Senior Python Engineer

Senior Python Engineer | FinTech | UK Based- Fully remote | Outside IR35

We're partnering with an innovative and rapidly growing fintech organisation that is transforming the way small businesses manage their finances

.As a Senior Python Engineer, you'll play a key role in designing, building, and scaling backend services within a modern microservices architecture. You'll collaborate with product, data, web, and mobile teams to deliver robust solutions while mentoring fellow engineers and driving engineering excellence

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What You'll Be Doing

  • Designing, building, owning and scaling cloud-native backend services
  • Working across the full software development lifecycle in an agile environment
  • Collaborating with Product Managers and stakeholders to shape technical solutions
  • Building and integrating RESTful APIs
  • Contributing to architecture decisions and technical best practices
  • Mentoring engineers and supporting team growth
  • Ensuring systems are reliable, scalable, secure, and maintainable

What We're Looking for:

  • Strong commercial experience with Python as your primary language
  • Solid understanding of software engineering principles (SOLID, testing, clean code)
  • Experience with AWS cloud services
  • Hands-on experience with Django, FastAPI and/or Flask
  • Strong REST API development and integration experience
  • Experience working within Agile/Scrum teams
  • Excellent communication and problem-solving skills

Nice to Have

  • Event-driven architecture and microservices experience
  • Message queues and asynchronous systems
  • Salesforce integration experience

Technology Stack

Python | AWS (Lambda, Fargate, EKS, SQS, SNS, SES, S3) | PostgreSQL | BigQuery | Terraform | Sentry

Job Details

Company
Levy Global
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Hybrid / Remote Options
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