Lead Software Engineer

I'm hiring! Lead Software Engineer | Java | AWS | AI | System Architecture | Kafka | 2 days a week in London| £100,000 + Benefits Love leading engineers, but not ready to hang up your coding gloves?I'm partnering with a brilliant FinTech business doing something a little different and building a product that actually let's people experience what it’s actually like to work in Trading, Banking and Quantitative Finance.They’re growing, evolving their platform, and looking for a Lead Software Engineer who still really likes being a software engineer.What will you actually do?✨Write Java/Spring Boot code most weeks✨Lead, support and unblock a small engineering team✨Make architecture decisions alongside a hands-on CTO and Principal Engineer✨Get stuck into distributed systems, event-driven services, APIs and AWS✨Make CI/CD, testing and releases better (and ideally less exciting)✨Work across Docker, React/TypeScript and real-time technology✨Experiment seriously with AI coding agents — they’re already part of how this team builds softwareNecessary experience with:🔥Java/ Spring Boot🔥AWS 🔥Kafka 🔥System Design & Microservice Architecture🔥AI tooling experience Desirable:🔥React 🔥GDPR Knowledge | Experience working in the finance sectorThis would be a great role for anyone who knows Java inside and out, had led engineers formally or unofficially and likes solving technical problems. This is a brilliant role for someone who has opinions about good software architecture and can explain why, can actually use AI coding tools and enjoys the autonomy of figuring things out.A financial background is not necessary, but an interest into how markets work would be great.✨Experience working in a smaller team or startup/ scale environment would be desirable.£100,000 + Benefits and a flexible working environment within a genuinely tech for good business.Sounds up your street? Drop me your CV and contact number to beya@sr2rec.co.uk to discuss further.