Full Stack Engineer (London Area)

Full Stack Developer (Python / React) – Greenfield Compliance Platform

Location: London (Hybrid)

Salary: Competitive | Full-time | Permanent

Are you a passionate Full Stack Developer with a backend focus (70/30 split) ready to build innovative, secure, and scalable fintech applications from the ground up?

Join a pioneering internal innovation team delivering a next-generation compliance platform designed for global financial operations. This is a greenfield project with long-term backing and exciting plans for AI and ML integration in future development phases.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Building a brand-new cloud-native platform with modular architecture for transaction monitoring, client profiling, and analytics.
• Developing responsive frontend interfaces using React and TypeScript , based on detailed FIGMA designs.
• Creating scalable microservices and APIs using FastAPI , Pydantic , SQLAlchemy , and Poetry .
• Designing and optimizing database schemas and async APIs for high throughput.
• Collaborating with DevOps engineers on containerisation and deployment pipelines (Kubernetes, KEDA).
• Ensuring high standards of code quality, performance, and documentation throughout.

Tech Stack:

• Frontend : React, TypeScript
• Backend : Python (FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, Pydantic, Alembic, Mypy, Ruff, Pytest)
• Databases : PostgreSQL / SQL Server / MySQL
• DevOps : Docker, Kubernetes, Azure, KEDA

About You:

• 1–4 years’ experience in a full-stack or backend-heavy development role.
• Strong knowledge of Python, async programming, microservices, and cloud-native design.
• Experience with clean code, testing (PyTest, TypeScript testing a bonus), and code reviews.
• Enthusiastic about scalable software design, documentation, and learning new technologies.
• A minimum 2:1 degree in a STEM discipline (or equivalent hands-on experience).
• Curious, proactive, and collaborative team player who thrives in a fast-paced environment.

Why Join?

• Work on impactful greenfield software with tangible outcomes.
• Be part of a small, focused innovation team exploring cutting-edge solutions in fintech.
• Flexibility to work from home or central London office.
• Career development in a high-growth environment with future-facing tech.

Ready to join a team where your ideas and code will shape the future of compliance tech?

Apply now and help build something truly transformative.