Lead Software Engineer

Lead Software Engineer — Python / AWSLondon Victoria | HybridUp to £140,000 baseI’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-onThis 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.