Backend Python Developer

£75,000-£100,000 base salary + equity at a household name

Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, AWS, EKS

Central London, 1 day a week

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:

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.

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

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.

£75,000-£100,000 base salary + equity at a household name

Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, AWS, EKS

Central London, 1 day a week

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:

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