Backend Python Developer

Company: Burns Sheehan
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Location: London
Job Description:

Software Engineer (multiple vacancies) – Python | FastAPI | AWS | Microservices

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

Flexible benefits budget | Monthly socials | 90 day work-from-anywhere perk

Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, AWS, EKS

Central London, 1 day a week

InsurTech | Microservices | Greenfield Development

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:

  • Python (FastAPI, Starlette)
  • gRPC
  • GraphQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • DynamoDB
  • AWS
  • EKS
  • CI/CD pipelines

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.

Software Engineer (multiple vacancies) – Python | FastAPI | AWS | Microservices

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

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Posted: September 21st, 2026