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About Us Fideres delivers effective economic analysis and testimony, turning data into courtroom advantage. As global litigation experts, we help law firms secure new cases and offer unbiased, conflict-free insights for complex and innovative disputes. Driven by rigorous analysis, we empower justice—for all—from case strategy to victory. By dedicating ourselves solely to litigation-based economic analysis, we can provide truly unbiased assessments and maintain our commitment to objectivity. Our Competition litigation consulting team has provided expert opinions on major antitrust legal actions against Big Tech (including Apple, Amazon and Facebook), Big Pharma, Big Finance and Big Agriculture. Meanwhile our original and innovative investigations into river sewage and Covid-19 have led to national press coverage. Our Financial and Securities Litigation team has worked on many of the most significant global cases involving securities fraud, market manipulation and financial cartels of the past decade, contributing expert opinions, and advising global law firms, institutional investors and regulators. About this Role As a Senior Software Engineer, you will apply experienced hands-on technical knowledge, vision and an innovative mindset to help us expand, build and maintain the data infrastructure and software libraries needed to support the quantitative research of our economists.   You will have experience gathering requirements and contributing to sprint planning.   We make use of kanban and sprint cycles to plan and stay on top of output. Our target stack relies heavily on Python, containerisation, infrastructure as code, CI/CD and the Azure cloud. We work across the full spectrum of data sourcing and ETL to front-end delivery. Projects areas include the front office and internal tooling. Our short term goals include migrating on-prem tooling to cloud-native infrastructure, improving our API infrastructure and development platform tooling to enable fast, frictionless deployment of new projects.   This role will be fixed term for 6 to 12 months, depending on the successful candidate's preference, with the possibility of extension. The position is based in our London office. Key Accountabilities Some notable responsibilities will include:   Planning and execut ion. Breaking project work down and able to accurately estimate task effort.    Work collaboratively  with our  economists  to  build and develop  tools and systems to support our quantitative research   Developing and deploying API services   Designing and developing web scraping infrastructure   Code design and review feedback for economists and junior developers   Coach quantitative  economists   and  junior  developers , collecting  user feedback, and suggesting features/updates   Contribute to growing engineering standards and practices    Contributing to technical, client-facing projects, as an example by managing ETL process and/or optimizing algorithm performance for analysis   Contribute to the team ownership of production services, troubleshooting where necessary    Own technical direction, comfortable making architectural decisions, leading project delivery   Key Skills and Attributes The successful candidate will have: A keen interest or background in financial markets and/or economics, and a strong belief in fair and transparent markets   A strong record of academic achievement with a relevant degree (computer science, economics or finance)   Responsive to stakeholder needs. Has e xcellent problem-solving and quantitative skills, including the ability to disaggrega