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đź’Ľ Role: Lead Python Engineer (Hands-on Team Lead)
📍 Location: London – Hybrid (3 days office / 2 days WFH)
đź’° Salary: Up to 140k base
🏦 Industry: Fintech Platform
We’re working with a profitable, high-growth UK fintech building a platform used by wealth and advisory firms to manage investment accounts, portfolios and trading workflows.
Following a recent Series C funding round, the company is scaling quickly and continuing to expand the product platform — both in terms of scale and functionality. As a result, they’re growing the engineering team and looking for a Lead Python Engineer to take ownership of a core part of the platform.
The Role
This is a hands-on technical leadership role (50-70% hands-on), leading a small backend pod while remaining closely involved in development. You’ll be responsible for building and evolving core backend systems that support investment workflows, financial data processing and trading-related operations.
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What You’ll Be Working On
- Building scalable backend services in Python
- Designing systems that process financial data and investment workflows
- Leading architecture and technical design for new features
- Running a small engineering pod and guiding delivery
- Improving reliability, performance and resilience of core systems
- Mentoring engineers and raising engineering standards across the team
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What We're Looking for
- Extensive experience with commercial Python backend development
- Experience building production backend systems
- Experience leading projects or small engineering teams
- Strong understanding of distributed systems or data-heavy platforms
- Comfortable working in a fast-moving scale-up environment
Why apply?
- Work on core financial infrastructure
- Join a profitable company with strong funding and real platform adoption
- Lead a pod while staying deeply hands-on technically
- Help shape a platform that is growing quickly in both scale and capability
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