Senior Software Engineer – Equity Derivatives Technology

Company Overview:

Business Integration Partners (BIP) is Europe’s fastest growing digital consulting company and is on track to reach the Top 20 globally by 2030. With a growing presence across the United States—including New York, Charlotte, Chicago, and Houston—BIP operates at the intersection of business strategy, technology, and data to deliver impactful solutions for clients.

With more than 6,000 professionals worldwide, BIP partners with organizations across Financial Services, Insurance, Payments, and other industries. Our capabilities span Data & AI, Cybersecurity, Risk & Compliance, Digital Transformation, and Change Management. We combine deep industry expertise with engineering excellence to help clients modernize platforms, unlock data insights, and drive innovation.

As part of our continued expansion in the United States, BIP is strengthening its Capital Markets technology practice. Our teams work closely with trading, risk, and front-office technology organizations to modernize critical platforms, enhance analytics capabilities, and support complex financial product ecosystems.

About the Role:

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer with strong Python engineering expertise and front-office platform experience to support the development of next-generation technology for structured products and equity derivatives.

This role sits within a strategic platform modernization initiative focused on structured notes and equity-linked products, supporting capabilities across pricing, trade capture, execution workflows, and lifecycle management.

The successful candidate will collaborate closely with front-office stakeholders, technology teams, and global engineering groups to design scalable solutions and help unify fragmented technology systems into a modern, enterprise platform.

Key Responsibilities:

Platform Engineering & Architecture

• Design and develop backend services supporting structured products workflows within a front-office environment
• Contribute to architecture decisions for a distributed trading technology platform
• Help define scalable data models for complex financial instruments using structured schemas
• Ensure systems are built with strong performance, scalability, and reliability standards

Full Stack Development

• Develop backend services primarily using Python or other object-oriented languages
• Collaborate with UI developers building React-based applications and ensure well-defined API integrations
• Design and maintain RESTful APIs, ensuring proper versioning and compatibility across services
• Build services that integrate seamlessly with front-office tools used by trading and structuring teams

Platform Modernization & Best Practices

• Contribute to modernization initiatives consolidating fragmented legacy systems
• Establish and promote engineering best practices, testing standards, and CI/CD workflows
• Participate in system design discussions and architectural planning
• Identify potential technical risks and propose practical solutions

Front-Office Collaboration

• Partner closely with sales, trading, and structuring teams to gather requirements and translate them into technology solutions
• Support business-critical applications that directly enable trading and pricing workflows
• Provide production support for front-office platforms, including troubleshooting and issue resolution

Required Skills and Experience:

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Strong expertise in Python or another object-oriented programming language
• Experience designing and implementing REST APIs and distributed services
• Hands-on experience with object-oriented design principles and modern development practices
• Experience working with automated testing frameworks and CI/CD pipelines
• Ability to work in fast-paced environments supporting business-critical systems
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate with both technical teams and business stakeholders

Preferred Experience:

• Experience working in capital markets or financial services technology
• Exposure to structured products, structured notes, or equity derivatives
• Familiarity with front-office trading systems and workflows
• Experience with event-driven architectures or messaging systems
• Background mentoring engineers or leading technical initiatives
• Comfort working in Linux-based development environments

\*\*The base salary range for this role is $140,000 - $200,000\*\*

Benefits:

• Choice of medical, dental, vision insurance.
• Voluntary benefits.
• Short- and long-term disability.
• HSA and FSAs.
• Matching 401k.
• Discretionary performance bonus.
• Employee referral bonus.
• Employee assistance program.
• 11 public holidays.
• 20 days PTO.
• 7 Sick Days.
• PTO buy and sell program.
• Volunteer days.
• Paid parental leave.
• Remote/hybrid work environment support.

For more information about BIP US, visit https://www.bip-group.com/en-us/.

Equal Employment Opportunity:

It is BIP US Consulting policy to provide equal employment opportunities to all individuals based on job-related qualifications and ability to perform a job, without regard to age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, creed, national origin, disability, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or marital status, and to maintain a non-discriminatory environment free from intimidation, harassment or bias based upon these grounds.

BIP US provides a reasonable range of compensation for our roles. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, education, level of experience, and knowledge.