Principal Python Engineer (capital markets)

Principal Python Engineer, London, Europe's Largest Equities Exchange

We are working exclusively with one of the world's largest exchange operators on a Principal Python Engineer hire in London. This is a senior individual contributor role within a small, highly skilled engineering team building and expanding the data pipeline and event streaming infrastructure that powers the largest equities exchange in Europe.

The Role

You will lead complex engineering projects end to end, working closely with business development and sales teams to deliver new products and features, and mentoring engineers across Europe and the US. The team takes software craftsmanship seriously — testable, maintainable code, pair programming and TDD are core to how they work.

Tech Stack

Expert Python, advanced SQL, deep Linux knowledge

PostgreSQL, Snowflake

Apache Kafka, Apache Airflow

Django, Flask or...