Senior Software Engineer Python GCP FastAPI
Senior Software Engineer / Lead Developer (Python GCP FastAPI) London / WFH to 120kAre you a skilled Python Developer with leadership experience?
You could be progressing your career at a well-funded and profitable FinTech start-up. As a Senior Software Engineer your role will blend technical leadership and software engineering, giving you the opportunity to guide a talented team while remaining closely involved in architecture, design and delivery. You'll play a key role in driving engineering standards, mentoring developers and helping the team tackle complex technical challenges across a modern Python based platform.
Collaborating with Product, Engineering and business stakeholders, you'll influence technical direction, lead the delivery of new capabilities and contribute to the evolution of a platform that supports critical financial services. The environment is collaborative, fast-moving and well suited to engineers who enjoy balancing strategic thinking with hands-on problem solving.
You'll join a profitable, well funded business with ambitious growth plans, meaningful technical challenges and the opportunity to make a lasting impact on both the technology platform and the engineering culture.
Location / WFH:You'll join colleagues in the Central London office with flexibility to work from home twice a week in a hybrid model.
About you:
You're an experienced Python Developer with a strong knowledge of software engineering best practices and full SDLC experienceYou have a good knowledge of cloud based services (they use GCP but AWS or Azure experience is fine)You have experience of building APIs, ideally FastAPI experienceYou have a good knowledge of CI/CD, testing and deploymentYou have a thorough understanding of Computer Science fundamentals such as OOP, Data Structures, Design Patterns, AlgorithmsYou have team leadership experience, happy to mentor and develop others as well as provide 1-2-1s and performance reviewsYou're collaborative and pragmatic with great communication skillsYou're degree educated in a STEM discipline, having achieved a 2.1 or aboveWhat's in it for you: As a Senior Software Engineer you will earn a competitive salary (to 120k) plus pension and other benefits.
Apply now to find out more about this Senior Software Engineer / Lead Developer (Python GCP FastAPI) opportunity.