Lead Software Engineer Python API
Client Server · London, United Kingdom ·
- Seniority
- Lead
- Category
- Software engineering
Overview
In this Lead Software Engineer role, you’ll stay hands-on while guiding a technical team to build a complex SaaS calculation platform for cyber security insurance. You’ll shape architecture, define requirements, and align engineering work with business goals in a fast-growing, global environment. You’ll mentor engineers, enforce quality and CI/CD practices, and collaborate with Product Owners to prioritise work. This is a chance to influence technical direction and deliver scalable, robust software. You’ll work from London or hybrid with regular office days.
Pay / Benefits- salary up to 110k
- bonus
- 25 days holiday
- Private Medical Insurance (including dental and optical cashback)
- Life Insurance
- Income Protection Pension
- Provide technical leadership and hands-on contribution to design and implementation
- Define technical requirements and ensure alignment with business objectives
- Lead architectural decisions and technical designs in collaboration with stakeholders
- Facilitate code reviews, maintain coding standards, and promote quality assurance
- Drive development efficiency initiatives (e.g., CI/CD) and best practices
- Mentor and guide small to medium technical teams
- Coordinate with Product Owners to prioritise tasks and allocate resources
- Proven experience leading and mentoring small to medium technical teams
- Strong Python backend development skills
- Experience building FastAPI applications
- Good knowledge of Azure
- Experience handling data at scale
- Strong SQL skills (PostgreSQL, SQL Server) with Azure Databricks experience highly preferred
- Solid CS fundamentals (data structures, design patterns, OOP)
- Collaborative and pragmatic communication skills
- collaborative
- pragmatic
- strong communication
- Python
- FastAPI
- Azure