Role: Lead Python Engineer (Hands-on Team Lead) Location: London – Hybrid (3 days office / 2 days WFH) 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.
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.
You’ll be responsible for building and evolving core backend systems that support investment workflows, financial data processing and trading-related operations.
Building scalable backend services in Python Designing systems that process financial data and investment workflows Improving reliability, performance and resilience of core systems 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 Work on core financial infrastructure Help shape a platform that is growing quickly in both scale and capability…