

Apex Systems
Equity Derivatives Specialist
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This role is for an Equity Derivatives Specialist, contracting for 1 to 2 years at £"pay rate" in Bromley, UK. Requires 7+ years in tech, 3+ in equities derivatives, Python expertise, SQL, and agile experience.
🌎 - Country
United Kingdom
💱 - Currency
£ GBP
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💰 - Day rate
520
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🗓️ - Date
April 9, 2026
🕒 - Duration
More than 6 months
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🏝️ - Location
Hybrid
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📄 - Contract
Inside IR35
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🔒 - Security
Unknown
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📍 - Location detailed
Bromley, England, United Kingdom
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🧠 - Skills detailed
#Monitoring #Scrum #Unix #Oracle #React #Automation #Python #REST (Representational State Transfer) #Scripting #SQL (Structured Query Language) #Integration Testing #Computer Science #Programming #Shell Scripting #Agile #Process Automation #Deployment
Role description
Job Detils:
Role Name : Python Developer
Type : Contract – Inside IR35
Location : Bromley (BR1 1LR), UK
Hybrid/Remote : Hybrid – 3 days per week onsite
Start Date : ASAP
Duration : 1 to 2 Year
Job Description:
• This is a unique and exciting opportunity for a dynamic, enterprising mid-level developer to join the fastest growing area in Equities Derivatives Technology and contribute to the continuing buildout of technology and process automation solutions to enable significant SN and SP business growth.
The successful candidate will
• Collaborate with other team members, platform teams, sales, trading, structuring, operations to achieve a collective result.
• Help build applications, services and tools that drive end to end automation, continuous monitoring, exception alerting, and metrics gathering to aid SN/SP decision-making.
• Optimize Treasury workstream, with a view to increasing STP Rates into Treasury and supporting additional attributes requested by different Treasury Teams.
The ideal candidate will possess
• 7+ year of technology development experience and specifically 3+ years of experience in development of front-office equities derivatives systems.
• Ability to define relevant areas of the roadmap and articulate the vision to senior stakeholders, product owners and teams.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, interpersonal skills and demonstrate the capability for juggling multiple competing priorities.
• Candidates will be proficient in software design focused on a cross-language REST based n-tier architecture and executed using agile methodologies (Scrum, Test Driven Development, unit/integration testing, pair programming, etc.). The successful candidate will be comfortable driving design and architecture, rationalizing business requirements and mentoring less experienced developers. There will be significant interaction with senior developers across other work streams as we integrate an increasingly complex product set. Responsibilities will include but not be limited to the following:
ROLE / RESPONSIBILITIES
• Develop a thorough understanding of our entire technology stack
• Design and develop new features within existing Python services; create new services to expand the overall framework
• Contribute to future design and architecture
• Plan work in an agile manner with other team members
• Write acceptance tests in coordination with QA
• Provide L3 user support
• Communicate with our business and platform partners
• Improve and develop our CI pipeline and deployment strategies
REQUIRED SKILLS:
• 7+ year of technology development experience and specifically 3+ years of experience in development of front-office equities derivatives systems. (Previous experience of working with SN and SP is a plus.)
• Computer science or equivalent degree
• Demonstrable experience of having designed and developed complex server-side functionality in Python
• SQL - preferably Oracle
• Shell scripting and basic Unix knowledge desirable
• Proficient in writing unit, integration, and acceptance tests
• Comfortable in an agile working environment
• Self-starter and proactive
DESIRED SKILLS:
• Experience with modern web UI technologies; HTML5, React, RESTful services, Websockets
• Knowledge of Structured Products (Notes, Warrants, Certificates)
BUSINESS KNOWLEDGE
• Equity Derivatives
• Regional variations of Products and Trading
• SP and SN is a plus
Job Detils:
Role Name : Python Developer
Type : Contract – Inside IR35
Location : Bromley (BR1 1LR), UK
Hybrid/Remote : Hybrid – 3 days per week onsite
Start Date : ASAP
Duration : 1 to 2 Year
Job Description:
• This is a unique and exciting opportunity for a dynamic, enterprising mid-level developer to join the fastest growing area in Equities Derivatives Technology and contribute to the continuing buildout of technology and process automation solutions to enable significant SN and SP business growth.
The successful candidate will
• Collaborate with other team members, platform teams, sales, trading, structuring, operations to achieve a collective result.
• Help build applications, services and tools that drive end to end automation, continuous monitoring, exception alerting, and metrics gathering to aid SN/SP decision-making.
• Optimize Treasury workstream, with a view to increasing STP Rates into Treasury and supporting additional attributes requested by different Treasury Teams.
The ideal candidate will possess
• 7+ year of technology development experience and specifically 3+ years of experience in development of front-office equities derivatives systems.
• Ability to define relevant areas of the roadmap and articulate the vision to senior stakeholders, product owners and teams.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, interpersonal skills and demonstrate the capability for juggling multiple competing priorities.
• Candidates will be proficient in software design focused on a cross-language REST based n-tier architecture and executed using agile methodologies (Scrum, Test Driven Development, unit/integration testing, pair programming, etc.). The successful candidate will be comfortable driving design and architecture, rationalizing business requirements and mentoring less experienced developers. There will be significant interaction with senior developers across other work streams as we integrate an increasingly complex product set. Responsibilities will include but not be limited to the following:
ROLE / RESPONSIBILITIES
• Develop a thorough understanding of our entire technology stack
• Design and develop new features within existing Python services; create new services to expand the overall framework
• Contribute to future design and architecture
• Plan work in an agile manner with other team members
• Write acceptance tests in coordination with QA
• Provide L3 user support
• Communicate with our business and platform partners
• Improve and develop our CI pipeline and deployment strategies
REQUIRED SKILLS:
• 7+ year of technology development experience and specifically 3+ years of experience in development of front-office equities derivatives systems. (Previous experience of working with SN and SP is a plus.)
• Computer science or equivalent degree
• Demonstrable experience of having designed and developed complex server-side functionality in Python
• SQL - preferably Oracle
• Shell scripting and basic Unix knowledge desirable
• Proficient in writing unit, integration, and acceptance tests
• Comfortable in an agile working environment
• Self-starter and proactive
DESIRED SKILLS:
• Experience with modern web UI technologies; HTML5, React, RESTful services, Websockets
• Knowledge of Structured Products (Notes, Warrants, Certificates)
BUSINESS KNOWLEDGE
• Equity Derivatives
• Regional variations of Products and Trading
• SP and SN is a plus






