Senior Software Engineer Python GCP FastAPI
Summary
Senior Software Engineer / Lead Developer at a profitable FinTech start-up in Central London (hybrid, two WFH days per week). Blends team leadership, mentoring and engineering standards with hands-on architecture and delivery on a Python platform built on GCP and FastAPI. Pays £90k–£120k per year.
Senior Software Engineer Python GCP FastAPI
London, Greater London | £90k - £120k per year
Senior Software Engineer / Lead Developer (Python GCP FastAPI) London / WFH to £120k
Are you a skilled Python Developer with leadership experience?
You could be progressing your career at a well-funded and profitable FinTech start-up.
As a Senior Software Engineer your role will blend technical leadership and software engineering, giving you the opportunity to guide a talented team while remaining closely involved in architecture, design and delivery. You'll play a key role in driving engineering standards, mentoring developers and helping the team tackle complex technical challenges across a modern Python based platform.
Collaborating with Product, Engineering and business stakeholders, you'll influence technical direction, lead the delivery of new capabilities and contribute to the evolution of a platform that supports critical financial services. The environment is collaborative, fast-moving and well suited to engineers who enjoy balancing strategic thinking with hands-on problem solving.
You'll join a profitable, well funded business with ambitious growth plans, meaningful technical challenges and the opportunity to make a lasting impact on both the technology platform and the engineering culture.
Location / WFH:
You'll join colleagues in the Central London office with flexibility to work from home twice a week in a hybrid model.
About you:
- You're an experienced Python Developer with a strong knowledge of software engineering best practices and full SDLC experience
- You have a good knowledge of cloud based services (they use GCP but AWS or Azure experience is fine)
- You have experience of building APIs, ideally FastAPI experience
- You have a good knowledge of CI/CD, testing and deployment
- You have a thorough understanding of Computer Science fundamentals such as OOP, Data Structures, Design Patterns, Algorithms
- You have team leadership experience, happy to mentor and develop others as well as provide 1-2-1s and performance reviews
- You're collaborative and pragmatic with great communication skills
- You're degree educated in a STEM discipline, having achieved a 2.1 or above
What's in it for you:
As a Senior Software Engineer you will earn a competitive salary (to £120k) plus pension and other benefits.