Employment type: Permanent
Job DescriptionAs a Lead Python Developer at Fundment, you'll lead a pod of 3 - 4 engineers, including yourself, combining hands-on development (around 50% of your time) with technical leadership. You'll drive execution, uphold delivery quality, and ensure the team builds reliable, maintainable systems that serve real business needs.
You'll collaborate closely with product managers - reviewing PRDs to ensure they're clear, technically feasible, and scoped appropriately. Enabling you to produce accurate estimation and help PMs prioritise effectively. While they focus on broader coordination, you'll keep the pod aligned, focused, and delivering at a high standard.
Lead development of features and fixes, writing clean, performant, secure code aligned with business goals
Review PRDs with the PM to ensure clarity, highlight edge cases, and produce accurate estimation
Own sprint planning, and pod-level execution, including scoping, sequencing and overseeing delivery
Proactively elevate delivery risks, technical blockers or trade-offs to your Engineering Manager for input or alignment
Lead initial architecture and technical design for your pod's work, running a collaborate review process with EMs and other relevant leads before implementation
Raise team standards through mentoring, code reviews, and setting strong technical example
Ensure production readiness - triage and prioritise live issues with appropriate urgency, coordinating with App Support and escalating when needed
Coordinate rollouts with the PM and App Support, ensuring smooth deployments and follow through after release
Continuously improve local engineering practice, tooling and system resilience
Represent your pod in scrum-of-scrums and cross-pod delivery initiatives
Requirements Experience & Leadership5+ years commercial Python experience in backend systems
Experience leading a small pod or acting as tech lead in an agile environment
Strong judgement on priorities, trade-offs, and production support
Effective communicator, bridging the technical and non-technical discussions
Business focused - weighs immediate and longer-term business impact against purely technical / theoretical enhancement
Able to influence and gain trust through mentoring and unblocking
Ownership mentality - takes responsibility for pod outcomes
Experience gained in a small founder led/scaling business
Knowledge of FCA compliance/Financial Services/regulated environment preferred
Highly motivated to learn about Fundment's products
Technical Expertise:Python: FastAPI, Pydantic, SQLAlchemy, PyTest, Pandas, Numpy
Cloud:
Experience supporting production systems
Security & Compliance: Familiar with secure coding and regulated environments
ValuesCollaborative - Deliver as a team, communicate clearly, and prioritise collective outcomes
Innovative - Challenge what doesn't work, try new approaches, and keep improving
Supportive - Help your team succeed, give clear feedback, and respect people's context
Trustworthy - Follow through, be transparent, and fix what you break
Flexible - Adapt to changing needs, focus on outcomes, and protect time for deep work
Company BenefitsBe part of a modern, inclusive, high-trust engineering culture
Take ownership and ship code that directly improves client outcomes
Work with a smart, friendly team that values balance, growth, and support
Pension 6% employer contribution, minimum 2% employee contribution.
BUPA Private Health Insurance - fully paid for by the company, for you and your immediate family.
Medicash Cashplan - fully paid for by the company, for you and your immediate family.
Travel insurance - fully paid for by the company, for you and your immediate family.
Life Assurance - 4 x base salary.
Employee Assistance Programme
28 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
Paid compassionate leave - up to 5 days per year.
Enhanced paternity/maternity/adoption leave - 16 weeks at full pay after 12 months of service.
Jury service - 10 days at full pay.
Hybrid working arrangements - 3 days per week in the Fitzrovia office.