Python SDET Fixed Income & Swaps Post-Trade (5 roles total)

Axiom Path • Charlotte, NC

140d • Hybrid

About The Position

Join a specialized capital-markets quality engineering team responsible for technology supporting sophisticated Fixed Income and derivatives transactions. The group works closely with developers, business analysts, and trading-domain specialists to ensure critical swaps workflows operate accurately across interconnected back-office platforms. This environment combines practical Python development with deep financial-product knowledge. Engineers work directly with transaction workflows involving confirmations, clearing, payments, settlements, regulatory processes, and other downstream functions supporting institutional derivatives activity.

Requirements

• 5 7+ years of quality engineering, SDET, automation, application development, or related technology experience.
• Strong practical Python programming capability.
• Hands-on Fixed Income and swaps/derivatives experience.
• Experience testing or supporting back-office trade-processing applications.
• Ability to explain a swap transaction from origination through confirmation, clearing, payment, and settlement.
• Knowledge of actual swap deal-ticket attributes, including notional, fixed and floating legs, reference indexes, spreads, dates, payment schedules, and currency.
• Experience with automation frameworks and automated test development.
• Understanding of defect management and defect triage.
• Knowledge of QA/QE practices and how quality integrates into application-development delivery.
• Strong communication skills and willingness to proactively gather information from developers and business analysts.
• Ability to work independently without relying on highly detailed instructions.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Murex, Sophis, Summit, Charles River, Aladdin, or comparable proprietary derivatives platforms is valuable.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain Python automation supporting Fixed Income and swaps applications.
• Work within existing automation frameworks and expand automated test coverage.
• Validate swaps through confirmation, clearing, payments, settlement, and regulatory workflows.
• Test deal-ticket attributes and ensure transaction information moves accurately through downstream systems.
• Perform defect investigation, triage, and root-cause analysis in collaboration with developers and business analysts.
• Validate changes across complex back-office trade-processing workflows.
• Gather requirements through discussions with technical and business stakeholders when formal documentation is limited.
• Help strengthen quality practices throughout the software development lifecycle.

Benefits

• W2 only (no C2C/1099).
• Contract-to-convert opportunity within a strategic capital-markets technology organization.
• Exposure to complex Fixed Income and swaps processing across mission-critical financial systems.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed