Senior Software Engineer (Remote/Python)

Burns Sheehan
UK
15 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Compensation
£90,000.0 - £110,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) Amazon Web Services Distributed Systems Python (Programming Language) PostgreSQL Redis Backend Event Driven Architecture Apache Kafka Api Design

Job description

Senior Software Engineer (Remote/iGaming) - Python

Location: Remote-first, UK-based

Salary: £90,000-110,000

Heavily Funded: Series C-funded, fast-scaling consumer tech

️ Technical Environment: Python, API Development, Distributed Systems, AWS

We’re partnered with a fast-growing, heavily funded iGaming platform as they scale multiple engineering teams.

Their ambition is to disrupt a bloated, legacy-dominated industry through a genuinely exceptional user experience.

This is a business that owns its entire tech stack end-to-end. No white-label shortcuts. That means the engineering team has the freedom to build in a customer and product driven environment and to build it right.

This role sits within a team that drives their core revenue. This hire will be the technical anchor on the backend side of the squad. You’ll own the APIs that power the customer-facing product, be involved from problem statement through to release, and play a direct role in shaping how the domain evolves as they migrate from a Python monolith into isolated, resilient services.

There’s an exciting launch on the horizon in a brand new region.

The systems challenge is real: high-throughput event-driven architecture on AWS, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis, averaging 6+ backend releases per week with a future target of 20+ - fast but safe is their culture. They’re also experimenting with Rust for performance-critical workloads and are early-but-genuine adopters of AI tooling across the engineering org.

Small squads, high trust, high ownership. This isn’t a place for engineers who want to be handed a ticket and told what to build.

Requirements

  • Strong backend engineering experience, ideally in Python, though they’ll flex for the right profile with a modern stack background
  • Proven track record building and owning production-grade APIs with performance in mind
  • Comfortable contributing to systems design and architectural decisions, not just implementation
  • Product-curious: you care that your work reaches users and has an impact, not just that the code is clean
  • Experience with distributed systems or event-driven architectures is a strong positive

Senior Software Engineer (Remote/iGaming) - Python

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

Requirements

  • Strong backend engineering experience, ideally in Python, though they’ll flex for the right profile with a modern stack background
  • Proven track record building and owning production-grade APIs with performance in mind
  • Comfortable contributing to systems design and architectural decisions, not just implementation
  • Product-curious: you care that your work reaches users and has an impact, not just that the code is clean
  • Experience with distributed systems or event-driven architectures is a strong positive

Senior Software Engineer (Remote/iGaming) - Python

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