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Senior Python Engineer / Lead Python Engineer
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Senior Python Engineer / Lead Python Engineer
We’re working with a high growth UK fintech that is modernising the infrastructure behind wealth management and financial advice.
The business has built a proprietary technology platform that enables financial advisers to manage investments, portfolios and client accounts through a modern, technology led infrastructure. Having scaled significantly in recent years, they are continuing to invest heavily in their engineering organisation and are looking for experienced Python Engineers across Senior to Lead level.
This is an opportunity to join a technically ambitious team working on high scale financial technology, where engineering is central to the product and wider business.
The Role
As a Senior or Lead Python Engineer, you’ll work on the core platform that underpins the company’s products and services. You’ll have significant ownership over technical decisions, system design and the development of new capabilities, working closely with Product, Engineering and other teams across the business. Depending on seniority, you’ll also have the opportunity to influence engineering standards, architecture and technical direction, as well as mentor and support other engineers.
What you’ll be doing
- Design, build and maintain scalable backend services and APIs using Python
- Work on core financial and investment platform functionality
- Develop robust, reliable and secure systems handling sensitive financial data
- Contribute to architectural and technical decisions across the platform
- Work closely with Product, Engineering and other stakeholders to deliver new functionality
- Improve the scalability, performance and reliability of existing systems
- Write high quality, well tested and maintainable code
- Contribute to engineering standards, practices and technical strategy
- At Lead level, provide technical leadership and mentorship across the engineering team
- Help shape the future architecture and technical direction of the platform
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What we’re looking for
We’re interested in engineers who have strong experience building production grade Python systems, particularly within financial services or other technically complex environments.
You’ll ideally have:
- Strong commercial experience with Python
- Experience building backend services, APIs or distributed systems
- Experience within financial services, fintech, banking, investments or wealth management
- Strong understanding of software engineering principles and system design
- Experience working with relational databases, ideally PostgreSQL
- Experience developing and maintaining cloud based applications
- A strong focus on testing, reliability and code quality
- Experience working within a modern engineering environment
- A degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technical discipline
- An engineering degree from a strong UK university would be a particular plus
- The ability to take ownership of complex problems and work autonomously
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Fintech or financial services experience is a major plus, particularly if you’ve worked on platforms involving investments, trading, payments, financial data or other highly regulated systems.
For Lead level, we’re particularly interested in engineers who have experience with:
- Technical leadership and architectural decision making
- Mentoring and developing engineers
- Driving engineering standards and best practices
- Designing systems at scale
- Working closely with Product and senior stakeholders
Why join?
- Join a high growth fintech with significant backing and ambitious growth plans
- Work on a proprietary technology platform at the heart of the business
- Opportunity to work on complex problems across financial technology, data and scalable systems
- Significant technical ownership and influence
- Opportunity to progress into greater technical leadership
- Collaborative, product focused engineering culture
- Central London office, 3 days per week
- Competitive salary and benefits package
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