Lead Software Engineer (Python)

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Lead Software Engineer - Python | FastAPI | AWS | Microservices 💵 £90,000-120,000 + Bonus and Equity at a household name 📦 Flexible benefits budget | Monthly socials | 90 day work-from-anywhere perk 💻 Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, AWS, EKS 📍Central London, 1 day a week (will consider once quarterly) 🧑‍💻 InsurTech | Microservices | Greenfield Development We've partnered with a well known name in the insuretech space - one of the UK's most exciting scale-ups over the past few years.. Following a successful profitability push, they're now entering a growth phase and expanding their product offerings. There's also ongoing work rewriting their Django monolith into modern microservices/FAST APi based architecture. You'll be joining a collaborative, 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. With a new VP of Engineering in place and strong engineering leadership, they offer the right mix of scale-up pace, engineering maturity, and long-term growth potential. They're looking for established Seniors Software Enngineers or Lead Developers with coaching and mentoring skills and/or the ability to influence the design and architecture of high volume, customer facing applications. Tech stack: Python (FastAPI, Starlette) | gRPC | GraphQL | PostgreSQL | DynamoDB | AWS | EKS | CI/CD pipelines What you'll be doing: ✅ Contributing to 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 product and engineering leads to solve complex problems Ideal Requirements 🔹 5+ years backend engineering experience (ideally Python, but open to other languages) 🔹 Experience in microservices or modern architectural style 🔹 Excellent communication skills and willingness to take in

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