Backend Python Developer

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

Job summary

A leading InsurTech company in Greater London is seeking Software Engineers to join their growing team. You will design and develop scalable backend systems and work with a modern tech stack including Python and AWS. Ideal candidates have 2-5 years of backend engineering experience and a passion for microservices. This opportunity offers a flexible benefits budget and a supportive environment for professional growth.

Benefits

Flexible benefits budget

Monthly socials

90-day work-from-anywhere perk

Qualifications

• 2-5 years' backend engineering experience, ideally in 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 code in production on AWS EKS.
• Collaborate with product and engineering leads to solve complex problems.

Skills

Python

Microservices

FastAPI

PostgreSQL

DynamoDB

AWS

Tools

AWS EKS

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

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.

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