Python Developer / Team Lead - FinTech
Client Server
Overview
In this role you will lead a small engineering team while hands-on in Python development. You will contribute to a core banking platform and drive feature delivery, refactoring, and architectural decisions. You’ll balance coding with people management, mentoring, and establishing engineering standards. The work blends cloud-based services, API design, and SDLC discipline to scale a fintech platform. This is a hybrid London-based role with a strong impact on product delivery and team growth.
Pay / Benefits- pension
- hybrid work model
- central London office
- competitive salary up to 120k
- other benefits
- Lead a small tech team to deliver features and perform refactoring on the core banking platform
- Contribute hands-on to architecture and design decisions with a 50/50 split between technical work and people management
- Set engineering standards and mentor junior developers
- Conduct 1-2-1s and performance reviews
- Collaborate on API development and integration with external partners (e.g., HSBC)
- Promote continuous improvement and professional development within the team
- Support CI/CD processes, testing, and deployment activities
- Experience as a Python developer with full SDLC knowledge
- Proven team leadership and mentoring abilities
- Knowledge of cloud services (GCP preferred; AWS or Azure acceptable)
- Experience building APIs, ideally with FastAPI
- Strong understanding of CI/CD, testing, and deployment
- Solid grasp of CS fundamentals (OOP, data structures, design patterns, algorithms)
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills
- Degree in a STEM discipline with 2.1 or higher
- collaborative
- pragmatic
- strong communication
- Python
- FastAPI
- Cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure)
Reference: WJ-747_30156001