Senior Python Software Engineer

Burns Sheehan; Sheffield; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A dynamic technology firm in the UK is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to drive technical direction in a product-led squad environment. You will develop scalable, high-traffic applications using Python and FastAPI, contribute to cloud-native architecture, and lead rotations across business domains. Ideal candidates have substantial experience with microservices and AWS. This position offers opportunities for significant exposure and growth within a rapidly expanding InsurTech company.

Benefits

Flexible benefits

90 day work-from-anywhere perk

Bonus and Stock options

Qualifications

• Proven experience in building scalable backend systems.
• Strong knowledge of cloud technology and microservices architecture.
• Ability to lead product development in a squad environment.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable backend systems.
• Work across rotating product squads with full domain exposure.
• Deploy and manage your code in production using AWS EKS.
• Collaborate with product and engineering leads to solve complex challenges.

Skills

Python

FastAPI

gRPC

AWS

Tools

PostgreSQL

DynamoDB

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Senior+ Software Engineer - Python | FastAPI | AWS

💵 £90,000-120,000 + Bonus and Stock

📦 Flexible benefits | 90 day work-from-anywhere perk

💻 Python, FastAPI, gRPC, AWS

📍 Remote first or hybrid (London)

InsurTech | high traffic, scalable, event-driven, microservices development

We’ve partnered with one of the UK’s most exciting scale-ups in the Insuretech space over the past few years.

Following a successful profitability push, they’re now entering a growth phase and expanding their product offering.

As a Lead / Senior+ Software Engineer you'll help drive technical direction and architecture within a 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.

They're building out high traffic, scalable, cloud-native, microservices using Python with FastAPI, gRPC GraphQL, AWS (EKS).

You'd lead a rotating squad with exposure to multiple domains and technical challenges around developing complex, high volume, public facing applications used by many.

This opportunity blends scale-up security with engineering maturity, and long-term growth potential.

Tech stack

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

What you’ll be doing

• Owning 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 other product and engineering leads to solve complex problems