Summary
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A rapidly growing financial technology organization is seeking a lead Python engineer to build secure, high-performance distributed backend systems. The role includes architectural ownership, engineering standards, and team mentorship.
Highlights
High-impact leadership role focused on backend architecture, scalable systems, and mentoring engineers.
Description
Lead Python Engineer – £140k + Benefits – Hybrid – FinTech / Distributed Systems
Explore Group has partnered with a high-growth UK FinTech scaling a proprietary, cloud-native financial platform.
Backed by solid commercial growth and strong market adoption, they are modernising core transaction and workflow infrastructure—building high-throughput, automated, and secure distributed backend systems designed to handle complex, real-time data flows.
To support the next phase of their technical evolution, they are seeking a Lead Python Engineer to step into a high-impact technical role, helping drive backend reliability and mentoring engineers as the platform scales.
The Role:
Take ownership of key architectural components, delivering resilient backend services that meet strict performance, security, and low-latency standards.Act as a technical leader across the engineering team, championing clean architecture, rigorous testing, and robust engineering standards.Collaborate closely with cross-functional product, operational, and commercial teams to translate complex domain requirements into elegant, scalable services.Identify performance bottlenecks, optimise system throughput, and troubleshoot distributed production challenges.Lead and manage a pod to ensure engineering initiatives are hit while still maintaining a hands-on approach.
Key Requirements:
6+ years of commercial software engineering experience, with 4+ years dedicated to Python in production environments.
FastAPI exp desired.Proven track record architecting and scaling resilient backend systems within FinTech, banking, or similarly regulated, data-intensive domains.Strong mentoring and technical leadership capabilities, with deep experience elevating code quality via rigorous peer reviews and automated CI/CD pipelines.Commercial experience managing an engineering pod of 3+ engineers.
GCP experience in a commercial capacity is advantageous, but other clouds are welcome.Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a relevant quantitative discipline (or equivalent practical experience).
If you would like to be considered for this position, please apply directly or get in touch at lewis.dorling@exploreltd.com.
