Senior Python Developer in CANADA

Senior Python Developer– Equity Derivatives Analytics

Location: Mississauga, ON (hybrid/3 days a week)

Overview:

The Equities technology team is seeking a collaborative, hands-on Python Lead developer to build quantitative analytics and trading signals for front office business desks. This is a rapidly growing and high-priority area, and the growth in users and use-cases has warranted new investment from the Equities Cash, Derivatives and Prime businesses. The platform capabilities will be expanded to include a fast timeseries data store, scalable real time streaming pipelines and an event driven back tester.

Responsibilities:

As a Lead Developer, you are required to:

• Work closely with quants and traders on multiple trading desks to design, develop, deploy and support new innovative business solutions
• Work within a global team in an agile environment, so strong communications skills are very important

Requirement:

You are:

• Experience developing/designing high quality data-driven enterprise-wide systems
• Python data engineering stack: Pandas/Parquet/FastAPI/Jupyter/Airflow/Streamlit/Ray
• Experience with high-performance data stores and query engines like Trino/Snowflake
• Experience with real-time streaming analytics tech like Kafka / Flink
• Experience with cloud container technologies, e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, or Kubernetes

It would be great if you also had:

• Experience with financial concepts such as Equities / Options / Futures
• Full stack HTML5 Web development experience
• Generative AI Prompt engineering knowledge

We can offer you:

• A highly competitive compensation and benefits package
• A multinational organization with 55 offices in 20 countries and the possibility to work abroad
• Laptop and a mobile phone
• 15 days of paid annual leave (plus national holidays)
• A comprehensive insurance plan including: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and long-/short-term disability
• RRSP with employer’s contribution
• A higher education certification policy
• Comprehensive Relocation Expense Coverage
• Commuter benefits
• Extensive training opportunities, focused on skills, substantive knowledge, and personal development
• On-demand Udemy for Business for all Synechron employees with free access to more than 5000 curated courses
• Coaching opportunities with experienced colleagues from our Financial Innovation Labs (FinLabs) and Center of Excellences (CoE) groups
• Cutting edge projects at the world’s leading tier-one banks, financial institutions and insurance firms
• A flat and approachable organization
• A truly diverse, fun-loving and global work culture

SYNECHRON’S DIVERSITY & INCLUSION STATEMENT

Diversity & Inclusion are fundamental to our culture, and Synechron is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiative ‘Same Difference’ is committed to fostering an inclusive culture – promoting equality, diversity and an environment that is respectful to all. We strongly believe that a diverse workforce helps build stronger, successful businesses as a global company. We encourage applicants from across diverse backgrounds, race, ethnicities, religion, age, marital status, gender, sexual orientations, or disabilities to apply. We empower our global workforce by offering flexible workplace arrangements, mentoring, internal mobility, learning and development programs, and more.

All employment decisions at Synechron are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to the applicant’s gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.