Lead Software Engineer

Location: London - Hybrid (3 days in office / 2 days WFH)

Industry: Fintech / WealthTech

We're working with a profitable, high-growth UK fintech that provides a platform used by wealth managers and financial advisers to manage investment accounts, portfolios, and trading workflows.

Following a recent Series C funding round, the company is continuing to scale both its team and platform. As a result, they're looking for a Lead Python Engineer to take ownership of a core area of the product while helping shape the future direction of the engineering function.

The Role

This is a hands-on technical leadership position, with approximately 50-70% of your time spent coding. You'll lead a small backend engineering pod while remaining closely involved in the design, development, and delivery of key platform capabilities.

You’ll be responsible for building and evolving backend systems that support investment operations, financial data processing, trading workflows, and platform scalability.

What You'll Be Working On

Building scalable backend services using Python

Designing systems that process financial data and investment workflows

Leading architecture and technical design for new features and products

Running a small engineering pod and helping drive delivery

Improving the reliability, performance, and resilience of core systems

Mentoring engineers and raising engineering standards across the team

What We're Looking For

Extensive commercial experience building backend systems with Python

Experience developing and operating production-grade distributed systems

Previous experience leading projects or small engineering teams

Strong understanding of scalable, data-intensive platforms

Comfortable working in a fast-paced, high-growth environment

Strong communication and stakeholder management skills

Why Apply?

Work on business-critical financial infrastructure

Join a profitable company with strong funding and genuine product-market fit

Lead a team while remaining deeply hands-on technically

Have significant influence over architecture, engineering standards, and product direction

Help shape a platform that is rapidly growing in both scale and functionality

For more information, feel free to contact Chris Williams.

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