Senior Python Software Engineer

Burns Sheehan • london, england • Posted May 27, 2026

Position Overview

Senior+ Software Engineer - Python | FastAPI | AWS

£90,000-120,000 + Bonus and Stock

Flexible benefits | 90 day work-from-anywhere perk

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...