Back End Developer

We're working with a fast-growing fintech that's building the technology powering international payments for digital banks and financial institutions across APAC. Following significant growth, they're looking to hire a Backend Team Lead to help scale both their platform and engineering team. This is an opportunity to join an ambitious, product-led business at an exciting stage of its journey, where you'll have genuine influence over technical direction, architecture and engineering culture. The Role: As Backend Team Lead, you'll combine hands-on software engineering with technical leadership, helping shape a modern Python-based microservices platform while mentoring and supporting a high-performing engineering team. You'll work closely with senior leadership to deliver scalable financial infrastructure, balancing architecture, coding, delivery and people development. What you'll be doing: Leading a backend engineering team developing mission-critical payment infrastructure.Driving architecture decisions across a modern microservices environment.Building scalable backend services using Python and FastAPI.Mentoring engineers and encouraging technical growth.Breaking down complex technical projects into achievable deliverables.Collaborating with Product and Engineering leadership to deliver new platform capabilities.Remaining hands-on while providing technical guidance and leadership. What we're looking for: Strong commercial Python backend development experience.Strong knowledge of FastAPI (or aiohttp), SQLAlchemy or Django.Excellent PostgreSQL and microservices experience.Commercial GraphQL experience.Previous experience within FinTech, ideally payments, banking, cross-border payments or neobanking.Startup or scale-up experience with a track record of building and shipping products.Interest in AI and emerging technologies, particularly practical applications or agentic AI.Strong communication skills and a collaborative, low-ego approach.