Senior Back End Developer

Senior Backend Software Engineer (multiple vacancies) – Python | FastAPI | AWS | Microservices

💵 £70,000–95,000 base salary + Bonus

📦 Flexible benefits budget | 90 day work-from-anywhere perk

💻 Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, AWS, EKS

📍 Remote first or hybrid (London)

InsurTech | Modern, high traffic, scalable microservices development

We’ve partnered with a well known name in the insuretech space - one of the UK’s most exciting scale-ups over the past few years. .

Following a successful profitability push, they’re now entering a growth phase and expanding their product offerings.

They're building out high traffic, scalable, cloud-native, microservices using Python with FastAPI, gRPC GraphQL, AWS (EKS).

You'd work in small, product lead, rotating squads giving you exposure to multiple domains and technical challenges around developing complex, high volume, public facing applications used by many.

You’ll be joining a collaborative, product-led squad environment, rotating across business domains. This is an opportunity to gain exposure to cloud-native architecture, contribute to new platform initiatives, and accelerate your path to seniority.

With a new VP of Engineering in place and strong engineering leadership, they offer the right mix of scale-up pace, engineering maturity, and long-term growth potential.

They're looking for a number of bright, engaging Senior and Lead Software Engineers familiar with or interested in working with their tech stack.

Tech stack:

Python (FastAPI) | gRPC | GraphQL | PostgreSQL | DynamoDB | AWS | EKS | CI/CD pipelines

What you’ll be doing:

✅ Contributing to the design and development of scalable backend systems

✅ Working across rotating product squads with full domain exposure

✅ Deploying and owning your code in production (AWS EKS)

✅ Collaborating with product and engineering leads to solve complex problems

Nice to have:

🟢 FastAPI, GraphQL, gRPC

🟢 Experience with AWS and CI/CD tooling

This is a great opportunity to join a profitable, product-focused company with ambitions to scale in 2025. You’ll be surrounded by experienced engineers and given the tools to take ownership and grow your career.

Senior Backend Software Engineer (multiple vacancies) – Python | FastAPI | AWS | Microservices