đź’Ľ Role: Lead Python Engineer (Hands-on Team Lead)
📍 Location: London – Hybrid (3 days office / 2 days WFH)
đź’° Salary: Up to 140k 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.