Role: Lead Python Engineer (Hands-on Team Lead) Location: London – Hybrid (3 days office / 2 days WFH) Salary: Up to 130k base 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. Following a recent Series C funding round, the company is scaling quickly and continuing to expand the product platform — both in terms of scale and functionality. 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. The Role This is a hands-on technical leadership role (50-70% hands-on), leading a small backend pod while remaining closely involved in development. You’ll be responsible for building and evolving core backend systems that support investment workflows, financial data processing and trading-related operations. What You’ll Be Working On Building scalable backend services in Python Designing systems that process financial data and investment workflows Leading architecture and technical design for new features Running a small engineering pod and guiding delivery Improving reliability, performance and resilience of core systems Mentoring engineers and raising engineering standards across the team What We're Looking for 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 Comfortable working in a fast-moving scale-up environment Why apply? Work on core financial infrastructure Join a profitable company with strong funding and real platform adoption Lead a pod while staying deeply hands-on technically Help shape a platform that is growing quickly in both scale and capability Feel free to contact Chris Williams with any questions.