Python SDET Fixed Income & Swaps Post-Trade (5 roles total)

Worldwide | Oct. 6, 2026

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Company: Axiom Path

Country: Worldwide

Type: Remote

Employment: Contract

Description:

Be Part Of A High-Performing Team

Join a specialized capital-markets quality engineering team responsible for technology supporting sophisticated Fixed Income and derivatives transactions. The group works closely with developers, business analysts, and trading-domain specialists to ensure critical swaps workflows operate accurately across interconnected back-office platforms.

This environment combines practical Python development with deep financial-product knowledge. Engineers work directly with transaction workflows involving confirmations, clearing, payments, settlements, regulatory processes, and other downstream functions supporting institutional derivatives activity.

What's In Store For You

Engagement: W2 only (no C2C/1099).
Hybrid position in Charlotte, North Carolina, with three days onsite each week.
Remote work is not available.
Relocation candidates can be considered when they are fully committed to relocating.
Contract-to-convert opportunity within a strategic capital-markets technology organization.
Exposure to complex Fixed Income and swaps processing across mission-critical financial systems.

How You Will Make An Impact

Build and maintain Python automation supporting Fixed Income and swaps applications.
Work within existing automation frameworks and expand automated test coverage.
Validate swaps through confirmation, clearing, payments, settlement, and regulatory workflows.
Test deal-ticket attributes and ensure transaction information moves accurately through downstream systems.
Perform defect investigation, triage, and root-cause analysis in collaboration with developers and business analysts.
Validate changes across complex back-office trade-processing workflows.
Gather requirements through discussions with technical and business stakeholders when formal documentation is limited.
Help strengthen quality practices throughout the software development lifecycle.

Requirements

Do you bring proven success in Python quality engineering and swaps processing?

5 7+ years of quality engineering, SDET, automation, application development, or related technology experience.
Strong practical Python programming capability.
Hands-on Fixed Income and swaps/derivatives experience.
Experience testing or supporting back-office trade-processing applications.
Ability to explain a swap transaction from origination through confirmation, clearing, payment, and settlement.
Knowledge of actual swap deal-ticket attributes, including notional, fixed and floating legs, reference indexes, spreads, dates, payment schedules, and currency.
Experience with automation frameworks and automated test development.
Understanding of defect management and defect triage.
Knowledge of QA/QE practices and how quality integrates into application-development delivery.
Strong communication skills and willingness to proactively gather information from developers and business analysts.
Ability to work independently without relying on highly detailed instructions.
Experience with Murex, Sophis, Summit, Charles River, Aladdin, or comparable proprietary derivatives platforms is valuable.