Job Description
Job Description
Contract Python UI Developer
MUST be local to New York City, 5 Days Onsite
Duties & Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and implement enterprise-grade RESTful API integrations supporting Structured Products and Derivatives businesses.
- Build seamless connectivity between internal pricing, trading, and risk platforms and external vendor platforms including SIMON, Luma, HALO, and similar structured products ecosystems.
- Collaborate with Front Office Trading, Sales, Quantitative Research, Product Control, and Technology teams to define integration requirements and deliver production-ready solutions.
- Design and maintain API contracts, payload mappings, data transformation frameworks, and integration specifications.
- Implement secure authentication and authorization mechanisms using OAuth2, API Keys, Bearer Tokens, and related security standards.
- Develop scalable and resilient distributed systems capable of supporting high-volume trading and transaction workflows.
- Implement comprehensive monitoring, logging, alerting, retry mechanisms, and error handling frameworks to ensure operational stability.
- Support the complete trade lifecycle, including trade capture, pricing, execution, allocation, and downstream processing.
- Participate in architecture reviews, code reviews, production support, and system optimization initiatives.
- Work closely with infrastructure and DevOps teams to support deployment automation and platform reliability.
- Produce technical documentation, integration specifications, and support procedures.
Required Skills
Technical Skills
- Strong experience developing RESTful APIs and enterprise integration solutions.
- Expertise with API design, implementation, and lifecycle management.
Experience with:
- OAuth2 Authentication
- Bearer Token Authentication
- API Key Security Models
- Strong knowledge of JSON, XML, and API payload design.
- Experience implementing:
- Error handling frameworks
- Retry logic
- Idempotency controls
- Monitoring and observability solutions
- Experience building distributed and event-driven systems.
- Strong understanding of application security and secure communication protocols.
- Experience working within cloud-enabled and enterprise application environments.
Capital Markets Experience
- Strong knowledge of Structured Products.
- Experience with Derivatives products and workflows.
- Understanding of the end-to-end Trade Lifecycle.
- Experience supporting front-office trading platforms.
- Direct experience integrating with one or more vendor platforms such as:
- SIMON
- Luma
- HALO
Soft Skills
- Ability to work effectively with Trading, Sales, Quantitative Research, and Technology teams.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Proven ability to deliver solutions within fast-paced front-office environments.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working within investment banking, broker-dealer, or capital markets environments.
- Familiarity with structured products issuance, distribution, and lifecycle management platforms.
- Experience with microservices architecture and cloud-native integration patterns.
- Knowledge of market data, pricing systems, and risk platforms.
- Understanding of regulatory and operational controls within financial services.
Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Finance, or a related discipline.
- Master's degree in a technical or quantitative field preferred.
- Relevant industry certifications are a plus.