Full Time Senior Software Engineering Lead (Python) in healthcare at StarCompliance in York, United Kingdom, Hybrid. Apply directly through the link below.
At a glance:
* Work mode: Hybrid
* Employment: Full Time
* Location: York, United Kingdom, Hybrid
* Experience: Senior
Core stack: Product Management, Team Leadership, Microservices, System Design, Documentation, Architecture, Performance, Scalability, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Compliance, Mentoring, Feedback, Security, MongoDB, Python, Django, Flask, Azure, Kafka, SOLID, AWS, API
Is this Software Engineering Lead (Python) job remote? Yes, this position is fully remote (York, United Kingdom, Hybrid).
What skills are required? Product Management, Team Leadership, Microservices, System Design, Documentation, Architecture, Performance, Scalability, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, and more.
Role
The Software Engineering Lead (Python) is an Associate Director–level role withinStarCompliance’sR&D Engineeringorganisation, with accountability for the technical leadership and delivery ofStarCompliance’scrypto compliance product.
The crypto compliance product is a strategically important capability withinStarCompliance’semerging products portfolio,operatingin a fast-evolving regulatory, technical, and market landscape. WhileStarCompliancebroadly shares a common technology stack, this product is distinct in its primary use of Python,which this roleprovides leadership over.
This role holds end-to-end accountability for the technical health, delivery outcomes, and operational sustainability of the crypto product, including architecture, engineering practices, delivery processes, and team capability.
The Software Engineering Lead leads a small, highly skilled engineering team (typically 3–5 Software Engineers) and is accountable for how the teamoperates, how technical decisions align with business and regulatoryobjectives, and how engineering capability is built and sustained over time.
While the role requires sufficient technical depth to review designs, guide implementation decisions, and challenge approaches, success is measured through team outcomes and system quality rather than individual code contribution.
The role works closely with Product Management, Architecture, Security, Platform Engineering, and other senior technical leaders to ensure the crypto product evolves in away that is secure, scalable, compliant, and aligned withStarCompliance’sbroader SaaS strategy.
Responsibilities
* Technical Leadership & Architecture
* Own and guide the technical architecture of the crypto compliance product, ensuring it meetsStarCompliancestandards for security, scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
* Act as the primary decision-maker for technical trade-offs within the product, escalating only where decisions materiallyimpactbroaderplatformororganisationalstrategy
* Balance short-term deliveryneeds withlong-term technical sustainability.
* Provide clear technical direction on system design, service boundaries, APIs, data models, and integration patterns
* Ensure alignment withStarCompliancearchitectural principles, cloud standards, and security requirements.
* Serve as the senior technical point of contact for the crypto product
Team Leadership & Enablement
* Line-manage and lead a small development team (3–5 Software Engineers), taking accountability for team performance, delivery outcomes, and technical quality.
* Own resource deployment within the team, balancing delivery commitments, technical investment, and people development.
* Create an environment where engineers are enabled to perform at their best through clear priorities and removal of impediments.
* Coach, mentor, and develop engineers through regular feedback, guidance, and development planning.
* Foster a collaborative, inclusive, and high-trust team culture focused on ownership and continuous improvement
Delivery & Continuous Improvement
* Take accountability for the end-to-end delivery of engineering outcomes for the crypto product.
* Ensure applications and services are developed to a high standard and are fit for purpose in a regulated environment.
* Drive solutions to complex technical and delivery problems, coordinating across teams whererequired.
* Partner with Product Management to shapefeasibletechnical approaches, delivery plans, and sequencing.
* Champion modern software engineering practices including testing, documentation, and operational readiness.
* Promote security-by-design and embed secure engineering practices.
* Represent the crypto product’s technical interests in cross-engineering and architecture forums.
* Identifyand implement opportunities to improve processes, reduce risk, and increase team effectiveness
Skills and Experience
* Leadership & Management
* Proven experience leading and managing small engineering teams with accountability for outcomes.
* Strong interpersonal and communication skills, able to work effectively with engineers, product managers, and senior stakeholders.
* Experience guiding architectural decisions and setting technical direction.
* Demonstrated coaching and mentoring capability.
* Ability to align technical decisions with business and regulatoryobjectives.
* Experience building sustainable, high-performing engineering teams
* Technical
* Strong understanding of Python and modern software engineering practices.
* Experience with enterprise-scale, service-oriented or microservices-based systems.
* Solid grasp of object-oriented design and system architecture principles.
* Experience overseeing delivery of large or complex software initiatives.
* Knowledge of cloud platforms and architectures (AWS, Azurepreferred).
* Experience with API-based integrations.
* Strong security mindset, particularly in regulated environments.
* Ability toanalyserequirements and translate them into clear technical direction.
* Comfortable evaluating and adoptingnew technologieswhereappropriate
Desirable
* Experience or interest in crypto or digital assets.
* Hands-on Python experience in production environments.
* Exposure toFlask, MongoDB, Kafka, TypeScript, and AWS
* Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL, SQL Server).
* Experience with statically typed Python codebases.
* Background in financial services (traditional finance or crypto).
* Familiarity with Domain-Driven Design (DDD).
* Experience with ORM frameworks (e.g.SQLAlchemy, Django ORM)
Minimum Qualifications
* Proven experience leading or managing software engineering teams.
* Demonstrable experience providing technical leadership for complex, production-grade systems.
* Strong working knowledge of Python and modern backend development practices.
* Experience designing, delivering, or overseeing service-oriented or API-driven systems.
* Experienceoperatingin cloud-based environments (AWS or equivalent).
* Strong understanding of secure software development practices.
* Experience working in regulated or compliance-sensitive environments.
* Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
* Eligibility to passStarCompliancepre-employment screening.
Integrity and Ethics
* All StarCompliance employees are expected to commit to a high standard of personal integrity and carry out their responsibilities in an ethical manner
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