Senior Back-end Software Engineer, Python, Rust

🕒 November 4, 2025

🏢🏡 London – Hybrid

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Validus Risk Management

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51 - 200 employees

💸 Finance

💳 Fintech

💼 Consulting

💰 Private Equity Round on 2020-05

Finance • Fintech • Consulting

Validus Risk Management is an independent market risk advisory firm specialising in the management of currency, interest rate, and commodity price risk. The company employs a hands-on advisory approach and innovative technology solutions to help clients navigate and manage financial risk. Validus provides customised risk management solutions, enhances risk transparency, and facilitates effective hedging transactions for clients ranging from SMEs to multinational corporations and pension funds. With access to expert advisory services at a fraction of the cost of maintaining an in-house function, Validus executes over 3,000 trades monthly, amounting to more than $330 billion in hedging volume annually.

📋 Description

• Engage with external stakeholders and clients to understand their needs and design solutions for capturing and integrating their data for it to be utilised on Horizon. • Work closely with internal stakeholders, including Validus’s quant, risk advisory, and global capital market desks to understand their needs, gather requirements and propose new solutions. • Build a strong understanding of FX and interest rate products, the related financial markets, and market data sources. • Support ad hoc maintenance of our applications and scheduled processes. • Implement cloud-native solutions on AWS, ranging from HTTP APIs to event-driven microservices utilising gRPC. Solutions are built in Rust and Python (with Django/FastAPI web frameworks). • Design data models for elegantly capturing the business domain of complex trades across multiple asset classes. You will be exposed to several databases, but the primary database for portfolios (investments, leverages and derivatives) will be MySQL and MongoDB. • Build out performance-critical systems written in Rust, and contribute efficient, testable and maintainable code to our Python codebase with performance and observability in mind.

🎯 Requirements

• - The ideal candidate will likely hold a Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science, mathematics, finance or a related field. • - Experience with financial or market risk modelling is a plus, but not required. The role is heavily finance focused, so a keen interest is expected. • - Abstract thinking, an interest in designing financial object models. • - Experience with one or more modern programming languages. We mostly use Rust and Python, but we are keen to speak with strong engineers from any background. • - Experience with databases. We use MongoDB, MySQL and DynamoDB, but experience with other database technologies would also be valuable. • - Experience with AWS is a plus, but not required. • - Curiosity to explore new technologies. We are constantly looking for potential technologies to improve our platform. • **Preferred Qualifications/Experience:** • - Experience with financial risk management software or platforms. • - Knowledge of AWS computing platforms and services.

🏖️ Benefits

• Validus Risk Management is an independent technology-enabled advisory firm specialising in the management of FX, interest rate and other market risks. We work with institutional investors, fund managers, and portfolio companies to design and implement strategies to measure, manage and monitor financial market risk, using a market-tested combination of specialist consulting services, trade execution and innovative risk technology.****Working at Validus can offer an exciting opportunity for both personal development and professional growth. Share in our mission to become the largest and most respected specialist provider of financial market risk services in the world. Notable benefits include a competitive remuneration package (salary + bonus), health care, retirement plans, and financial support towards professional qualifications. • Validus is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. • #2509