applications.
Develop and maintain application integrations using messaging technologies and APIs.
Partner with business users, business analysts, project managers, infrastructure engineers, database teams, and other development groups.
Contribute to software architecture and system-design decisions for scalable and maintainable solutions.
Manage development priorities across multiple initiatives and competing deadlines.