Lead Software Engineer

Thrivve By Intelletec — United Kingdom · Posted ~22 hours ago

Lead Full-time Hybrid

Skills

Python AWS Architecture System design APIs Microservices Distributed systems PostgreSQL DynamoDB Technical leadership Generative AI

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Summary ✨ AI‑Generated

A Lead Software Engineer is sought to take ownership of architecture and engineering across a sophisticated data-intensive platform. You will use expert Python and cloud skills to design APIs, microservices, and distributed systems while guiding major technical initiatives and solving demanding scale and performance challenges.

Highlights

Take significant technical ownership across a sophisticated data and analytics platform. The role offers lead-level responsibility, challenging large-scale engineering problems, deep cloud work, and opportunities to shape architecture and distributed systems.

Description

Lead Software Engineer — Python / AWS London Victoria | Hybrid Up to £140,000 base I’m working with a fast-growing fintech/data business building a specialist technology platform for the global credit markets. Their platform combines large-scale financial datasets, advanced analytics and Generative AI to help some of the world’s leading investment firms analyse complex financial information and make faster, better-informed decisions. The technology processes hundreds of thousands of official financial documents and structures data across thousands of bond and loan issuers globally, creating some genuinely interesting engineering challenges around scale, performance and data. They’re now looking for a Lead Software Engineer to take significant technical ownership across the platform. What they’re looking for: Expert-level PythonDeep AWS experienceStrong architecture & system design skillsAPIs, microservices & distributed systemsPostgreSQL / DynamoDBExperience leading major technical projectsMentoring engineers & raising engineering standardsSomeone who still wants to be genuinely hands-on This is a technical leadership role rather than a move into pure management — you’ll have real influence over architecture and engineering direction while remaining close to the code. Interested? Drop me a message and I’ll share more details.