Senior/Lead Python Engineer Offline
We’re looking for a hands-on Senior Backend Engineer to join a long-term product collaboration with an established European investment company. The company has been successfully managing multi-billion euro assets for 30+ years and is now actively investing in AI-driven innovation. You’ll work closely with a highly professional internal team — analysts, portfolio managers, and risk experts — to bring modern, impactful solutions into their everyday operations.
What You’ll Be Working On:
- AI-powered internal platform already in production
- Integration of LLM models for internal use
- Decision-making automation workflows
- Chat-based assistants for analysts and project managers
- End-to-end ownership: from architectural design to production deployment
You’ll be deeply involved in technical decision-making and have a direct impact on the business, with no intermediaries — close collaboration with the client team is part of your daily routine.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead project planning and translate high-level ideas into executable technical work
- Stay hands-on while supporting and mentoring a small engineering team
- Design and develop scalable APIs using Python and AWS Lambda
- Define and manage OpenAPI contracts for backend services
- Build and evolve PostgreSQL data models on AWS RDS
- Maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform (Lambda, ALB, RDS, S3)
- Create efficient CI/CD pipelines via GitLab
- Integrate Amazon Bedrock for AI workflows (e.g., document summarization)
- Participate in sprint planning, code reviews, and stakeholder syncs
- Advocate for best practices in testing, security, and collaboration
Requirements:
- 5+ years of Python 3 experience
- Solid experience with FastAPI or similar frameworks
- Production experience with AWS Lambda and API Gateway/ALB
- Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL in cloud environments
- Terraform expertise for cloud infrastructure provisioning
- Familiarity with OpenAPI/Swagger
- Proficient in Git workflows and GitLab CI/CD
- Confident with Amazon S3 in production
- Comfortable working in Agile teams and cross-functional settings
- Strong communication skills and fluent spoken English
Nice to Have:
- Experience leading technical projects or small teams
- Experience with Amazon Bedrock or other LLM integrations
- Background in fintech or asset management is a plus
- Knowledge of AWS monitoring tools (e.g., CloudWatch, X-Ray)
- Understanding of serverless security best practices
- Previous consultancy or client-facing experience
What we offer:
- Long team focus: we create an environment of transparent communication, and minimal bureaucracy, which leads to long-term relationships.
- Development of niche expertise: we are working in several niches, such as FinTech, healthcare, and logistics. Therefore, our employees can develop their own expertise in these domains.
- Continuous learning: we create employee development plans / personal roadmaps /quick promotion processes.
- Internal career development: 80% of our current executives were promoted to those positions within S-PRO. We encourage initiative. If a person wants to set new challenges and grow, we will definitely support them.
Benefits and perks:
- Flexible schedule.
- Remote work model.
- Medical insurance
- Paid vacations
- Paid Sick-leaves.
- Paid State holidays.
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