Backend Python Developer

Burns Sheehan; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology recruiting firm is seeking a Software Engineer in Central London. The role involves designing scalable backend systems and working collaboratively in product squads. Ideal candidates have 2-5 years of experience, preferably with Python and microservices. The company offers flexible benefits, a chance to work on exciting projects, and a growth-oriented environment.

Benefits

Flexible benefits budget

Monthly socials

90 day work-from-anywhere perk

Qualifications

• 2-5 years' backend engineering experience, ideally Python.
• Experience in microservices or modern service architecture.
• Excellent communication skills and willingness to take initiative.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the design and development of scalable backend systems.
• Work across rotating product squads with full domain exposure.
• Deploy and own your code in production (AWS EKS).
• Collaborate with product and engineering leads to solve complex problems.

Skills

Backend engineering experience

Python

Microservices

Excellent communication skills

Initiative

Tools

AWS

CI/CD pipelines

FastAPI

PostgreSQL

DynamoDB

Job description

Overview

Software Engineer (multiple vacancies) - Python | FastAPI | AWS | Microservices

£65,000-85,000 base salary + equity at a household name

Flexible benefits budget | Monthly socials | 90 day work-from-anywhere perk

Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, AWS, EKS

Central London, 1 day a week

InsurTech | Microservices | Greenfield Development

We\'ve partnered with a well known name in the insuretech space - one of the UK\'s most exciting scale-ups over the past few years.

Following a successful profitability push, they\'re now entering a growth phase and expanding their product offerings. There\'s also ongoing work rewriting their Django monolith into modern microservices/FAST API based architecture.

You\'ll be joining a collaborative, product-led squad environment, rotating across business domains. This is an opportunity to gain exposure to cloud-native architecture, contribute to new platform initiatives, and accelerate your path to seniority.

With a new VP of Engineering in place and strong engineering leadership, they offer the right mix of scale-up pace, engineering maturity, and long-term growth potential.

They\'re looking for a number of bright, engaging software engineers familiar with or interested in working with their tech stack.

Tech stack

Python (FastAPI, Starlette) | gRPC | GraphQL | PostgreSQL | DynamoDB | AWS | EKS | CI/CD pipelines

What you\'ll be doing

• Contributing to the design and development of scalable backend systems
• Working across rotating product squads with full domain exposure
• Deploying and owning your code in production (AWS EKS)
• Collaborating with product and engineering leads to solve complex problems

Ideal Requirements

• 2-5 years\' backend engineering experience (ideally Python, but open to other languages)
• Experience in microservices or modern service architecture
• Excellent communication skills and willingness to take initiative

Nice to have

• FastAPI, GraphQL, gRPC
• Experience with AWS and CI/CD tooling

This is a great opportunity to join a profitable, product-focused company with ambitions to scale in 2025. You\'ll be surrounded by experienced engineers and given the tools to take ownership and grow your career.

Software Engineer (multiple vacancies) - Python | FastAPI | AWS | Microservices

Burns Sheehan Ltd will consider applications based only on skills and ability and will not discriminate on any grounds.