Senior Python Software Engineer

Company: Burns Sheehan
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Location: Greater London
Job Description:

Senior+ Software Engineer – Python | FastAPI | AWS

£90,000-120,000 + Bonus and Stock

Flexible benefits | 90 day work-from-anywhere perk

Remote first or hybrid (London)

InsurTech | high traffic, scalable, event-driven, microservices development

We’ve partnered with one of the UK’s most exciting scale-ups in the Insuretech space over the past few years. Following a successful profitability push, they’re now entering a growth phase and expanding their product offering.

As a Lead/Senior+ Software Engineer you’ll help drive technical direction and architecture within a product-led squad environment, rotating across business domains. This is an opportunity to gain exposure to cloud-native architecture, contribute to new platform initiatives, and accelerate your path to seniority.

They’re building out high traffic, scalable, cloud-native, microservices using Python with FastAPI, gRPC GraphQL, AWS (EKS). You’d lead a rotating squad with exposure to multiple domains and technical challenges around developing complex, high volume, public facing applications used by many.

This opportunity blends scale-up security with engineering maturity, and long-term growth potential.

What you’ll be doing:

  • Owning the design and development of scalable backend systems
  • Working across rotating product squads with full domain exposure
  • Deploying and owning your code in production (AWS EKS)
  • Collaborating with other product and engineering leads to solve complex problems

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

  • Information Technology

Industries

Insurance, Technology, Information and Media, Software Development

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Posted: December 15th, 2025