Financial Markets / Risk Technology Engineer

Financial Markets / Risk Technology Engineer

• Investment Banking | Trading, Risk & Capital Markets Technology
• The Mission
• West Code is hiring experienced engineers for technology projects across investment banking, capital markets and risk. We are looking for people who combine strong software engineering with real understanding of financial-markets environments, where data quality, performance, resilience and business-domain context are critical.

Depending on the project, you may work on trading and execution platforms, pricing, market data, position and exposure services, risk engines, post-trade processing or regulatory technology.

What You’ll Work Onbackend services supporting trading, risk or capital-markets workflowsreal-time and event-driven systemsmarket data, positions, exposures or pricing-related serviceshigh-throughput data processing and integration pipelines

APIs and integrations across front-, middle- and back-office systemssystems where correctness, resilience and auditability are essentialtechnical design and architecture decisions with senior engineers and domain stakeholdersproduction support and continuous improvement of business-critical platforms

TechnologyWe are particularly interested in engineers working with Java, Kotlin, Python or C++, depending on the project. Typical environments also include Kafka, SQL, distributed systems, cloud platforms, Kubernetes and modern observability tooling.

Must Have5+ years of professional software engineering experiencestrong backend engineering skills in Java, Kotlin, Python and/or C++experience with distributed, event-driven or high-volume systemssolid understanding of production reliability and failure handlinggood SQL and data-handling skillsgood Englishability to work with both technical and business stakeholderscommercial experience in investment banking, capital markets, asset management, hedge funds or financial risk technology

• Strong Advantageequities, fixed income, FX, credit or derivativesmarket data or pricing systemstrade lifecycle and post-trade processingmarket, counterparty or credit riskpositions, P& L, exposure or limit systemslow-latency or high-throughput architectures
• Kafka and event-driven architectures
• Kubernetes and AWS / Azure / GC
• Pregulatory reporting or other regulated capital-markets systems
• Working ModelB2B cooperationremote or hybrid work depending on the projectprojects with banks, investment firms, asset managers and other financial institutionsinternational teams and senior stakeholders
• English used on most projectsB2B Rate180–240 PLN/h + VAT
• Final rate depends on technology, seniority, financial-markets expertise and project scope.

Why West Code

West Code builds engineering teams around ownership and strong technical delivery, not just individual roles. We are developing a dedicated business unit focused on technology projects for banks, investment firms and other financial-services organisations.

These are projects where understanding the business domain can matter as much as knowing the technology. You’ll work in senior environments on systems tied directly to trading, risk and financial decision-making, with strong technical ownership rather than purely ticket-driven delivery.

If you have serious engineering experience in financial markets or risk technology, apply and let’s talk.