Owen Thomas | B Corp™
Backend Engineer, Python, Backend-for-Frontend | AI-Driven FinTech, Series C | 1-2 Days Hyrbid, London | Up to £115,000+ Equity & Benefits
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Backend Engineer, Python, Backend-for-Frontend | AI-Driven FinTech, Series C | 1-2 Days Hyrbid, London | Up to £115,000+ Equity & Benefits
Backend Engineer, Python, Backend-for-Frontend | AI-Driven FinTech, Series C | 1-2 Days Hybrid, London | Up to £115,000+ Equity & Benefits
About the Company
We are working with a highly successful, fast-scaling FinTech platform that is fundamentally transforming data infrastructure and workflow automation across global financial markets.
- They have proven product-market fit, their AI-powered platform is already trusted by over 300+ companies worldwide, including global banks, private equity firms, and asset managers.
- The business is heavily internationalising the core product and building new ones to help spearhead this next chapter of hyper-growth.
- They are heavily investing into building a mobile application completely from scratch and with that a backend system to support it.
About The Role
You will be joining a company with extremely experienced backend engineering capabilities, however will be the first engineer focusing on a completely greenfield project (The mobile application)
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- You will own the Backend-for-Frontend (BFF) layer that powers the mobile application.
- This role sits at the intersection of mobile, platform, AI, and data engineering.
- You will be creating mobile experiences which will enable businesses to make quick real-time decisions within the financial markets which is crucial for success.
- You will work closely with mobile, content, AI, and data to ensure personalisation and reliable experiences on mobile.
Requirements For The Role
- Extensive experience building backend systems in Python for mobile applications
- Strong experience with FastAPI
- Deep expertise in distributed systems, APIs, data pipelines, complex relational domains, and entity resolution/mapping.
- Proven experience identifying high performers and promoting them through the business.
- High proficiency in Python (or similar backend languages), alongside familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS) and containerisation (Kubernetes).
- A strong product and customer-centric mindset, comfort driving clarity through ambiguity, and a history of end-to-end technical project ownership.
- Strong communications skills
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What Can They Offer You
- Salary of up to £140,000
- Pension scheme up to 7%
- Private medical
- 1-2 days per week in the office and work abroad for up to 3 months per year
If you are interested in the Backend Engineer, Python, Backend-for-Frontend | AI-Driven FinTech, Series C | 1-2 Days Hybrid, London | Up to £115,000+ Equity & Benefits, apply here today and the team at Owen Thomas Recruitment Limited (OT Group) will give you a call if you are a good fit!
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