Senior Software Engineer

About the role

Our client, a financial services firm, is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to lead complex technical initiatives and deliver scalable, secure software solutions across backend, frontend and cloud environments.

Key responsibilities

• Design and deliver complex software solutions spanning backend, frontend and cloud‑based systems.
• Drive architectural improvements to boost scalability, resilience, maintainability and performance.
• Investigate critical incidents, lead root‑cause analysis and implement preventative measures.
• Collaborate across product, design, QA and operations to ensure end‑to‑end feature delivery.
• Mentor engineers on coding standards, problem‑solving and professional development.
• Participate in technical design reviews and guide long‑term engineering decisions.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, tools and frameworks to enhance delivery efficiency.

Required profile

• Minimum 7 years of software engineering experience, including senior or lead roles.
• Strong backend development expertise with Python and frameworks such as FastAPI, Flask or Django.
• Proven experience building APIs, data models and scalable distributed systems.
• Frontend development experience with React and TypeScript.
• Hands‑on experience designing and deploying cloud‑native or serverless applications on AWS.
• Experience delivering CI/CD pipelines and supporting modern cloud infrastructure.

Required skills

• Python
• FastAPI
• Flask
• Django
• React
• TypeScript
• AWS (cloud‑native, serverless)
• CI/CD pipeline creation
• GitHub Actions or similar automation
• DevOps practices and infrastructure automation
• API development and distributed systems
• Software security principles
• Performance optimization