Software Engineer - Risk

About Us

Life Trading Pty Ltd is a growing proprietary trading company with offices in Australia and the UK. We are driven by a mission to achieve success in trading by leveraging cutting-edge technology and embodying our core values. Our team consists of passionate experts and we believe in accountability and excellence from all of our employees.

Our culture is relaxed prioritising trust fairness and respect. We believe in enjoying work feeling rewarded for dedication and having time for life outside of work.

About the Role

Youll be joining the Back Office and Risk team as a Software Engineer Risk building tools and systems that power critical control functions across risk finance and compliance.

These systems must run accurately reliably and with minimal manual oversightthey sit at the core of our post-trade operations and will increasingly take on more automated decision-making and monitoring responsibilities.

This role bridges the gap between software engineering and financial risk. Youll work closely with traders and the operations teams to ensure real-time insights robust risk analytics and clean structured data for reporting and research.

You may also play a role in providing curated datasets to trading teams for use in research or directly in production trading systems.

Your Mission at Life Trading

Development:

• Build and maintain tools and systems to support post-trade operations and risk management.
• Design and implement ETL/ELT pipelines for internal and external data.
• Aggregate reconcile and analyse trading data from multiple sources.
• Calculate and explain P&L and various risk metrics across a range of trading strategies.
• Maintain high test coverage and enforce software quality through automation.

Analysis & Automation:

• Collaborate with operations teams on ad-hoc analysis and tasks.
• Identify opportunities to automate manual workflows and streamline recurring processes.

Data & Reliability:

• Ensure the integrity and high availability of critical data systems.
• Monitor and proactively resolve data quality issues.

Risk Systems:

• Lead the design and development of firm-wide risk dashboards and tooling.
• Work with risk and trading teams to define and evolve system requirements.
• Continuously improve support for risk limits analytics and reporting functions.

Support:

• Provide ongoing support for production systems including on-call when required.
• Improve monitoring and observability across the risk platform.
• Keep architectures up to date with best practices and scalability needs.

Other:

• Apply and uphold company values and policies.
• Ensure compliance with relevant exchange regulations.
• Perform additional duties as needed.
• Report to the Head of Back Office and Risk.

What Were Looking For

• Degree in Maths Engineering Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong programming skills in Python and SQL.
• Advanced skill and proficiency with Microsoft Excel
• Solid understanding of financial markets and trading concepts.
• Knowledge of market risk and how its quantified.
• A data-focused mindset and strong analytical skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Curiosity and passion for learning new tools and techniques.

Bonus Points For

• Experience working in a small cross-functional team.
• Ability to work independently and drive projects end to end.
• Performance optimisation and profiling skills.
• Familiarity with distributed systems or real-time data pipelines.
• Experience with visualisation tools such as Grafana Jupyter or Excel.
• Understanding of time-series data and streaming technologies.

A Bit About the Team

Youll join a tight-knit high-impact team responsible for safeguarding and streamlining the firms post-trade environment. Collaboration is key and the systems you build will enable our traders and operators to move fast stay compliant and scale confidently.

Benefits

At Life Trading we recognise that our people are our most valuable asset which is why we offer a range of benefits to support your career growth personal well-being and work-life balance:

• Competitive Salary: Reflecting your skills and experience.
• Flat Management Structure: Open communication and the ability to make an impact from day one.
• Work-Life Balance: Flexible arrangements including hybrid work.
• Health and Wellbeing Initiatives: Access to mental health support and wellness programmes.
• Anniversary Leave: Celebrate your milestones with extra paid leave.
• Social Events: Regular team-building and social gatherings.
• Paid Parental Leave: Support for growing families.
• Professional Development: Ongoing learning opportunities including training and industry events.
• Employee Recognition Programme: Celebrate exceptional performance at both individual and team levels.

Join us and help shape the tools and systems that underpin risk reliability and success at Life Trading.