Python Developer

Location

New York City - 3 Days Onsite Required

What is the position?

My client is seeking to hire a hands-on Python Developer to join its Equities Technology team in New York, NY. 

This role is critical to expanding the firm’s LLM-enabled workflow application, across research and content workflows. The developer will deliver Python services, APIs, integrations, and automation supporting summarization, Q&A, earnings workflows, and governed content generation.

You will be working closely with product owners, developers, compliance partners, and business stakeholders, this individual will help scale the platform with strong governance, auditability, and production reliability.

This is a high-visibility, hands-on role ideal for individuals who combine strong engineering fundamentals with experience building LLM-enabled or data-intensive applications in financial services.

Primary Responsibilities

• Partner with product, business, and technology stakeholders to translate the workflow application requirements into technical designs, Python services, and production features.
• Design, build, and maintain backend services, APIs, and workflow orchestration for summarization, prompt-driven drafting, Q&A, and earnings/event workflows.
• Integrate internal content and third-party market/research data to support grounded application behavior.
• Develop LLM-enabled workflows and evaluation checks that improve output quality, consistency, traceability, and user productivity.
• Build compliance and governance controls including Restricted List validation, supervisory review support, audit logs, and approval workflows.
• Support multi-LLM experimentation and provider integration to optimize quality, latency, and cost by use case.
• Collaborate with UX, QA, and support teams to manage testing, release readiness, debugging, and continuous improvement of the application.
• Contribute as a trusted engineer across architecture, prototyping, and production delivery, balancing speed of iteration with secure, maintainable code.

Specific Qualifications

• 5-10 years of experience in Python development, backend engineering, or workflow/application development within financial services or another complex environment.
• Strong proficiency in:
• Python (APIs, automation, data processing, testing).
• SQL (querying, validation, relational data concepts).
• REST/API integration with internal platforms and third-party data providers.
• Experience building data-intensive or LLM-enabled applications, including prompt orchestration, output validation, or workflow automation.
• Familiarity with Databricks or comparable data platforms, plus modern software engineering practices such as version control, testing, and release management.
• Understanding of application controls, auditability, and secure development in a regulated business environment.
• Strong communication skills and proven ability to balance rapid prototyping with disciplined production delivery while partnering across business and technical teams.