Lead Python Developer - Fintech
Client Server · London, United Kingdom ·
- Seniority
- Lead
- Category
- Software engineering
Overview
In this role you lead and contribute as a software engineer within a well-funded FinTech, guiding a talented team while staying close to architecture and delivery. You’ll shape engineering standards, mentor engineers, and tackle complex technical challenges on a modern Python platform. You’ll collaborate with Product, Engineering and business stakeholders to steer technical direction and deliver new capabilities that support critical financial services. The environment is collaborative, fast-moving and presents meaningful opportunities to impact technology and engineering culture.
Pay / Benefits- pension
- hybrid/remote work
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to the development team
- Influence architectural direction and oversee delivery of new capabilities
- Collaborate with Product, Engineering and business stakeholders to align on technical solutions
- Maintain and uplift engineering standards across the SDLC
- Contribute hands-on in architecture, design and problem solving on a Python-based platform
- Experienced Python Developer with strong software engineering practices and full SDLC experience
- Team leadership experience including mentoring, 1-2-1s and performance reviews
- Knowledge of cloud services (GCP preferred; AWS/Azure acceptable)
- Experience building APIs, ideally FastAPI
- Strong understanding of CI/CD, testing and deployment
- Solid CS fundamentals (OOP, data structures, design patterns, algorithms)
- Collaborative, pragmatic communicator
- STEM degree with 2.1 or above
- collaborative
- pragmatic
- great communication
- Python
- FastAPI
- Cloud services (GCP; AWS/Azure)