Senior Software Engineer

About the Role

The Senior Software Engineer will be a key player in a fast-growing technology platform, focusing on backend development primarily using Python. This role involves owning APIs, contributing to system design, and working in a dynamic environment that emphasizes high throughput and performance.

What You'll Do

This role sits within a team that drives their core revenue. 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.

There's an exciting launch on the horizon in a brand new region which will involve a large greenfield build.

Technical Environment

The systems challenge is real: high-throughput event-driven architecture on AWS, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis, averaging 6+ backend releases per week with a 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.

Who You Are

• Strong backend engineering experience, ideally in Python, though they'll flex for the right profile with a modern technical 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.