Lead Software Engineer (Python)

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 initiative

 

Nice to have:

🟢 FastAPI, GraphQL, gRPC

🟢 Experience with AWS and CI/CD tooling

 

This is a great opportunity to join a profitable, product-focused company with ambitions to scale in 2025. You'll be surrounded by experienced engineers and given the tools to take ownership and grow your career.

 

 

Lead Software Engineer - Python | FastAPI | AWS | Microservices

Burns Sheehan Ltd will consider applications based only on skills and ability and will not discriminate on any grounds.