Senior Associate Software Engineer- Python

Location: GLASGOW, LANARKSHIRE, United Kingdom

About Us

Are you ready to shape the future of financial control technology? At VCGTech, you’ll collaborate with talented engineers to deliver impactful solutions that drive transparency and trust in global markets. You’ll have the opportunity to grow your skills, work with cutting-edge technology, and make a real difference in how we value and manage risk. Join a team where your ideas matter and your contributions are valued.

As a Python Software Engineer in the VCGTech team, you will design and deliver robust financial control systems that support our mission-critical Independent Revaluation Infrastructure System (IRIS). You’ll work closely with asset class and platform teams to build scalable, secure, and innovative solutions. You will help ensure the accuracy and integrity of our balance sheet, collaborating with experts across technology and finance. Your work will directly impact how we manage valuation, risk, and regulatory compliance.

 

Job Responsibilities

• Design and develop Python applications within a large mono-repo using proprietary workflows
• Implement independent price verification and valuation adjustment workflows across asset classes
• Develop consensus pricing solutions integrating with external market data providers
• Configure distributed compute, job scheduling, analytics integrations, and cloud storage pipelines
• Write and maintain comprehensive unit, baseline, and parameterized tests
• Investigate and remediate security vulnerabilities; support audit remediation efforts
• Operate with a dry-run-first, confirm-before-modify, audit-everything approach on production systems
• Design and maintain AI developer tooling, including prompt engineering and LLM-assisted code generation

 

Required qualifications, skills, and capabilities

• Proficiency in Python, object oriented programming, context managers, generators, and functional programming pattern
• Experience with test-driven or test-heavy development, including unit, integration, and regression testing
• Understanding of security best practices, including input validation and vulnerability remediation
• Experience with agentic AI and prompt engineering, including LLM-based code development
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Background in financial services, derivatives pricing, market data, or valuation concepts
• Experience with distributed compute or job scheduling systems
• Knowledge of reactive or event-driven programming

About Us

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

About the Organization

Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we’re setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.Join us to build production-critical Python platforms that power independent valuation and financial control across global markets.