Lead Software Engineer (Python)

In this Lead Python Engineer role, you will shape the US investment infrastructure for a profitable fintech scale-up by designing and building key systems. You’ll lead a small pod while staying hands-on in architecture, design, and development to support US markets. You’ll influence technical direction and scale the platform, collaborating with Product and Engineering leadership. This is a chance to drive high-impact financial workflows at pace in a growing, impact-focused team.

• bonus
• equity

• Lead a pod of 3–4 engineers while remaining hands-on in the codebase
• Design and build core financial infrastructure for US investment products
• Develop systems for trading, execution, settlement, brokerage, portfolio, and investment workflows
• Drive architectural decisions and technical direction within the team
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering leadership to shape solutions and delivery plans
• Mentor engineers through code reviews and best practices
• Balance rapid delivery with long-term scalability, maintainability and reliability
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of engineering standards, tooling and processes

• Strong commercial experience building backend systems with Python
• Previous experience leading engineers or acting as a technical lead
• Strong understanding of architecture, system design and software engineering best practices
• Experience building and supporting production-grade applications
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, high-ownership environment

• leadership
• communication
• stakeholder management
• Python
• FastAPI
• Pandas