Lead Software Engineer Python API - Fintech

Salary: GBP90000 - GBP120000 per annum + benefits

Are you a skilled backend focused Python technologist with team leadership experience? You could be progressing your career at a well‐funded and profitable FinTech start‐up.

As a Lead Software Engineer you’ll head up a small talented tech team to deliver new features and enhancements as well as some refactoring work, contributing to the core banking platform that integrates with major players such as HSBC. There’s a relatively young codebase and lots of new projects to get stuck into.

You’ll be collaboratively problem solving in a hands‐on role with approximately a 50/50 split between architecture / design and people management. You’ll set the standards and mentor more junior developers, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and self‐development.

You’ll join colleagues in the Central London office with flexibility to work from home twice a week in a hybrid model.

• Experienced Software Engineer with Python expertise and strong knowledge of software engineering best practices and full SDLC experience.
• Team leadership experience, happy to mentor and develop others as well as provide 1‐2‐1s and performance reviews.
• Good knowledge of cloud based services (they use GCP but AWS or Azure experience is fine).
• Experience of building APIs, ideally FastAPI.
• Good knowledge of CI/CD, testing and deployment.
• Thorough understanding of Computer Science fundamentals such as OOP, Data Structures, Design Patterns, Algorithms.
• Collaborative, pragmatic with great communication skills.
• Degree educated in a STEM discipline, having achieved a 2.1 or above.

Competitive salary (up to £120k) plus pension and other benefits.

We are an equal opportunities employer. We never discriminate based on race, colour, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. The clients we work with share our values.