Backend Python Developer

Burns Sheehan; London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading InsurTech company in London is seeking Software Engineers for multiple positions. This role involves working with an innovative tech stack including Python and AWS, focusing on developing scalable backend systems in a collaborative environment. Join a company with strong engineering leadership and growth opportunities, contributing to a transition from monolithic to microservices-based architecture.

Benefits

Flexible benefits budget

Monthly socials

90 day work-from-anywhere perk

Qualifications

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

Skills

Python

Microservices

Excellent communication

Initiative

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.

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.