Senior Python Engineer - Microservices, REST APIs, AWS

Morson Edge; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK-based Digital Bank is seeking a Senior Python Engineer to join a core engineering team focused on Back End development for their high-performance payments and fraud detection platforms. This role requires strong hands-on Python skills, expertise in AWS, and experience in Agile environments. You will work closely with business stakeholders to gather requirements and contribute to the build-out of cloud-native services. Ideal candidates should have a background in regulated environments and a drive for delivering robust, well-tested code.

Qualifications

• Experience with high-performance customer-facing applications.
• Background in highly regulated environments.
• Ability to engage directly with business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the ongoing build-out of cloud-native services.
• Work through design, build, DevOps, and deployment.
• Gather requirements directly from business stakeholders.

Skills

Strong hands-on Python engineering skills

Expertise in AWS cloud-native engineering

Experience in highly Agile TDD environments

Analytical mindset

Job description

Senior Python Engineer - Analyst Developer, Microservices, Rest APIs, AWS, Cloud-native Engineering, Payments, FinCrime, Retail Banking, S3, CloudWatch, GIT, TDD, Agile, DevOps

A Senior Python Engineer is sought by a leading UK-based Digital Bank to join a core engineering team responsible for Back End development across their payments, fraud detection/prevention and FinCrime platforms, targeting for standardised infrastructure and code that be easily deployed across different product lines.

The team is currently made up of 3 people and work end-to-end across the full SDLC, gathering requirements directly from business stakeholders and then working through design/architecture, build, DevOps and through to deployment and post-implementation support. As such you will need to come from a similar environment and be comfortable working in environment where requirements and priorities can regularly shift based on business need.

From a technical perspective, everything is written and built in Python following event-driven microservices architecture and deployed as cloud-native services on AWS (particularly making use of S3, Step Functions and CloudWatch amongst the wider AWS tool suite). The team are highly agile, with a strong focus on well-written, highly tested robust code and automated deployment via a mature and efficient DevOps setup.

Joining the team, you will contribute to the ongoing build out of these services as the bank continues to grow and scale.

To be successful, you will demonstrate:

• Strong hands-on Python engineering skills, with experience working on high-performance customer-facing applications
• Expertise in AWS cloud-native engineering
• Experience in highly Agile TDD environments, working across the full SDLC delivering new features from initial request/conception through to implementation
• A background in highly regulated environments with well documented development practises for audit purposes
• An analytical mindset with the ability to engage directly with the business to flesh out incomplete requirements