Lead Software Engineer (Python, FinTech)

Lead Software Engineer / Developer London / WFH to £120k

Are you a skilled a backend focussed Python technologist with team leadership experience?

You could be progressing your career at a well-funded and profitable FinTech start-up.

As a Lead Software Engineer you'll head up a small, talented tech team to deliver new features and enhancements as well as some refactoring work, contributing to the core banking platform which integrates with major players such as HSBC. There's a relatively young codebase and lots of new projects to get stuck into.

You'll be collaboratively problem solving in a hands-on role with approximately 50/50 split between architecture / design and people management. You'll set the standards and mentor more junior developers, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and self development.

Location / WFH:

You’ll join colleagues in the Central London office with flexibility to work from home twice a week in a hybrid model.

About you:

• You're an experienced Software Engineer with Python expertise and a strong knowledge of software engineering best practices and full SDLC experience • You have team leadership experience, happy to mentor and develop others as well as provide 1-2-1s and performance reviews • You have a good knowledge of cloud based services (they use GCP but AWS or Azure experience is fine) • You have experience of building APIs, ideally FastAPI experience • You have a good knowledge of CI/CD, testing and deployment • You have a…